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Andrew's SpaceWhat? This whole site's about Andrew? next site, please.... September 12 Sara Ehrensing playing "This little piggy..."
This is my first video upload; Sara and Mom playing this little piggy went to market (the revised version). Everyone in China is asking for video, they want more than the photos we have been uploading.
In other baby news, Sara just had her first shots - 6 total. She swelled up the first 24 hours but was OK after that. Still not sleeping much at night, Mom is getting pretty worn out staying up every night with her. The doctor has given us the OK to take her back to China in October, now we have to figure out if that is the best time to go. If we miss October we might have to wait until February / March to miss the flu season November-January. Not sure if Haihong's mom can wait that long.
The video upload was quick, the processing takes time. This 25mb video took 10 minutes.
Quote April 29 Clear Airport Security with Registered Traveler programEveryone - use the following discount code for a free month of service: Clear Discount code: DSCAM1143396 This will save give you a free month of service with Clear and the TSA approved Registered Traveler program! Use this code to get a free month with the Registered Traveler program offered by Clear. Also - you can receive an additional two months of membership for free by using your American Express corporate card (http://www.flyclear.com/axpcorporate/). I recently signed up for Clear's registered traveler program at the DCA airport. The process was quick - less than 15 minutes. However, it would have been faster had I finished the online portion at home. The registration process is two steps. Cost of the program is $128 per year ($100 for clear and $28 for the TSA vetting fee). Step 1 - Online EnrollmentThe first step is to setup a Clear account with your personal information. You can start this process at home or at work from the following location: (http://www.flyclear.com/enrollment/). For this process you will need your drivers license number, all home addresses for the previous 5 years, Social Security number (or green card number), and a current credit card. Your card is not charged until you perform the 2nd step - the in person application - at a Clear facility. Step 2 - In Person ApplicationThe 2nd step is to validate your identity using valid government issued credentials (your Drivers License and your Passport) from two separate staff at the Clear location. The staff will then capture biometric information specific to you (fingerprints and iris scans) and a photograph. The biometric information is only stored on your Clear card, not in a database at Clear. This way your authorized Clear card can be matched to you when you enter the 'shortcut lane' and you can use a shorter security lane at the airport. The in-person signup process took me less than 5 minutes to complete. Once these two steps are completed, the TSA will perform a background check using the information you have provided, and if you are approved, will issue your Clear card in 3-10 business days from the completion of the background check. All together, I received the card approximately 2 weeks after I signed up for the program. April 26 Tools for sharing filesI'm curious to try the Live Mesh folder sharing tool. I currently have multiple tools for syncing files between my home and work computers including FolderShare (www.foldershare.com/) and Allway Sync (http://www.allwaysync.com/). Allway Sync is used for the 40gb of work data between my work laptops and my home backup server infrastructure and handles large file counts (25,000 files) and large data sizes (40gb) with ease. I use wired GB Ethernet for syncing purposes instead of wireless to keep the speeds down. For sharing family photos, my family uses FolderShare. This works with file libraries up to 10,000 files and allows us to have a local copy of all of our family photos kept in sync between all of my family members computers. This ensures that the content is distributed and thus protected from a local computer loss or even a house fire or other catastrophe since the content is replicated to all family members' computers. FolderShare allows me to define the level of permissions for library members (contributor, editor, manager, etc...). I used to allow several people to be a manager, but after one person accidentally deleted the files (and the deletions propagated) I revoked permissions to just two of us. Everyone else is now a contributor, so an accidental deletion of a library by a family member won't be propagated to all family members. I've been waiting for a consolidated tool and have read good feedback so far from the Live Mesh services (www.mesh.com). Time to install and try this version out. September 11 Before and after surgery
