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TFS Express 2012 Express limits

TFS Express 2012 Express limits Is limited to no more than 5 named users. Only supports SQL Server Express Edition (which we’ll install for you, if you don’t have it) Can only be installed on a single server (no multi-server configurations) Excludes the TFS Proxy and the new Preemptive analytics add-on. References: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10926189/whats-missing-in-tfs-express http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/02/23/coming-soon-tfs-express.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Got-some-questions-about-TFS-Express-2012

Samba share not working after reboot on Ubuntu 12.10

So I just installed Samba server on Ubuntu 12.10, configured it, restarted the daemon and everything is happy. But when I reboot the machine, Samba share always stops working. Restarting the daemon will make it work. I am not sure what's going but adding the following in sbmd.conf seems to fix it. start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)

Fixing staf: error while loading shared libraries: libSTAF.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 Assuming you have installed STAF in Lubuntu (13.04 in my case), running staf local ping ping you may observe the following error: staf: error while loading shared libraries: libSTAF.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory To fix this, modify/add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ~/.bashrc like: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/staf/lib"

Set Lubuntu to autologon

To set Lubuntu (tested using 13.04 minimal install) to auto-logon, change /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf , see below for samle cofiguration. [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=timus autologin-timeout=0 user-session=Lubuntu greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter References: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1472113

Recording VNC session

Recording VNC session sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo easy_install vnc2flv sudo apt-get install vlc Create ~/vnc/passwd (text file) with the clear text password flvrec.py -P ~/vnc/passwd <IP> In Ubuntu, stop recording by sending SIGINT, like kill -s SIGINT 7705 . Where 7705 is the process ID of the python flvrec.py run.

The following packages have been kept back

In Ubuntu (or Debian and other derivatives), you might observe the following message when performing sudo apt-get upgrade . The following packages have been kept back To get rid of this one, do: $: sudo apt-get install <package name(s)> For example, below was one of the error messages I am getting: The following packages have been kept back     linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic To fix this do: $: sudo apt-get linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic