For those who like to collect technical posters, here are a list of them from TechNet blog. Worth checking and saving, or even printing out ant putting them on the wall in your office. At least, I had done it before.

• Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5567b22a-8c47-4840-a88d-23146fd93151
• Windows Server 2008 Component Posters. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64a5cc28-f8a1-4b30-a4a2-455c65bda8d7&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EB8C09A-6EA4-442A-9FAA-DE33265CEB84&displaylang=en
• This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDCDF6E5-DE47-4B58-8086-282101BCDDE9&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=612f811d-2953-4c08-945e-833c17150083&displaylang=en&tm
• SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams:http://blogs.technet.com/b/schadinio/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-technical-diagrams.aspx

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For those who like to collect technical posters, here are a list of them from TechNet blog. Worth checking and saving, or even printing out ant putting them on the wall in your office. At least, I had done it before.

• Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5567b22a-8c47-4840-a88d-23146fd93151
• Windows Server 2008 Component Posters. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64a5cc28-f8a1-4b30-a4a2-455c65bda8d7&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EB8C09A-6EA4-442A-9FAA-DE33265CEB84&displaylang=en
• This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDCDF6E5-DE47-4B58-8086-282101BCDDE9&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=612f811d-2953-4c08-945e-833c17150083&displaylang=en&tm
• SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams:http://blogs.technet.com/b/schadinio/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-technical-diagrams.aspx

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Well, ever since I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4, I have been suffering the sluggish on almost all apps I am using on the phone. While Apple is aware of this and is currently investing this issue at the moment, both my colleague and neowin mentioned an easy fix that would quickly solve this issue. And the best part is, it actually works.

To remedy the sluggish performance (or at least one cause of it) go to “Settings->General->Home Button->Spotlight Search-> deselect every option”. What it does is to stop all background indexing on the phone.

Since I never used this search feature on my phone, I should have disabled them in the first place. It does seem to reduce the sluggish at some point and improve the overall performance quite a bit. So if you are suffering the same, you may want to give it a try as well.

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With the new Google Sync that supports email push via Exchange ActiveSync and multiple Exchange account available on iOS4, I reset up all my email account on my iPhone with all of them push enabled. However, after a short while of enjoyment, I turned Push off because if I didn’t I would need basically to buy a battery extender to re-juice my iPhone on the road.

As it’s mentioned on Google Sync,

As with any service using push technology, Google Sync may cause increased usage of your devices’ battery.

It happens the same when using Microsoft Exchange as well, which uses Direct Push feature that uses heartbeat messages to keep a session alive between the server and the mobile device.

So, it’s fate that it’s going to drain your batter quicker if you want to use the technology. If you have a better device with long-life of battery equipped you may enjoy the convenience the push technology brings to you. Otherwise, a manual fetch option would be more appropriate.

I have 3 email exchange accounts set up on my iPhone, one with Microsoft Exchange and the other two with Google Sync. Having Push feature turned on all 3 accounts, my batter will be used up within half day if there is no other activities going on during the period. After a bit of more testing, it seems that the account with Microsoft Exchange drains more power than the other two Gmail accounts. Maybe it’s due to the complicity associated with Exchange account is much more than Gmail with Google Sync. But I am not so sure.

The other reason why I turned off Push on emails is that it seems to inference with my other activities on the device as well. Because I am still using 3G model but with iOS 4 on it it runs a lot slower than before. So turning off anything that runs in the background should help to smooth my regular use of the device.

For now, I am still living in the old fetching mode.

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VPN has been widely used in all kinds organizations since it’s invented. I personally have been using this technology for almost 10 years but to be honest, I still haven’t touched some of areas in this technology. And it seems to get advanced quite a bit as time goes.

Thanks to Technically Personal for coming up an awesome post that not only explains how VPN works in a simple diagram but also lists number of types VPNs existed and what they are.

Here are the 7 types of VPN listed, some of which you may have already known and used.

1. PPTP VPN

2. Site-to-Site VPN

3. L2TP VPN

4. IPsec

5. SSL – well, it’s not really a type of VPN to me, but a protocol that secures the web application.

6. MPLS VPN

7. Hybrid VPN

Thanks again to the author.

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FreeTextBox used to be my favorite and I use it without second thought every time when I need it but not anymore because it doesn’t play nicely once you place it inside the <update> panel for Ajax. Without doing it, I can’t use the modern modal popup for data update form.

Luckily, ASP.net Ajax control toolkit already includes a HTMLEditor for you to use.  However, from the testing I have done, it doesn’t seem to be working properly in Chrome. Besides that, its lack of paragraph style format also made me not to use it at the moment.