Woke up this morning, had surgery early, and now have a straight collarbone again! For the curious people, here are the before and after X-Rays. Pre-Surgery Before: X-Ray taken September 1st, 2 hours after the accident:
(yes - those two bones in the upper left corner should be one. and if you look closely you can see a fragment in there also.) Post-Surgery And after - a nice straight collarbone with a brace (and a pin):
Time to get some rest, pretty wiped out this afternoon. September 05 End of Summer - Broken Right ClavicleOK - Sept 1 for me officially represented the end of my summer. Went mountain biking with Haihong and Deborah, and an hour into it had a spectacular wipeout - jump, land on soft sand with weight tooo far forward, over the handlebars, and POW, broken right clavicle. At first - wasn't too bad, I was worried about a dislocated shoulder, but had full motion in my right arm. When I felt my right collarbone and could push it around (two separate pieces) I knew my day of biking was over (and likely any major physical activity this fall). Went to the hospital - had some X-Rays taken, and voila! My right clavicle is fractured and the ends are 2cm apart. Hospital gave me a sling and a figure 8 splint to wear until I see a specialist for the surgery go/no-go decision. Scheduled a specialist visit Wednesday morning. Specialist takes more X-Rays, looks at them for 10 seconds, and says "I recommend surgery". The bone ends are far enough apart that natural healing would mean my new clavicle would look like a letter Z - and that would a lump on my shoulder, stretched muscles, increased healing time (2.5 cm of bone needs to grow) and a weaker clavicle. Surgery can put the bone ends together, wrap a brace around them, and ensure the bone is one straight bone again after it heals. I will also have a reduced healing time as the bone ends will heal back together. Surgery scheduled for 7:30am Tuesday morning at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Hopefully it will be minor and non-incidental. X-Rays to be posted once I get them from the hospital. The fracture is fun to look at! Pain? Minor by day 5, already off of painkillers that were prescribed. Sleeping isn't fun (have to lay on my back) but other than that pretty normal. And to top it off - Deborah broke her right arm biking on Monday. What a weekend... August 20 Updating Active Directory for Exchange 2007This question has been one of the primary discussion generators I have seen in the past year. Here is the quandary: How do I extend the schema of my org for Exchange 2007? I am getting errors when running setup!! Help! Something about 32/64 etc... Soo... Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 is available in both a 32 bit and 64 bit version. Customers that deploy Microsoft's Active Directory directory service on Windows Server 2003 therefore have a choice - use the 32 or 64 bit version of Windows. Therefore domain controllers can be 32 bit, 64 bit, and you can have a mix of both in your organization (older servers run 32 bit Windows 2003, newer servers run 64 bit Windows 2003). So far so good, right? OK, now lets talk about extending the schema and preparing the forest and domain for Microsoft Exchange. Ever since Exchange Server 2000 a set of schema extensions (additional attributes required for operation of Exchange Server) need to be added to the Active Directory schema for Exchange operations. In the days of Windows 2000 / 2003 and Exchange 2000 / 2003 this was a simple affair - use the Exchange 2003 media and execute the "setup /ForestPrep" and voila, the schema in your forest has been extended to include the additional attributes required by Exchange. Since Exchange 2003 came only on 32 bit media, and most organizations only had 32 bit versions of Windows Server deployed, there wasn't any confusion. With the introduction of Exchange 2007, there are two versions:
The problem (and hence the quandary) is that the 32 bit version cannot be executed on a 64 bit Windows Server platform, and a 64 bit version cannot be executed on a 32 bit platform. Adding to the confusion is that prerequisites (some are complex and lengthy). Exchange Server 2007 Prerequisite Updates: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2007/deploy/prereqs.mspx?wt.svl=preparing Answer: Once you have the prerequisites, you will also need to ensure that the server you execute the the command "setup /PrepareSchema" or "setup /ps" is OF THE SAME OS BUILD AS THE MEDIA YOU USE. So.. if you are using the 32 bit media, run the "setup /PrepareSchema" on a 32 bit version of Windows Server 2003. If you are using the 64 bit media, run the "setup /PrepareSchema" on a 64 bit version of Windows Server 2003. The server that you run "setup /PrepareSchema" on MUST be in the same Active Directory site as the domain controller that holds the "Schema Master" FSMO role. It does NOT need to be a domain controller - it can be either a domain controller or a member server. Your next question may be - "But... the 32 bit media is a trial version! I don't want to use that in production". Answer: The Schema Extensions are the same for the 32 bit and 64 bit versions: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719.aspx
