ISA 2006 - High MSDE memory usage

I came across this issues on a ISA 2006 proxy server the other day. Basically, if you are logging to a MSDE database you may experience high memory usage by SQL server because the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server is not limited by default.

capIt is possible to limit the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server. Recommended values are:

System Memory - Setting

1 GB - 386 MB

2 GB - 512 MB

3 GB - 764 MB

4 GB - 1024 MB

For detailed information on how to set these limits, see the following Microsoft KB article

OS X Cant write to external disk

Err.. yeah.. so, there you are, you need to copy something from your apple mac to your external disk, but it wont allow you.. the disk is not full and it works perfectly on windows.??

I recently encountered this problem, the drive was formatted as NTFS (and why wouldn't it be?) turns out macs can read files off NTFS drives, but they cannot write to an NTFS drive.

Ok, so what now? You can format your external hard drive as FAT32 partition or NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, BeOS and Haiku. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Once installed, it will allow you to write to your NTFS drive without a problem!

WIFI and Hyper-V

Anyone who has played around with server 2008 and hyper-v would have noticed that you are not able to bind a virtual network to a wireless network adapter and more than likely (although i have not personally tested it) a 3g or other mobile broadband card. I guess the reason for this is that most people would probably not need to do this, BUT, I did.. after asking google, I found 3 ways around this, my preferred method is the last one.

Methods: