Houston Forecast FAIL!!!

This was the forecast on 8/30/11, but what did we get? Nothing, Nada, not even a drop. It is just getting old.



I have never seen the water level of our lake is such low. I can even see the bottom of the lake.

NO rain today!!??

TX is really doomed! The possible rain chance is getting little when the storm from gulf coast made a slight turn toward New Orleans. WHY? Don't we deserve some rain after 8 months drought?

Extracted from Chron.com

Here’s the updated outlook for what Lee means for the Houston area from ImpactWeather‘s Fred Schmude:

Temperatures will remain fairly hot over the region today and tomorrow and gradually decrease on Sunday through the early to middle part of next week as the effects of the front start to impact the region with lows falling in the 60s and highs struggling to make 90 degrees over most of the Houston area by next Tuesday and Wednesday.

As for rain, unfortunately the chances for seeing some much needed widespread rainfall in the Houston area has subsided thanks in large part to drier air filtering southward on the west side of the tropical cyclone. Several days ago it appeared we could see some much needed widespread rainfall over the area; however, the developing tropical cyclone is acting as a sponge east of the area and absorbing most of the tropical moisture that normally would have already been over southeast Texas if it were not for the tropical system south of Louisiana.

It’s still possible we could see some fast moving showers and isolated thunderstorms moving across the area on the west side of the tropical cyclone through Sunday, but most areas will probably not see much in the way of rainfall as the tropical cyclone moves inland over Louisiana this weekend.   The extended outlook calls for another reinforcing surge of cooler and drier air maintaining the early fall weather pattern into the 2^nd week of September.

Got that? If we don’t get some unlikely rain this weekend, it’s going to be dry until at least the 12th of September or so. The forecast is almost the exact opposite for Louisiana and areas to its northeast.

What the hell!!

Active Directory operation failed on "DC1". You cannot retry this operation: "Insufficient access rights to perform the operation"

I got this error when tried to enable certain users in Lync Server Control Panel.
Then I followed the resolution in MS KB 2466000 regarding "Enable-CsUser", however I got the error saying "Enable-CsUser: Specified SIP domain (SipDomain) is not valid. Specify a valid DIP domain and then tray again. Blah blah blah.

I finally came cross to the page below:
Enable-CsUer Commandlet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398711.aspx

Then simply followed this command and enabled the problematic users by using "SamAccountName" parameter.

Enable-CsUser -Identity "Pilar Ackerman" -RegistrarPool "atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com" -SipAddressType SamAccountName  -SipDomain litwareinc.com

Rain Rain PLEASE Come!

The lengthy drought has made me depressed. Looks like the relief is coming. Very excited. Please don't let me down.



 

 

IE9 failed to open after Win7 SP1 installed

Symptom:

1. Got this error at startup. "The ordinal 379 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll."
   


2. Checked the update history and found out the 'failed' status in "Windows Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7". Opened it up and got the "Error Code 355"

I thought this could be a difficult fix or hard-to-find-solutions problem after a quick google search without luck.

Eventually I came cross Microsoft KB 929833, and decided to give a shot by running 'sfc /scannow' command. It took a good 30 minutes and told me to reboot in the command prompt. I did and to my surprise, the IE9 opened up.

SQL Backup Script

To create a simple backup job by using SQL Server Agent in MS SQL Server Management Studio

DECLARE @BackupPath VARCHAR(100)

SET @BackupPath = '\\<UNC Path>\PM_' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 112) + '.bak'

BACKUP DATABASE [<database_name>]

TO DISK = @BackupPath
GO

 

Step by Step Site to Site VPN setup

A good video demos the Site-to-site VPN tunnel setup on ASA.

http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000072.htm