Hope this answers your "32/64 questions for running preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007"! Annual Golf Outing and the "Mullislam"August 10th was the date of our annual golf outing (year 7 I believe)? This year we didn't have an organizer until late, and so by the time the date was finalized the turnout was lower- only 4 foursomes. A typical year has 10-12 foursomes. The good news is that the format was changed, and I believe for the better. The old rules were a 4 person scramble with the addition that each 4 some would subtract the average number of beers they drank from their score. So if each person had 10 beers and the 4some shot a 78, the total score would be 68: 78 - (4 * 10) / 4. With this scoring style the winning teams generally had a format of:
This led to average score reductions in the 18-20 range, which was a lot of beers to consume over 18 holes and in general was not that popular with the course owners, our wives/gfs, and anyone playing behind our outing. It was, however, very popular with the beer cart girls due to the tips that would grow in size over the round. This year, the organizer changed the rules. The "subtract avg beers from the score" portion of the "BeerBall Scramble" rule was dropped and replaced with the "Mullislam". This was a HUGE hit in the tournament (one of several positive changes). Mullislam - You want a mulligan? Slam / Shotgun a beer! A mullislam was allowed to be used on any stroke that a player wanted to rehit - this includes drives, iron shots, and putting. This maintained the "BeerBall" character of the tournament but allowed it to be applied at the stroke level. (As defined on WikiPedia): http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WT:LOP#M (scroll down to Mullislam) The format of the tournament was also modified slightly. We maintained the 4 person teams, but each team was split into a 2 two-somes and then we randomly mixed the two-somes. This ensured that each team was monitored by a different team which helped ensure honest play throughout. Additionally, several holes had "Challenges" which would reward and/or punish the winners and losers. For example - on a Par 3 hole, the winners of "closest to the pin" could put with their putter, the losers would putt with their driver. This added a lot of pressure between the two teams. Overall - with the removal of the old rule, the addition of the Mullislam, and the challenges - this was the best outing I've been to yet. Of course, it helped to be on the winning team and win the long drive contest, but I'm looking forward to this one next year also! August 14 Cats that play 'Fetch'After over 14 years without pets (since I left home) I finally have a pets again. Adopted two orange tabby cats (a brother and sister) from the local animal shelter. They were one and a half years old at adoption. Originally they were named Honey and Hummer, but Haihong didn't like Hummer so she renamed him Mustard. Honey, the sister, likes to play fetch. She has a green monkey toy that she will drop off at your feet and wait for you to throw. I've never played fetch before with a cat. Here are a couple of photos of them:
Dual Monitors / Windows VistaI have had two monitors for a while and have wanted to enable dual monitor support from my primary home computer for some time. Since I hadn't done this before, I wasn't sure how. Was I supposed to:
Suprisingly (or not suprisingly, if you've worked with computers) it wasn't too difficult. The answer from the friendly staff at Microcenter was "It can be done with two separate video cards, but it is tricky and your system may be prone to additional crashes". To me - this makes sense, there would be two different video cards, each with a different interface to the computer. In the end, I purchased the e-GeForce 7600 GS K0. It has dual DVI outputs (each LCD supports DVI) and had drivers for Windows Vista. Attached video output 1 to the KVM and output 2 to the 2nd monitor. Voila - dual monitor support from the primary PC. Now Outlook on one screen and web browsing / Word / documents on the other screen. Of course, within a week or so of me enabling this I learned of another method. "UltraMon"
A colleague from work recommended it and showed me the potential. He had 1 laptop, 1 desktop, and 3 LCD screens plus his laptop screen. Using UltraMon, he was able to use 1 keyboard and mouse to control both the laptop and desktop using all 4 screens. Incredibly nifty! Time to download and purchase Ultramon and give it a try. Cost: $40 for a single user license.
