Sometimes you may need to let user run your .Net application without installing .Net framework.
There are several tools called “.Net Linker” which pack a .Net application with all needed files into a single package.

Here are some of them:
• http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/
• http://www.xenocode.com/Products/Postbuild-for-NET/
• http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/

Are you faced to a 401 status code when invoking mvn site:deploy?

Like this one?
Embedded error: Failed to transfer file: http://server:port/dir/projectname//./changes-report.html. Return code is: 401


Then

1. check your pom.xml if the site-id in the distribution-section of the pom.xml matches any server-id setting in your settings.xml.
2. check if the password is still valid!

For example the following pom.xml and settings.xml DO NOT match. Note the difference between BARNAME and FOONAME! This cannot work.

pom.xml:

   <distributionManagement>
     <site>
       <!-- does not match FOONAME -->
       <id>BARNAME</id>
       <url>${site-base-url}/projectname/</url>
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>

.m2/settings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0

http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

  <servers>
    <server>
       <!-- does not match BARNAME -->
      <id>FOONAME</id>
      <username>XXXXXX</username>
      <password>XXXXXX</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

A caller has attempted to import a transaction from a remote system, but MSDTC is currently configured to disallow inbound transaction manager communication on machine. Please review the MS DTC configuration settings.

To enable network DTC access and configure Windows Firewall on Windows Vista:

1. Click Start, click Run, type dcomcnfg and then click OK to open Component Services.
2. In the console tree, click to expand Component Services, click to expand Computers, click to expand My Computer, click to expand Distributed Transaction Coordinator and then click Local DTC.
3. Right click Local DTC and click Properties to display the Local DTC Properties dialog box.
4. Click the Security tab.

Set the following options on the Security tab of the Local DTC Properties dialog box and click OK.

1. Open the Control Panel, open Windows Firewall, and click Change settings to display Windows Firewall Settings.
2. Click the Exceptions tab.

Check the box for Distributed Transaction Coordinator and click OK.

Make sure you select Mutual Authentication on your Biztalk server DTC settings also.

I am sad to report that a mass murder has occurred today at Fort Hood, Texas.Twelve people were killed and 31 wounded when gunmen opened fire at the massive Fort Hood Army Base in Texas just after 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

More casualties are expected to be reported in the coming hours. One of the gunmen was also reportedly killed.

The motive for the bloodbath was unknown.

A serviceman stationed at Fort Hood who asked to remain anonymous reported: “I heard the emergency announcement over the speakers outside and saw people rushing to get indoors.

In our office we’re okay but we’re hearing about the deaths. It’s horrible and very shocking.

“We are still on lockdown. I am hearing that at least nine people may be dead. This is so terrible and frightening.”

The F.B.I. is dispatching a group of agents to investigate this heinous crime.

There were two scenes for this crime,the first shooting began at about 1:30 p.m. at a personnel and medical processing office. The facility, called a Soldier Rating and Processing center, handles administrative details for soldiers.

Reports are stating that  two shooters were apparently involved. There was no immediate word on who they were, nor on identities of the dead.

 The second incident took place at a theater on the sprawling base.Another Army official identified that site as the Howze Theater.

An official, who requested anonymity to discuss the  evolving incident, said a graduation had been scheduled for 2 p.m. at the theater.

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson said in a statement: “I am shocked and saddened by today’s outburst of violence at Fort Hood that has cost seven of our brave service members their lives and has gravely injured others.

“My heart goes out to their loved ones.”

The suspects were in military uniform, witnesses said.

No reasoning has been discovered at this time for these shootings, but they should be viewed as an attack against Amereica.If it is discovered that this is a group from within our citizens, then whatever the caused them, or encouraged them to attack our soldiers within our borders should be looked upon as an act of treason.

I hope that the neocon republican terrorist will not make this inevitable situation any worse than they have created.They have preyed upon the weak-minded of their ilk, and this blood is undoubtedly in their collective hands.

The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan,an Army officer. Two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended,reported Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone ,to the AP news service .

ABC news is reporting that President Obama called the Fort Hood shootings a “horrific outburst of violence.”

“It if difficult enough to lose” soldiers overseas, but said it is “horrifying that they should lose their lives at an Army base in the U.S.,” he said

To view the aftermath of their deeds,do not got to Fox news, but view it here,courtesy of the Associated Press….

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/05/2009-11-05_army_base_massacre_at_least_seven_people_dead_in_mass_shooting_at_fort_hood_in_t.html

UPDATE…It is being reported that the shooter is not one of the deceased.He is in custody….