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The world cup is finally over so it’s time for me to back to work, mainly spiritually. But before I do and let it go, I have to get all my own feelings about this most popular event out first with my own top 5s.

Top 5 my favorite teams

1. Spain – what can I say? It’s simply the best team on earth.
2. Germany – a team that represents the future.
3. Argentina – no one knows Football better than Maradona.
4. Uruguay – all because of Forlan and Suarez. A team surprised me the most.
5. Japan – it would be a lot better if they made to the final 8.

5 Teams that disappointed me the most

1. Netherlands
2. Brazil
3. Italy
4. France
5. England

Top 5 players who have won my heart

1. Diego Forlan (Uruguay) – too bad, this likely would be his last world cup.
2. David Villa (Spain) – a man being a striker who can really strikes when the team needs him the most.
3. Luis Suarez (Uruguay) – a man who saved his country shouldn’t be blamed in any way.
4. Lionel Messi (Argentina) – even though he failed to deliver a goal, he’s still my hero.
5. Keisuke Honda (Japan) – hope he will be doing better in 4 years for the whole Asia.

5 players who had disappointed me

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Wayne Rooney
3. Fernando Torres

Well, actually there were only 3 who really disappointed me in this tournament.

Top 5 moments that really caught me

1. When Iniesta scored the winning goal in the final.
2. When Suarez stopped a goal from his hand on the goal line and Ghana missed the penalty shot in the last second of the overtime.
3. When seeing my all time football idol Maradona hugging his daughter after Argentina was beaten by Germany 4:0.
4. When Japan’s Komano missed his shootout to Paraguay and failed to make to the top 8.
5. When Uruguay tried hard but failed to draw the game versus Netherlands.

My 5 final thoughts

I favored and predicted Brazil and Spain will be in the final while Brazil wins in the end when the tournament started but I found myself that many had changed over the whole period.

1. Both Brazil and Netherlands are not the same team I had seen and liked anymore. Changing the way they used to play had helped Brazil won two more titles in 1994 and 2002 but not anymore. Netherlands seemed to go further with the change of how they played but still wasn’t enough to bring them a first title. They have become the only team that has made to the final 3 times but never won the title.
2. Spain’s win finally got me relived. No offense here actually. I had been a super fan of Netherlands for many years but frankly, this team has done the best as they can. It’s already a magic that they have appeared in the final.
3. Even though Spain’s win got me relived in the end, I still like the way how Germany and Uruguay played a lot more. I hope both of team can keep it and have the better performance in Brazil 4 years.
4. It’s ridiculous thinking that an octopus had dominated the whole event in the end with right 8 times in 8 predictions, including who’s the winner. Hoping that the whole football itself rather than anything that is irrelevant dominates the show and stage next time in Brazil. However, in any cases, this smart magical octopus should be long gone in 4 years, considering a normal octopus only has about 1 or 2 year of life time.
5. Finally, since Asia teams had been playing so well in this tournament, I wish team China should start doing some magical work now so that they can catch up in some way that can help them to compete both Korean and Japan.

Finally, the party is over. We will have to wait for another 4 years to see all the dramas again.

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One of my colleagues came to me yesterday asking if I know anyplace that can do the data restoring because he’s got loose connection on his Samsung 500G portable hard drive and he’s worried about all the photos he’s saved on it. I asked him to bring it over so I can take a quick look at it to see if I can help him.

Sure enough, the USB port which is the only connection on the case was so loose that I couldn’t make it firmly connected to any computers. That left me no option but to rip the case off so we can get the data right off the hard drive.

So I did it, but what surprised me after I ripped the case off and saw the hard drive inside was that it doesn’t have the standard data interface, either IDE or SATA, like normal 2.5” hard drive would have. Instead, it’s got a type-A standard USB connection soldered directly on the board but was completely off when I got the enclosure opened. I was stunned how I could copy the data off the hard drive without any data transfer interface physically installed?

In the end, I managed to solder the little type-A USB port back to the board and was lucky that all the little pins are connected tightly and stably so that I was able to get the data restored.

Whatever the reason was, this is just plain bad. It actually made me worried so much that I don’t seem to trust those portable devices anymore, even though I still have my WD Passport in my backpack. I would rather buy the hard drive and enclosure separately and assemble them by myself. At least, I know the data is safe when the connection is damaged.

I am simply hoping this Samsung S2 Portable device is only one of the fewer ones out there having the same bad design. After all, people still like and need the small portable device and more importantly people want their data safe.

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