May 17 Installed Joost!Finally! Installed Joost on my laptop and desktop at home. So far I am VERY impressed, Joost has the capability to turn your TV into a computer more so than any other program I've used (Media Center, etc...).
On my home computer, once it starts up there isn't any lag, shows load in less than 10 seconds, and the audio is crisp. Video is on par with standard television (non HDTV). But the ability to pull down shows on demand far outweighs the drop in quality.
Next step will be to set this up so that it can displayed on my TV, need some more cables but should be possible.
I've got Joost invites, leave a comment if you'd like one. The more people use it, the better the Joost experience will be.
February 22 PS2 outsells PS3 in JanuaryEven though I don't play games or even own a gaming console, I can't help but be fascinated by the current Wii/Xbox360/PS3 fight for market share. Sony's highly vaunted PS3 isn't doing to well - in January the PS2 outsole the PS3. And the Wii took the lead!
So that puts the sales for January at:
1.) Wii: 436,000
2.) PS2: 299,000
3.) Xbox360: 294,000
4.) PS3: 244,000 (and plummeting)
I wonder if there are odds in Vegas as to who will sell the most gaming consoles in 2007...
And if you are looking for a running tally of sales... there is NexGenWars
Here is Reuter's latest article showing Wii's sales momentum in January...
Nintendo's Wii was the best-selling video game console in the United States in January, and the Japanese company also boasted four of the top 10 games, data released on Wednesday showed. The figures from market research firm NPD showed that U.S. shoppers snapped up 436,000 of the Wii, which debuted in November for $250 and features a motion-sensing controller that has helped build buzz for the machine. The second best-selling console was Sony's older PlayStation 2, which moved 299,000 units and outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's newer but more expensive PlayStation 3, the data showed. Xbox 360 sales were 294,000 while those for the PS3 were 244,000. High-end versions of those machines retail for $400 and $600, respectively. In December, the biggest month for video game sales due to the holiday shopping season, Microsoft sold 1.1 million Xbox units, while Nintendo sold 604,000 Wii consoles and Sony sold 490,700 PS3 machines. February 21 The passing of Uncle EdwardIt was a sad week in the Ehrensing family - our great uncle Edward Louis Ehrensing, Jr (Uncle Edward) passed away February 9th. It was difficult to get a flight to New Orleans from Seattle on short notice, especially on Mardi Gras weekend, but I was persistent and found a way into the city by Wednesday evening.
The funeral was held at St Matthew the Apostle Catholic Church, presided over by his cousin Msgr Clinton Doskey. Msgr Doskey did wonderful job of reminding everyone what a person Uncle Edward was. His paintings in the church of the stations of the cross, his work toward founding the parish and founding the fire department, and his work through retirement at the school and volunteering. If only more people lived their life as he did... seemed to be a recurring thought from everyone throughout the week.
My favorite memory - visiting my Grandparents and knowing that Sunday Uncle Edward would be by for lunch. Always healthy, a few interesting quick stories about old New Orleans, never overbearing, and always there.
He kept a journal and wrote down many of his memories, Aunt Tina is typing these up to share with the family. I can't wait. The obituary as published in the New Orleans Times Picayune
January 21 Windows Vista BackupOK - now that Vista is up and operational it is time for more mundane matters - scheduled backups. I currently use a combination of the Windows XP backup tool, ROBOCOPY scripts, and FolderShare to replicate information from my primary work laptops, home computer, home servers, and other extended family member computers.
The Windows XP backup tool allows me to regularly schedule a backup job over the network to a Windows Server 2003 R2 computer. This includes all information that would be required to restore the computer, and guarantees that all information can be recovered at a later date. I schedule these on a weekly or monthly schedule (weekly for work laptops, monthly for home computers where the rate of data change is much less).
ROBOCOPY scripts (part of the Windows Server 2003 resource kit tools at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en) and FolderShare (www.foldershare.com) are used to backup the data files and folders only and replicate those between the machines. I've looked at other tools as well (SyncToy) and am in the process of evaluating Allway Sync Pro (www.allwaysync.com).