Disabling a network card when running sysprepping a Windows machine is easy.  Two things need to happen: 

This entry provides instructions for “silently” installing MySQL on a Microsoft Windows server.  I use the term “silent install” to describe the method of passing parameters to the Microsoft Installation Package (MSI) to bypass installation screens.  This allows you to deploy MySQL with your application and to install MySQL without end-user intervention.  The developer can define the install location, the appropriate storage engines, the root password and the server configuration.

Most application developers use some sort of software for creating an application installer.  Common tools include Install Shield, Wise Installation, InstallBuilder and Windows Installer.  These installation software tools can also be used to install MySQL by launching the MySQL MSI and the MySQL Instance configuration utility ( MySQLInstanceConfig.exe ) from the command-line.

To get started, download the Windows Essentials from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads.

Then, look for an option in your installation tool to execute the following:

C:\>msiexec /q /log install.txt /i mysql-advanced-5.1.32-win32.msi datadir=”c:\installs\myapp” installdir=”c:\installs\myapp”

The MSI installer will add MySQL to the start menu, add registry values and add MySQL to the add/remove programs option from the control panel.

To configure the server, prepare the my.ini, set the root password and start the service, you’ll need to execute the following:

C:\>MySQLInstanceConfig.exe -i -q “-lC:\mysql_install_log.txt” “-nMySQL Server 5.1.234” -pC:\installs\myapp”   -v5.1.234  “tc:\installs\myapp\my-small.ini” “-cC:\mytest.ini ServerType=DEVELOPMENT DatabaseType=MIXED ConnectionUsage=DSS Port=3311 ServiceName=MySQLCust RootPassword=1234

This installation method has the benefit of adding MySQL to the control panel and the startup menus.  It also installs the default mysql tables.  The only remaining task is to import your application tables into MySQL by running mysqldump ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html ) on your development server and then loading the dump files into the target server.

In a future blog entry, I’ll discuss launching the mysqld.exe directly without actually installing MySQL.

Ok, So…Kiara got online a few minutes ago and talked me before they rolled out for their mission…
She went through with our deal and slept with someone…I knew before she even told me. I could tell. It hurt at a little at first but then, then she told me something else I had suspected but never dared it true. She may have some kind of feelings for the girl. What’s crazy is I saw it coming. I knew before it happened. I told myself to exclude her from the deal… to let her have anyone but that girl. I didn’t listen to my own instincts…foolishness.
I feel so hurt now…
I don’t really know what to feel, what is the right emotion?

I’m not going to be able to do this. I can’t sleep with other people…
And I definitely cannot stand the thought of someone else touching her. Making her moan, making her come…
WHAT WAS I THINKING????

Can anyone make sense of this?  ….i can’t.

-xx

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:

With President Obama mulling a new strategy — and new force levels — in Afghanistan, a key Senate Democrat said today that he expects the administration to send additional forces to help train Afghan troops, separate from any decision the president makes on combat troops.

“There’s an emerging consensus that additional trainers have to be deployed, because the key in the long term to avoid the repetition of this cycle is an Afghani security force that is capable and can provide basic stability,” Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line” today.

“So that is something I think everyone can see to be increased. The real issue is brigade combat teams, the combat forces. My sense is that — as has been reported — the president is looking at several options, including an increase — I don’t know what the number is — but including an increase to those forces.”

The comments by Reed, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Army ranger, suggest that President Obama will be sending more troops to Afghanistan even if he rejects Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation for additional combat forces.

Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., has endorsed the concept of sending more training troops instead of boosting the number of US combat troops.

But any move to increase US troop levels in Afghanistan is likely to provoke strong opposition from some Democrats in Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said she doesn’t detect “a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan” in Congress.

Reed also said that Matthew Hoh’s resignation in protest over Afghanistan policy got his attention.

Hoh last month left his post as the senior US civilian in Zabul province, writing that he had “lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan.”

“I think it underscores the need for evaluation of what’s been done there unfortunately,” Reed said. “And I’ve been over to the country on a number of occasions. You know, four or five years ago it was a much different place in terms of security, in terms of potential, in terms of what we could have done. But now, I think through the wrong-headed approach to Iraq by the Bush administration, we’re now in a situation in Afghanistan that’s much more complicated. The Taliban has re-formed. There is growing frustration by the people, not only with their government, but also with the fact that we haven’t produced the immediate benefits that they assume.”

“So I think it just reflects a great deal of frustration, but also underscores the need to step back and analyze our policy and our strategy.”

On health care, Reed applauded the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to include a public option in the health care bill that will come to the Senate floor — even if that means not a single Republican will support the measure.

“I think the important issue is to try and do it right,” Reed said. “If we can get a bill through simply for the sake of being bipartisan, that doesn’t work. That’s not going to help the country — nor, particularly, our caucus. I think we have to do it right. I think the public option is a right thing to do.”

