Pocket Controller skin for AT&T tilt

By Scott, June 24, 2008 10:16 AM

If you use SOTI’s Pocket Controller Professional to control your Windows Mobile device from your desktop, you know that you can display the screen in a skin and control the virtual hardware buttons in PCP.  You can download skins from within PCP, but only during the first year of purchase.  They consider the skin catalog a "service."  After the year is up, you have to purchase the application again (at an upgrade price), which includes product upgrades for the year, too.  However, PCP hasn’t even been updated in a year, so it seems a pretty cheap way to earn revenue, considering SOTI even solicits images from customers to add to the skin catalog.  (They used to provide the entire skin catalog free of charge.)

My work installation is beyond the one year of service, so I couldn’t download a skin for my AT&T Tilt.  My home installation (separate license), however, was within the service year, so I downloaded the skin and copied it to my work installation.  I could not find anything in the program or on SOTI’s site regarding copyright of the skin images, so I am posting the Tilt images (displayed half-size) for anyone who needs it.

Tilt vertical image

Tilt horizontal image

Cannot enter a product key for a 64-bit Exchange 2007 server from the 32-bit management tools

By Scott, June 4, 2008 10:42 AM

The 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 cano be used in a non-production environment only.  As such, there is no need to license the product by entering a product key.  Doing so will only result in the error "Invalid product key".

A side effect of this limitation is that you can also not enter a product key for a valid 64-bit server from a 32-bit installation such as the management tools on a 32-bit OS.  I have a PowerShell script that configures a server, depending on the roles that are installed.  However, the first thing it does for all servers is apply the product key.  This fails because I am running my configuration script from a 32-bit management installation.

I consider this a bug.  The only solution is to run the Set-ExchangeServer command with the -ProductKey parameter on a 64-bit installation of the management tools.

Going to see MercyMe for fourth time. Woohoo!

By Scott, June 1, 2008 5:17 PM

MercyMe goes to a lot of places for touring, but they don’t seem to hit Portland very often.  Two of the three times I have gone to see them has been in the metro area, with the other being up in Washington for a county fair.  Perhaps this is because Oregon, based on some metric, is the most unchurched state in the country.  I like to think that we may have fewer regular Sunday service attendees per capita, but that we make up for it by having a much higher percentage of those who actually have a personal relationship with Jesus.

This time, Jen and I will be traveling four hours and 270 miles to the booming metropolis of Central Point, where they will be performing with Casting Crowns on July 27.  The drive will be worth it since we have seats in Row 2 (!!), which will be the best seats we have ever had seeing them.

I look forward to seeing them since they are my favorite CCM band, along with Chris Tomlin.  And I look forward to Bart’s new Hymned album, which he has already recorded and I assume will come out later this year.  If you are a poor, lost soul who hasn’t had the opportunity to listen to MercyMe, go to their website to hear them, or visit their blog to see how even grown men can be childish at heart.

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