With the deployment of Vista Ultimate, I thought that first I would try the touted Vista Backup and Recovery Center. It sounds good - restore version files, backup delta changes only, full computer recovery. But a deeper look reveals some fundamental flaws for a sound backup strategy.
With the Vista Backup and Recovery tool I have two choices:
My issue with the individual files option is that you cannot specify all files – you can only include the following types. This means that EXE, DLL, VBS, etc.. files are excluded. So if your “C:\LocalData” folder includes these file types, you will NOT have these files included in your backup to the network. -
There is a good MSDN blog on the backup changes and this specific issue. This developer uses two backups to accomplish what used to be possible with one backup (as well as go into the issue of restoring from a Complete PC backup). Part 1 – Backup options in Vista
http://blogs.msdn.com/permanenttan/archive/2006/12/22/preparing-for-vista-backup-and-restore.aspx Part 2 – Restoring from a Complete PC backup
http://blogs.msdn.com/permanenttan/archive/2007/01/15/preparing-for-vista-backup-and-restore-part-2.aspx So - the native Vista backup tools limited functionality (even in the Enterprise version) will prohibit me from being able to use this as a viable backup approach. I'm now looking into the Windows Home Server beta program to see if its touted "backup home computer" functionality will rectify this (hoping the answer is yes). Once I have Beta 2 installed, I will update here to let you know if this resolves the issue.
In the interim - back to ROBOCOPY scripts to ensure that the primary data folders are backed up regularly.
Stay posted... January 17 Dual boot - Vista and Windows XPTime for the installation of Vista and Office 2007 Enterprise on my home computer- a Dell Optiplex 620
Specs:
Vista installed smoothly and had drivers for all of the hardware (including the Hauppauge WinTV PVR card) and enabled the Aero interface.
Now for the tricky part. I have a Nikon CoolScan V LS-50 ED slide scanner that is used to scan my grandfather's slide collection. Vista drivers for the Coolscan V ED is "To be announced". {Scroll down to the Film Scanners section}
Film scanners
Because the support is not yet ready, I need to have a Windows XP Professional installation on the same workstation - the dreaded "dual-boot" scenario. For this, I purchased a 3rd 160gb SATA hard drive to be used as the Windows XP Professional volume.
Step 1 - Procure and assemble hardware
Visit to Microcenter - procure the COMET removeable rack for 3.5" HDD from amselectronics.com, a SATA cable, and a power supply Y adapater. Part number DK-1220SE-BK
Installed the hardware into the empty 5.25" bay in the Dell Optiplex 620
Activated the SATA port that contained the drive
Step 2 - Install Windows XP Professional
Boot with the Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 CD
Select the 160GB drive, create a partition, and format using NTFS
Select that partition to install Windows XP and complete the Windows XP installation
First issue- Now XP boots automatically, no "countdown" prompt to select the OS to boot (Vista or XP)
Some quick searches on the Internet find that the issue is the way Windows Vista boots. There is a new boot process that no longer uses the old NTLDR approach. Here is the technet article: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af7781033.mspx?mfr=true
Boot Configuration DataWhat is the BCD store?The Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is started in Microsoft® Windows Vista™ and Microsoft® Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn" operating systems. These parameters were previously in the Boot.ini file (in BIOS-based operating systems) or in the nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) entries (in Extensible Firmware Interface–based operating systems). You can use the Bcdedit.exe command-line tool to affect the Windows® code which runs in the pre-operating system environment by adding, deleting, editing, and appending entries in the BCD store. Bcdedit.exe is located in the \Windows\System32 directory of the Windows Vista partition. Windows XP has overwritten this new boot framework. To boot to Vista, the original Vista framework must first be restored. There are some web articles that mention the tool FIXNTFS (http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t380561.html) as well as a location to download it it (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=135473). I searched on my Vista partition and on my Vista DVD, but was not able to find the tool. I also looked to see if the tool was downloadable from the Microsoft website but did not find it. I was thus a little reluctant to use this tool to fix the partitions. Instead, i used the instructions from Technet and the BOOTSECT (Vista DVD\BOOT\BOOTSECT.EXE) and BCDEDIT (Vista volume\Windows\System32\BCDEDIT.EXE) tools.
