Lenovo's netbooks have had pretty good press, but they haven't really stood out of the competition... yet. When it comes to building hackintosh netbooks, Dell's mini line has had all the press. Do a few searches, and you will see that there are numerous guides for installing mac osx 10.5 and even 10.6 on dell hardware. This may all change...

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Hmm, can anybody guess what my first question was about the new Apple tablet computer-like-device-thing ?

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A while back I did a blog post regarding how to use Ghost 2003 with Windows Vista to do partition based backup and restores. Since Vista came out, you can't install the Ghost 2003 application in windows, and you need to use a bootable CD.

Since then I have upgraded to Windows 7 (and on a side note, i DO notice many improvements over Vista, and it seems to be running pretty stable and smooth). I tested all my old documentation and determined that Ghost 2003 works with Windows 7, just as it did with Vista.

So good news people, you CAN still use that old copy of ghost 2003 to backup/restore your Windows 7 machines.

So here is how to do it:

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Seems that there is a lot of confusion for people who manage windows/IIS servers and need to disable SSL 2 and older weaker encryption. There are are few nice articles, but can sometimes be confusing unless you really know your way around the Windows Registry. I hope I can simplify this for some people.

Important: There is no need to purchase a utility to do this. Save the money. Some companies charge you $20 or more per server to have a utility to easily click and enable/disable these services.

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Seems like lots of people are having a problem with Railo configured for multiple websites on a single host, but also need to support AMF via BlazeDS.

The common symptom is when you restart railo services, sometimes you will get a big error instead of your web page that says something like:

Here is what I found to work for me:

1. Read this post by Roland Ringgenberg at the railo google group and follow the directions to install the java jar and edit the flex/services-config.xml file:

2. For me, railo runs on port 8600 internally, and I have IIS configured to serve up content. BlazeDS however doesn't get mapped through IIS, so you need to talk on the native port (again, for MY configuration, YMMV). So to access it, i needed to open TCP port 8600 through the firewall.

3. Once i could talk to the server over port 8600, I changed my flex app that uses remoting to point to http://myserver:8600/flashservices/gateway/ and eveyrthing worked great!

One other interesting observation... When using Flash remoting with CF7/8/9, you can talk to your CFCs and invoke methods that are set to "public." With BlazeDS, your methods need to be marked as "remote" to be accessible. Minor syntax difference, but a huge impact on security. make sure you secure your CFCs!