Though the provision Reid is backing in the Senate bill isn’t the “robust” public option many liberals are calling for, Reed said he thinks the plan — which would give states the opportunity to “opt out” of a public option — would do enough.

“I think it does enough,” Reed said. “I think with a public option, you will have an opportunity for people to go and to find health care and to do it in a way in which they will not be sort of unfairly dealt with.”

Click HERE to see the full interview with Sen. Jack Reed.

We also checked in with Republican strategist Kevin Madden, on the conservatives’ split in the race in an upstate New York House district, plus the latest on health care reform.

Click HERE to see that portion of today’s program.

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:

With President Obama mulling a new strategy — and new force levels — in Afghanistan, a key Senate Democrat said today that he expects the administration to send additional forces to help train Afghan troops, separate from any decision the president makes on combat troops.

“There’s an emerging consensus that additional trainers have to be deployed, because the key in the long term to avoid the repetition of this cycle is an Afghani security force that is capable and can provide basic stability,” Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line” today.

“So that is something I think everyone can see to be increased. The real issue is brigade combat teams, the combat forces. My sense is that — as has been reported — the president is looking at several options, including an increase — I don’t know what the number is — but including an increase to those forces.”

The comments by Reed, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Army ranger, suggest that President Obama will be sending more troops to Afghanistan even if he rejects Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation for additional combat forces.

Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., has endorsed the concept of sending more training troops instead of boosting the number of US combat troops.

But any move to increase US troop levels in Afghanistan is likely to provoke strong opposition from some Democrats in Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said she doesn’t detect “a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan” in Congress.

Reed also said that Matthew Hoh’s resignation in protest over Afghanistan policy got his attention.

Hoh last month left his post as the senior US civilian in Zabul province, writing that he had “lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan.”

“I think it underscores the need for evaluation of what’s been done there unfortunately,” Reed said. “And I’ve been over to the country on a number of occasions. You know, four or five years ago it was a much different place in terms of security, in terms of potential, in terms of what we could have done. But now, I think through the wrong-headed approach to Iraq by the Bush administration, we’re now in a situation in Afghanistan that’s much more complicated. The Taliban has re-formed. There is growing frustration by the people, not only with their government, but also with the fact that we haven’t produced the immediate benefits that they assume.”

“So I think it just reflects a great deal of frustration, but also underscores the need to step back and analyze our policy and our strategy.”

On health care, Reed applauded the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to include a public option in the health care bill that will come to the Senate floor — even if that means not a single Republican will support the measure.

“I think the important issue is to try and do it right,” Reed said. “If we can get a bill through simply for the sake of being bipartisan, that doesn’t work. That’s not going to help the country — nor, particularly, our caucus. I think we have to do it right. I think the public option is a right thing to do.”

Though the provision Reid is backing in the Senate bill isn’t the “robust” public option many liberals are calling for, Reed said he thinks the plan — which would give states the opportunity to “opt out” of a public option — would do enough.

“I think it does enough,” Reed said. “I think with a public option, you will have an opportunity for people to go and to find health care and to do it in a way in which they will not be sort of unfairly dealt with.”

Click HERE to see the full interview with Sen. Jack Reed.

We also checked in with Republican strategist Kevin Madden, on the conservatives’ split in the race in an upstate New York House district, plus the latest on health care reform.

Click HERE to see that portion of today’s program.

Virtualizing business-critical applications delivers significant customer benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we focus on virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server using Microsoft solutions, we discuss the benefits of using Microsoft virtualization technologies instead of technologies from key competitors such as VMware, and we provide guidance and technical best practices for virtualizing SQL Server in various production, test, and development scenarios. Topics we cover include consolidation, scale, load balancing, dynamic provisioning, and high availability. We also discuss customer results from lab deployment tests.

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I admit I’ve been distracted lately. Ok, maybe distracted is too weak a word. How about overwhelmed? Yeah. That fits better.

My “duties” as a military parent are not so obvious to others now that Mike is back in the US. However, I have many organizations that I am a member of that are not dependent on what country my son is in at the time. Sometimes, they seem to overrun my life and then when I try to weed through and thin out those that I could let go of with certainty that someone would fill the position…I am at a loss. It seems that many people are not so interested in helping those outside their immediate family circle. So I will continue to be sporadic here, and keep on chugging along in all my other endeavors. One thing that can not be let go any further though is my income. Gotta pay those bills, right? So today is dedicated to getting my store in order, as well as it can be. I’ll try to space out my bombardment of new items so you aren’t wondering whether I gave up the Army Mom gig and moved over to Retail Store Mom.

Thanks to everyone that has visited so far! I do appreciate you all!

And without further adieu.. here is my newest shirt…

Custom Girlfriend of a Deployed Soldier Shirt