Additional information on BOOTSECT can be found here:
Step 3 - Recover the Vista boot sector with BOOTSECT
Boot into Windows XP
Browse to the Vista DVD to the \BOOT folder
Run the following commands:
Change to the CDROM drive letter
CD \BOOT
BOOTSECT /NT60 C: /FORCE
Reboot the computer - and Vista boots successfully!
Step 4 - Configure the boot sector for dual boot between Windows XP and Windows Vista
Now that the boot sector is configured to boot to Windows Vista, we'll use the Windows Vista BCDEDIT tool to configure a dual boot environment. Instructions can be found here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af7781033.mspx?mfr=true
Create a BCD entry for the older operating system by specifying the following. Bcdedit.exe is located in the \Windows\System32 directory of the Windows Vista partition. Description is the description of the new entry for the older operating system.
Bcdedit /create {legacy} /d “Description”
Bcdedit /set {legacy} device boot
Bcdedit /set {legacy} path \ntldr
Bcdedit /displayorder {legacy} /addlast
Reboot the workstation - and presto! Both operationg systems (Windows Vista and Windows XP) are shown as options during the boot process.
All of this work just to enable the use of the Nikon slide scanner. Hope my family appreciates the effort to scan these slides :)
Vista - MSIT Enterprise BuildVista Upgrade continues - Toshiba M2
Installing the MSIT Enterprise Vista build on my Toshiba M2 laptop.
Time to continue the Vista loads. My Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop (almost 2 years old) doesn't have the hardware necessary to take advantage of all Vista features (specifically the "Aero" interface), however, I have been running the RC1 build on it for several months and have found that it runs quite well. The laptop hardware specs are:
Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.8ghz, 32 bit
RAM: 2gb
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200, 64mb RAM
Hard drive: 60gb, 7200 RPM
I would need at least 128mb of video RAM for the Aero interface, and the video card in the M2 is not upgradeable. No worries there.
I booted up on the internal MS network, selected the IT supported build of Vista Enterprise and Office 2007 Enterprise, and let it go. I had to choose the display language and country, and away it went. About 1 hour later, I had a laptop running the RTM version of Vista and Office 2007.
Time to add the necessary additional components - Antivirus, IT Connection Manager (our VPN software), Adobe Acrobat, Office 2007 "Save to PDF", etc...
CA Etrust Antivirus
Installed successfully, no issues
IT Connection Manager
Attempted to install by following the link from the Welcome Center to:
This leads to a link to the software at:
I tried to "run" the software, but received the following error message:
Windows Installer displays a message saying: "This advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe. Contact your administrator to change the installation user interface option of the package to basic".
1st try to fix it - Download the file and run the MSI. Did not work
2nd try to fix it - Disable the User Account Control feature in Windows Vista (and reboot). Did not work
3rd try to fix it - Run the file using the following command
msiexec /qb /i "Cardmod_x86 and MSITPintool.msi"
This seemed to install successfully, at least I did not see an error message again.
Of course - now that I see read the surrounding text - I realize that the Cardmod package is not required on Windows Vista! D'oh!
ISA Firewall Client
Installed successfully, no issues.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Installed successfully, no issues
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise
Installed successfully, no issues
Also added Visio 2007, Project 2007, Information Bridge Framework
January 02 Change Vista pathsFinally upgraded the home computer from Vista RC1 to Vista RTM (technically - wipe and install). I copied all data from the source drive to a secondary drive, wiped the OS partition clean, and installed Vista Ultimate RTM on a Dell Optiplex GX620 with 1gb of RAM. The installation took approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Step 1: Disable User Account Control
The first thing I wanted to do was disable the User Account Control security enhancements. This was easy to do following the steps at
Step 2: Folder Redirection
The second thing I wanted to do was change the path of the Public Desktop, Public Documents, Public Downloads, Public Music, Public Pictures, and Public Videos folders. I have 2 internal SATA drives, 80gb and 400gb in size. I wanted to move the Public special folders to the 400gb drive (the D drive) so that there was additional space to store photos, music, videos, etc...
