Idea Excursion
Technology Musings
Accessing Custom .NET Assemblies in SSIS 2008 Script Tasks
In: SSIS
14 Oct 2009If you need to access a custom .NET Assembly from an SSIS Script Task, Microsoft doesn’t make things very easy – but it’s still possible with a little setup. This is a great way to introduce custom data types or some new functionality without having to replicate that code in a new environment.
Read the rest of this entry »
- No Comments
- Tags: .NET, C#, SQL Server, SSIS, VB.NET
Fixing “passwd: Authentication token manipulation error” when changing passwords
In: Linux
11 Sep 2009I attempted to update my password on Ubuntu today and encountered a strange error. I thought I’d disseminate my solution in hopes that it saves other time. A few suggest playing with pwconvert, /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, but my solution was much simpler.
Basically, if you run passwd and receive the error,”passwd: Authentication token manipulation error”, the culprit is likely Likewise Open. Unfortunately, even having this installed — but not configured — will prevent you from using passwd to update a local users’s password. Fortunately, the fix is very easy if you don’t actually use Likewise Open – just remove it from your system with this command:
Read the rest of this entry »
- (2) Comments
- Tags: Linux, Ubuntu
VirtualBox 3.0.6 Released
In: VirtualBox
10 Sep 2009You’ve got to admit, the VirtualBox team is nothing if not consistent. Despite the complexity of a project such as theirs, the release schedule has been admirable. Major releases arrive periodically, but more importantly, all those annoying little bugs are shored up quickly. 3.0.6 marks the third bugfix release of the 3.0-series and the changelog is a bit longer than usual for such a build.
According to the VirtualBox Web Console Blog, quite a few of the fixes released are directly related to requests from that project. As noted in my preview, VirtualBox Web Console is a great idea, but is just too immature for use. With this new VirtualBox version, hopefully that problem will fix itself even faster.
Aside from Python API-replated adjustments, there’s nothing too out of the ordinary, but I see a couple things that pique my interest:
- VRDP remote USB protocol 3
- At first, I thought this had to do with USB 3.0, but it turns out, this is simply an update that “allows to send large packets as fragments” – whatever that means.
- Restricts guest RAM site to 1.5GB with 32-bit Windows hosts
- A curious inclusion. Why should it be restricted at all? According to a forum moderator, “there is no room in the 32 bits virtual address space to map the whole guest ram”. I don’t understand how this suddenly changed from prior releases.
- No Comments
- Tags: VirtualBox
Preview: VirtualBox Web Console
In: VirtualBox
27 Aug 2009Sun posted a note on the front page of the VirtualBox website noting a new project in development sure to make administrating virtual machines much simpler. The project is called VirtualBox Web Console and aims to replicate the VirtualBox console in Web 2.0 fashion. In their own words,
The mission of the VirtualBox Web Console project is very simple: implement the VirtualBox user interface using modern Web 2.0 techniques like AJAX. It will start with very little functionality but our intention is to grow this quickly into a very powerful and easy to use web interface for either a single VirtualBox host or a group of hosts.
The code is certainly its infancy and it seems that those responsible for its development plan on taking advantage of community contributions — as evidenced by being hosted on Google Code. The team has a few blog posts outs, but it’s really too early to tell how responsive they’ll be to the community at large.
Read the rest of this entry »
- No Comments
- Tags: VirtualBox
SQL Server Regular Expression CLR UDF
In: SQL Server
18 Aug 2009Face it: data cleanup is a fact of life. While SQL Server has a handful of string manipulation functions, nothing even comes close to the power of RegEx. Fortunately, by leveraging the CLR functionality in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008, we can add a host of new features, including regular expressions.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categories
- Google (6)
- Gmail (1)
- Hardware (1)
- Internet (3)
- iPhone (6)
- Linux (11)
- Mac (3)
- Microsoft (37)
- Windows (35)
- Active Directory (2)
- SQL Server (24)
- SSIS (6)
- Windows (35)
- VirtualBox (11)
- HOWTO: Sync Google Calendar on iPhone OS 3.0
- Windows 7 in VirtualBox: Shared Folders workaround
- HOWTO: Setup SQL Server Linked Server to MySQL
- Installing Windows 7 Beta 1 in VirtualBox 2.1.0
- Connecting to Oracle from SQL Server
- HOWTO: Synchronize Dropbox and ZumoDrive on Windows
- Efficiently query the DATE in DATETIME
- All About Linux Swap Part 2: Management
- Windows 7 RTM download details
- All About Linux Swap Part 3: Analysis
- Updating SSH known hosts fingerprints (WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!)
- HOWTO: Create Email Forwarders in Google Apps
- Import Excel 2007 with SQL Server Import and Export Wizard
- Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 now available
- Microsoft Office 2010 Beta posted on MSDN/TechNet
- Accessing Custom .NET Assemblies in SSIS 2008 Script Tasks
- Fixing “passwd: Authentication token manipulation error” when changing passwords
- VirtualBox 3.0.6 Released
- Preview: VirtualBox Web Console
- SQL Server Regular Expression CLR UDF
- ERNST: HOW TO SYNC MULTIPLE GOOGLE CALENDARS IN IPHONE: To show Multiple Google calendars in iPhone, ope [...]
- linuxfueled: WINDOWS 7 users read..... If your main OS is Windows 7 (the host machine) and you just cannot get [...]
- Kurt Hitchen: A friend has let me "see" there calendar in Google Calendar, but because their calendar is set to pr [...]
- bugoy8: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/nba_13_%4cos+%41ngeles+%4cakers#sports@group.v.calendar.google.c [...]
- Speaker: Wasn't able to understand how to access the shared folder in the quest OS from this tutorial. Hmmm [...]