Red Bull Matadors
One of my favourite pics that I’ve taken over the last year was at the Bray Airshow 2010. The aeronautical displays were manna from heaven for the photographers present and really allowed for some amazing shots like this!
Data Protector 6.1 Exchange Single Mailbox Backups
I’ve just spent two days tracking down a lousy got-ya when using HP Data Protector 6.1 with Exchange 2007 running on Windows 2008.
It mainly boiled down to the MAPI interface not allowing me to sign in using the Exchange service account I set up.
You must disable IPv6 on the main interface or else MAPI doesn’t work correctly.
Just to list all the steps involved to save someone else out there a ton of pain…
1. To disable IPv6 in Windows 2008 you must create the DWORD ‘DisabledComponents’ value under the HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpip6Parameters key and set it to 0xFFFFFFFF.
2. Install MAPI (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e&displaylang=en&displaylang=en) on the Exchange server.
3. Install the Data Protector Exchange Integration agent on the Exchange server.
4. Set the Data Protector service on the Exchange Server to run under an account with Exchange Organization Administrator rights. Also make sure the account is in the Administrators group for the server.
5. On the Exchange server go into ‘Local Security Policy’ in the Administrative Tools menu. In the ‘Local PolicyUser Rights Assignment’ group add the Admin account from step 4 to both the ‘Act as part of the operating system’ and ‘Log on as a Service’
6. Make sure the admin account has a mailbox in the Exchange environment.
7. Open up a command line and change directory to ‘ C:Program FilesOmnibackbin’. Run the command ‘mbx_bar.exe create’. This will pop up a dialog box which you can then create a MAPI profile. Use must use the Exchange admin account you’ve been using all along at this point. This is the most critical task to succeed with.
Once this dialog disappears run the command ‘mbx_bar.exe chkconfig’. It should return a ‘*RETVAL*0′ which in English means everything is ok.
8. In Data Protector add the Exchange admin account to the Admin/Operator group under the Users drop down.
9. Now try and create a backup job in Data Protector and remember to use upper case letters for the Username and Domain name when you’re prompted for them.
Good Luck!! I hope this helps…
If I get enough comments I’ll take screen captures of the procedure and make it a little clearer.
Back to the Future is liberal with space time…
>online casinohe earth spins on its axis at 950km/h at our latitude, and the earth orbits the sun at 107278.87 km/h… and the sun spins at 845000 km/h around the milky way… How come when the DeLorean goes back through time it is in the same precise spot 30 years previously!? Impressive for a car that tops out at 88mph!
iPhone’s could Copy & Paste
Why oh why hasn’t Apple done this for the rest of the native iPhone’s applications (mail, sms, notes, etc.)
Sigh…
WordPress iPhone Application
It looks like there won’t be much of an excuse for not updating my blog anymore…
The WordPress iPhone Application will be hitting the iTunes App Store shortly and allows blogging whilst out and about. The app also supports the iPod Touch so you’ll be able to blog in any good (wifi enabled) coffee shops and airports…
Check out the teaser vid on the WordPress iPhone post.
[Update] The WordPress App is out now in the iTunes App Store!! It seems to work fairly well but doesn’t seem to do wysiwyg editing, i.e. all editing is in html mode.
Data usage on the iPhone
According to O2 Ireland, the most they can ever see an Irish O2 customer use in terms of data usage is 1GB per month. To me this is quite a small amount given the entire point of the iPhone 3G is the revolutionary internet features.
To this end I intend to post the amount of data I use in a month.
In the first 24 hours cellular data usage I’ve managed to clock up:
33.3MB Download
and
2.6MB Upload.
In both work and home I have internet wireless points so this should reduce my daily amount of data usage quite significantly.
I’ll post again in a few days and update how I’m getting on…
I got my iPhone 3G
Woo hoo!
The Carphone Warehouse on Henry Street had a few on general sale and I was able to get my 16GB iPhone!
Seemingly the O2 Store on Henry St only had 11 8GB iPhones this morning… Fairly surprising!
Not blogging for long… Got to go play! 
Limited numbers of iPhones in Ireland
I’ve just received a call from the Henry St O2 shop saying that there won’t be enough iPhones in stock tomorrow for my pre-order to be fulfilled.
This is strange since I was informed that I was ‘maybe the second person’ to pre-order the 16GB iPhone in that store. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the guy who rang me, I’m just annoyed that I’ll have to wait several more weeks for mine even though I pre-ordered on July 2nd.
Anyone else get a call too?
Macbook Pro Hard Drive Upgrade
I have just completed a (forced) upgrade to my Macbook Pro with a 320GB Seagate (ST9320320AS). “Forced” simply because I woke up this morning turned on my mac and suddenly heard a load of clicking sounds!
I can confirm that this model of drive is compatible with the Macs and was actually a little quicker than the original hard drive.
Links I found useful:
ExtremeTech
It’s quite easy to do but it does involve over 20 screws being undone!