Also - I currently have folder redirection setup for each of my home users. This causes them to redirect their Windows XP "My Documents" folder to a home directory and to make that folder available offline so it is available on their laptops while traveling.
Initially I was unable to browse to change the path of the Public folders mentioned above. I found the location in the registry that specifies the location for each of the "special" Public folders:
Computer\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Folders
I changed the path for the folders here to D:\LocalData\Public\Desktop, Documents, etc... and rebooted. The changes did not take effect, but after the reboot I was able to "Browse" from the location tab from each of the special Public folders. I browsed to the correct location on the D drive and moved the contents of the existing folders (there was a warning that two versions would appear if I did not move the original contents). Once they were moved they would disappear.
I checked the NTFS permissions on the source folders and the target folders and noticed they were different. The source folders had the following permissions:
Administrators
* Full Control: This folder, subfolders, and files
BATCH
* (Traverse folder, List folder, Read attributes, Read extended attributes, Create files, Create folders, Write attributes, Write extended attributes, Delete subfolders and files, Delete, Read permissions): This folder, subfolders, and files CREATOR OWNER
* Full Control: Subfolders and files only INTERACTIVE
* (Traverse folder, List folder, Read attributes, Read extended attributes, Create files, Create folders, Write attributes, Write extended attributes, Delete subfolders and files, Delete, Read permissions): This folder, subfolders, and files SERVICE * (Traverse folder, List folder, Read attributes, Read extended attributes, Create files, Create folders, Write attributes, Write extended attributes, Delete subfolders and files, Delete, Read permissions): This folder, subfolders, and files
SYSTEM
* Full Control: This folder, subfolders, and files WMPNetworkSvc
* (List folder, Read attributes, Read extended attributes, Read permissions): This folder, subfolders, and files
Added the permissions, still don't see the Public\Public Music folder. Hmm - have to work on this some more.
Oktoberfest 2007Brent has reserved the rooms at the Sheraton at the grounds (next door to the beer tents). The current dates are:
ArabellaSheraton Westpark The tentative travel schedule is: We will post additional information here as we develop the schedule and accomodations. October 08 Quite a while since my last postIts been quite a while since I last posted here. There are photos from Isle Royale, China, Tibet, and San Francisco to be posted. Isle Royale is now up, I'm working on the China/Tibet photos (have mine and Aunt Joyce's consolidated, have to get Edith and Andres').
I was hoping to make another trip to Isle Royale this fall (Sept/Oct timeframe) but that isn't going to happen since it is already October and getting cool. We'll have to plan for next July/August and make that an annual event. Isle Royale and Tibet were the highlights so far this year. Isle Royale was 5 days with carry-in/carry-out policies - and Haihong's first time camping. She did better than I (I had new hiking boots and had bad blisters after 15 miles the first day). After a couple of days of walking on blisters I toughened up my feet and I was better the 4th and 5th days.
Oktoberfest 2007
The big trip next year will be Oktoberfest 2007. So far we've got 5 people - and the plan is to go Chicago -> Amsterdam -> Belgium -> Munich -> Italy -> Chicago. We'll see if we can round up some more - this will be a beer and friends tour through Europe. Our plan is to stop and see Tonino in Belgium, Thomas in Munich, and Paolo and Angelo in Italy. The current dates for the trip look like Sept 16 - Oct 3 (though we may stay later). This could mushroom into a big trip - I've had a lot of friends talking about making a trip in the past, we'll see what happens.
July 12 Paintball Extreme 2006 - JolietPaintball! At Joliet Challenge Extreme Sept 9th!
So far we have 12 people in or tentative and the list is growing. Keeping the status posted here.
