1) CONFIGURE MODULES TO LOAD AT BOOT
Add the following to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
hv_vmbus
hv_storvsc
hv_blkvsc
hv_netvsc
Generate a new initrd image
# update-initramfs –u
2) CONFIGURE NETWORKING
Add the following to /etc/network/interfaces
auto seth0
iface seth0 inet dhcp
Above assumes that you installed 10.04 with a Synthetic NIC installed, if you had an Emulated NIC installed and have switched to Synthetic NIC you can change eth0 to seth0.

That is it, once these changes have been made you can reboot and will be able to see the modules loaded.
# lsmod | grep hv_*

Source: http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/53/Hyper-V-Guests-Ubuntu-10-04-Alpha-3-Synthetic-Devices.aspx


/*.bak.*
/*.bak
thumbs.db
App_Data/*
bin/*
obj/*
_ReSharper.*/
tmp/
/*.user
/*.suo
/*.pidb
/*.userprefs
/*.usertasks


1. - AppPool has to be set to 4.0. This is a no brainer, but one I forgot.

2. - 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30128\Temporary ASP.NET Files' - Needs to have app's user set to be able to write (Change version to version of 4.0 you use)

3. - I installed IIS in some funky manner apparently! I kept getting "Bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list" errors on all my apps. Re-running C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30128\aspnet_regiis.exe -i got me where I needed to go. Again, replace the version with your v4 version.

4. - Another obvious but tricky one. I was getting 404.0 errors on ALL asp.net pages, but not static files. Remember to give both your app user and IIS_IUSRS access to your files!

I had to uninstall it for a bit due to a conflict with a .NET 2.0 app, that couldn’t find the runtime when 4.0 was installed. Uninstalling it did the trick, I ran the app, and then reinstalled 4.0.

This is where the problems started.

VS2010 started complaining all the time. It’s like it knew that I’d killed it’s carnival prize fish, and replaced it with an identical one from the pet store. I checked the dependencies, they were all good, checked the mappings, they were there. VS2008 worked just fine, however, 2010 was still pouting in the corner, refusing to do any work.

I decided to “Repair/Uninstall” and see if that fixed. On most of the dependencies, I got a “The Operation Could Not Be Completed” message. BOO!

So now I’ve tried a complete uninstall, which also is giving those same damn errors. Hopefully I won’t have to reinstall Windows 7, cause that will be a big bummer.

In doing this I noticed the web server that hosts this blog was chugging along on a measly 256MB of RAM. NO GOOD! So I pushed her up to a gig, and now she runs alot smoother.

I'm also going to be migrating the databases, and merging the rails apps in with the PHP apps, all on the same server.  This means that I'll be  running Passenger on Apache for the first time, so there's obviously going to be some reading going down this weekend!

This should pull my costs down a bit, while at the same time giving the individual engines a bit more gusto.

I'll let you know how it goes...

Download: http://c0409371.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/2.1.zip

Anyways, here's a simple way to make any URL a proxy of sorts for your OpenID requests. Simply add the following two lines (my example is for my Google account, yours will differ) to the head of your site, and voila! You can now start pushing OpenID requests to your URL, and they will be forwarded to the provider you list.

<link rel="openid2.provider openid.server" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud" />
<link rel="openid2.local_id openid.delegate" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/<YOUR PROFILE NAME HERE>" />

Just remember, your OpenID server is different from your delegate. Your delegate is the actual URL you used to put in to OpenID requests before, the server is the base OpenID server.

Here's some common one's I've found:

LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml

Vox: http://www.vox.com/services/openid/server

VeriSign: https://pip.verisignlabs.com/server

MyOpenID http://www.myopenid.com/server

Google: http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud

First of all. I don't like usability. Not in the current form that most people see it as today. I think usability should relate to the masses. Not the minuscule percentages that tend to plague my hoptoad log. If an app I develop can be used by 80% of the visitors, I've succeeded in usability (IMO). Those people who have disabilities and need screen readers to use the web are not my problem. I don't have the time nor the desire to code for every possible situation. I cover the majority of my bases, and move on.
Now, I'm not saying that those people don't deserve to use my app, I'm saying that they need to get a better screen reader.  Imagine if we started putting up road signs in EVERY SINGLE LANGUAGE just because at some point, some time, somewhere, there might be someone who doesn't know English. Heaven forbid, right? It's impossible to think that we should have to do that, and we don't.

Instead, usually, those people purchase a translation book, or some other cipher for English-to-whatever, and they process the information themselves. It may take them a bit longer, and be slightly inconvenient, but that's the way it goes.

What if that person turned the wrong way down an off ramp and caused a huge accident. Could they sue the government for not making a road sign in their language? NO! They would be told they should have gotten a better translator.

I'm all for better usability in websites, but do not sacrifice functionality to do so. If you absolutely must, make a seperate, text only, no JS version of your site. But don't spend 20% of your time, working on something that only 1% (if that) of your audience will use.

I started Nisme almost a year ago, and back then it was pretty much what it is today. A pet project aimed at increasing my knowledge of C#. I have started thinking more and more about what Nisme can and cannot be. I've invariably gotten thousands (yes, litterally THOUSANDS) of emails asking me to make an app that either downloads mp3's, or some how circumvents the protection that Lala has put in place. I'll state this one time and one time only.

NO.

Now that that is out of the way, let's move on to what I have planned for Nisme. My goal over the next few months is to clean up the code and make the application more stable. I've never had the intention of adding the market into the player, as I think lala has already done an amazing job of that, and I have no intention of reinventing the wheel. Nisme was meant to be an enriched player for your music that lala hosts. Nothing more. I think it has done a wonderful job of doing that already, and I also think it has quite a ways to go before I consider it "complete".

Up until now I have never really defined what Nisme was and was not. I am going to start doing that, and you will soon see several blog posts in the near future detailing what new features I have in store for Nisme.

One final thing.

Alot of people have asked me what Nisme means. Nisme is the Sumerian word for "Hear", cleverly thought of by a close friend of mine, Adenansu (http://adenansu.com/). I hope I didn't crush any dreams of it meaning something more mystical, but hey, you get what you pay for, amirite?

Note to write the USB image to a usb stick use the following command:

dd if=<path_to_usb.img> of=<dev_of_your_usb_stick> bs=4M

After logging in, use CTRL+ALT+T to open a new terminal and execute:

/usr/sbin/chromeos-install

Enter the password: "wedtm" with out the enclosing quotation marks.

Enjoy!

I still haven't even tried it yet, as I was busy getting these images out, so I'll make sure to update this page with my findings.

Downloads:

Base Images (mbr.image & rootfs.image): Download
VMWare VMDK: Download
USB Stick Image: Download