After visiting the Nurburgring on friday, I drove off for a nightly M meeting in Antwerp. Check out the 7 pictures of 5 M3’s, A Z3M QP and Z4MR.
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Windows clients forget their domain after you reset their snapshot?
Ever run into a problem where you revert a domain member server or Windows XP domain client toa previously taken snapshot, and when trying to log on the domain, the logon fails?
I did in 2007, and never really thought of it until I ran into the following article 1006764 on the VMWare knowledge base.
The cause is very simple, and so is the solution: Member servers and clients have, just like users, accounts with passwords. If set up like this, these passwords are reset every set period. If you revert a machine back to an old snapshot, chances are that the password stored in the snapshot is not up to date with the password stored in Active Directory, and hence, Active Directory does not allow the machine to log on again.
Restoring SharePoint sites, doesn’t!
So you’ve set up yourself a nice farm of production, testing and acceptance SharePoint servers, and you want to build a new test server.
You make a backup through the Central Administration website, and on your soon to be testing server, you restore the backup.
And then you want to connect the restored Content database, only to discover that SharePoint claims that this database does not contain any sites… Oops? …
Versioning for dummies
In a very old post, I explained how to set up your own Subversion server to benefit from storing your scripts in a versioning repository. Certainly when you are working with multiple administrators on one environment, you want to be sure you are using the latest version of a certain script, and be able to roll back to a working version if you or one of your colleagues manage to wreck it.
New environment, and while setting up a new Subversion for our small group of admins, I found out about VisualSVN. Same functionality, but easier to use!
Belgian Taxes, fiscal horsepowerBelgisch belastingsstelsel, fiscale pk
The Belgian tax system has its oddities. One of them is what they call “fiscal horsepower”. It is an interesting but blunt tool to define which cars are fast, and therefore should be taxed higher than others.
Accelleration is the combination of power and mass of the object you want to move. Most cars that are known to be fast are known because of their higher rate of acceleration – most normal cars can do high speeds too, if you just wait long enough for it.
So the Belgian government came with a formula to figure this out in an easy to chart number: the fiscal horsepower of a car.
This number is calculated by the next formula:
(cilinder content in liters times 4) + (weight of the car divided by 400)
Just in case if anyone’s interested in figuring out how much taxes they need to pay on their next ride.
Update:
The Belgian tax people changed their formula, and scrapped the weight of the car out of it. All info is here.