Isle Royale ItineraryMade it! 5 days on Isle Royale - everything carried in and out on a backpack. We left July 2nd, returned July 6th on the Isle Royale Queen from Copper Harbor. Haihong was a little queasy on the trip out - we had 12-18" swells (only a slight rocking of the boat). She took 2 quesy pops and went outside, felt much better. The trip over took ~3 hours and the weather was beautiful. A couple of the kids and a few adults were pretty seasick and ended up involuntarily purging their stomachs.
Original Itineary:
Day 1: Rock Harbor -> Lane Cove
Day 2: Lane Cove -> East Chickenbone
Day 3: East Chickenbone -> McCargoe Cove
Day 4: McCargoe Cove -> Daisy Farm
Day 5: Daisy Farm -> Rock Harbor
As with all plans on Isle Royale - we changed our plans about 2 hours into the first day hike. There were very few insects (mosquitoes, flys, etc..) on the Greenstone Ridge trail and we met a few people who were at Lane Cove who said the bugs there were pretty bad. We changed our itinerary to go down Greenstone to either Daisy Farm or West Chickenbone, and our actual itinerary turned out to be:
Actual Itinerary:
Day 1: Rock Harbor -> East Chickenbone
Day 2: East Chickenbone -> Moskey Bay (3 sided shelter -get number 7 or 8!)
Day 3: Moskey Bay -> Daisy Farm
Day 4: Daisy Farm -> Three Mile
Day 5: Three Mile -> Rock Harbor
Day 5: 10 mile canoe trip through Tobin Bay to the point
The first day's hike was a long one (15 miles) and I got a couple of blisters while breaking in some relatively new hiking boots (only used the previously on Mt St Helens in Aug 2005). Also - there isn't any water on the Greenstone Ridge trail from Tobin Bay all of the way down to East Chickenbone - there are two lakes on the side of the trail but they are only accessible via backcountry packing through a half mile to mile of scrub brush. We pushed on all the way to East Chickenbone but were pretty dehydrated by the time we got there since we drank most of our water by the Objibway Tower milestone.
Moose Sightings:
We didn't see any moose for the first 4 days on the island. Most of our hiking was between 9am-6pm (usually 10-4 or so). Moose are most active in the late evening and early morning. Some of the other hikers saw some near Moskey Bay but we missed them.
Finally - on the 4th night we saw a mother and her calf swim into the bay at 3 mile harbor right after dusk. They waited on the shore for about 10 minutes and then ate vegetation all night long (including for 2 hours right in front of our shelter!). It was pretty dark but yo ucould see them - if they were tame you could have reached out to touch them. On Day 5 - we saw another moose on the trail between 3 mile and Rock Harbor - this one was at approximately 9:30am and was less than 20 yards away. We saw another mother and her calf while paddling a canoe around Tobin Bay - they were swimming from an island to the mainland ~1:30pm.
Wolf Sightings:
We were did not see any wolves - but our neighbors while at 3 mile saw one while hiking into the camp. The wolf was at the Lake Superior shoreline drinking water while they were on the trail 20 yards away. A couple in a canoe on Lake Superior saw the wolf and pointed it out - they had some beautiful pictures.
Bugs / Mosquitoes / Ticks
We didn't see ANY ticks! Thank god. Mosquitoes were very few - we brought 100% DEET but still saw only a few mosquitoes over the 5 days. Day 4 near 3 Mile's harbor we stayed out til 10pm watching for moose - and a swarm came around 9:30pm-11pm. By 11:30 they were quiet again. The park rangers told us that there are primarly Moose Ticks on Isle Royale and they leave people alone. Some years there are the normal ticks but this year there weren't any on our itinerary and travel dates. The mosquito nets we brought weren't needed.
Return Trip
The return trip on the Isle Royale Queen to Copper Harbor was uneventful. Erin Largent happened to be on the same ferry back after 10 days researching on the island (measuring the growth and sizes of the douglas fir trees down near Windigo). The Douglas Fir trees are forecast to be extinct by 2010 due to the moose eating the vegetation of the baby trees. The water was very calm on the way back and no one was seasick.
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