To do good as well as to do evil, a Wi-Fi network scanner is almost essential, and although the shell attracts a lot, seeing moving colors has attracted us all since childhood.

inSSIDer is a beautiful, simple scanner, although with a technical visualization, and above all multiplatform.

When setting up a Wi-Fi network, whether your home or a more extensive one, it is advisable to view the frequency spectrum that covers said area. And since today our eyes are not capable of switching to Wi-Fi mode, with this program we can make the task easier in a graphic and simple way.

Although Libreoffice is receiving a big push lately from both Oracle and IBM with the transfer of Symphony, it must be recognized that the ribbons of Ms Office 2007 continue to be of great usability, along with other correction features, and obviously compatibility with docx. Therefore, on certain occasions its use is recommended.

In this case we are going to see how to run it from Debian without excessive problems. First we update to the latest version of Wine

A few days ago, Luis Molina informed me of the new launch of his code generator, completely renewed and with more energy than ever, it has also been renamed, its new name is ….. MyWay.

MyWay is a generator made in C#, capable of facilitating your task by giving you the work of an entire morning or even days, in seconds, not only for projects in C# but also Visual Basic .NET, and even the possibility of creating your own templates so they work in other programming languages. There are also different possibilities of connecting to various Databases.

     Are you an expert in desktop virtualization? Well, you are in luck, since the beta has been opened to be able to certify you under Windows Server 2008 R2.

71-669 TS: Windows ® Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization 
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-669

     Access to this exam is limited, since it is BETA, and will serve to improve the experience for future certificates.  To do this you have to use your “MSL SME” in Connect (http://connect.microsoft.com/site862  ), create your “SME profile”, or update it to be sure that one of your interests is Virtualization. Next March 1st at 9 a.m. on the east coast of the United States, you will be able to register and participate in this exam.

It comes to me from Luis Molina, the opening of a new program, WebsiteSpark, for SMEs that for only $100 you will obtain licenses with a duration of three years for the following products:

• 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
• 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Expression Blend, Sketchflow, and Web)
• 2 licenses of Expression Web 3
• 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2
• 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition
• DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of your servers)

You can also access for free:

I had been hearing about the simplicity of the WiiMoteLib for a while, but since I hadn’t put the Wii through my hands I hadn’t been able to touch them, I finally have the WiiMote at home, and obviously I had to start messing around. This is a simple code on how to connect and take some accelerometer readings, ideal for getting into the use of this device.

First we connect with any program Bluetooth device manager, to the WiiMote by pressing buttons 1 and 2 at the same time, and we connect it as a mouse, human interface, HID, … or whatever your manager calls it.

After my last book written, I return to the fray with a new success that every beginner in systems administration should have (which is not because it is mine, ;) ).   This book is aimed at both users with experience working with server environments and those who want to get started in the field of systems administration by managing various types of services.

The chapters have been structured to facilitate the study and based on the necessary steps that are usually taken in the assembly of all services for a company from its inception. I hope you like it, by the way, I promise a beer to everyone who shows me their purchase!! that is cheap!!

Sometimes it is necessary for us to bypass a firewall to perform certain tasks. Usually because we have left work pending and we intend to get home and continue with the task. Unfortunately, today not all companies agree with teleworking, nor do they have their systems prepared for it, this means that we have to find tricks to access our machine.

First, a hole must be opened to establish communications from a PC inside the firewall to another PC, with an ssh server,

Although it may seem annoying to have to introduce a license, Microsoft has become a little more permissive lately. As we all know, the installation of the fully functional Operating System is allowed without having the license number at hand, leaving us a period of 30/60 days to enter it.

It may always be the case that due to excessive workload, or for virtual machines, we cannot or are not interested in introducing a license and simply evaluating it for a limited time. Therefore, the permissiveness has been greater, giving us the possibility of extending this period with a command to manage the licenses.

One morning you arrive at your PC and you find…… “TFS has expired”, at that moment is when you cry out to heaven, you think… “why didn’t I become a Latin teacher”, and a thousand other ideas, none of them good. But don’t worry, if for some reason you didn’t remember that the version that was installed was the trial one, instead of the good one, your problem has several solutions.

This Thursday we have an event at CLMNET:

 http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359265&Culture=es-ES

Theoretical session in which we will present the new operating system for servers, highlighting in particular the most powerful new features such as IIS7, installation without a graphical interface, and several ways to exploit the command line, both against the Active Directory and playing with UNIX.

Agenda:

- News - IIS 7 - Server Core - PowerShell - Interoperability with Unix

  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359265&Culture=es-ES

We are waiting for you!!!

With the release of the RC0 version that Elias Mereb informed us a few days ago, they are beginning to be completed with documentation of all kinds, Erick, informs us today of the release of a NON-technical document to guide us on how Microsoft sees virtualization and the services of this type that Windows 2008 incorporates

• Windows Server 2008 Virtualization

And by the way, I can’t help but recommend the very basic downloads, which are never a bad thing to read, even if it’s just to relax a little during a monotonous work day:

Echoing a post by our colleague eecsaky, I can’t help but “barrer pa’ casa”, :P

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Those of you who use Internet Explorer 7 will know that there is a search engine at the top right, in which we can change the search provider, pages like Codeproject already include their own search engine there, but what happens if we don’t have it like LaBloguera.NET? Well, relatively simple. In the list of suppliers click on search for more suppliers.

After several months of testing Windows Vista it once again gives me a similar impression to the one I got with Windows ME, a little better, but not much, I see it as unstable, a lover of killing applications, or causing them to commit suicide, and most importantly of inferior usability, I will never get tired of repeating “The Office guys should give usability lessons to the View.”

But I took a little time and tried Windows 2008 without a virtual machine, (I have just piled up 100 positive adjectives to describe it). It follows the philosophy of Windows 2003, which in my opinion is “Let’s make something that works.” Even though it is Beta, it has stability to mention, it is possible to enable almost all, if not all, the graphical functionalities of Vista, and above all IT IS VERY FAST!!!.

Yes, gentlemen, I just missed the notice on my Windows 2003 saying that the update to IE7 is now available, so all users who wish can now have tabs in their IE, and also comply with a greater number of the standards.

I still have a question, would you update to IE7 on a production server? Since Windows is internally based on this browser, we could compromise our system if the logical bugs of the first weeks appear.