Negotiating the space/port limitations
First off, please note that this is not a complaint about the size of the MBAir's SSD drive nor about its one USB port; I've had the machine for a week today, and took it on a business trip with me this week, and had this amazing moment upon leaving security of having to double-check my bag to make sure I had really put my laptop back in it. It's an absolute joy to travel with, and for the majority of what I do (which is sit and write), it's more than enough machine.
But here's the thing: I have a fairly big iTunes library. And I knew I was going to get a portable external hard drive to go with the MBAir (I got a 320GB WD Passport), and so I figured -- hey, genius! -- I'll put my iTunes library on the external drive. And it works like a charm, of course.
Except for the one detail I forgot: The MBAir is now my primary home machine (I have a new iMac in the office). And I've been using my home machine as my iPhone syncing station, and would like to keep it that way. But if I have to have the external drive connected in order to run iPhone -- well, there goes my USB port.
I can imagine several possibilities:
1. Using a USB hub, like perhaps the USB Squid, so that I can connect both the external drive and the iPhone at the same time. However, the (admittedly semi-ancient) USB hub I currently have passes enough power to the external drive to run it, but not to the iPhone (or, for that matter, to the USB-ethernet adapter). So I'm guessing that the Squid won't solve the problem, either.
2. Splitting my iTunes library so that the stuff I'm syncing to the iPhone is actually on the SSD, and everything else on the external drive. This obviously isn't the forum in which to ask if that would work, but if you've had experience with that, let me know.
3. Rearranging stuff so that the iTunes library is on the SSD and other stuff is on the external drive. Could be done, I guess, but I'd really rather not unless I absolutely have to. This was a nice, clean solution, that doesn't require me to hook up the external drive for most of my work.
4. Moving my primary iPhone syncing station to the office. Which I'd also rather not, as I'd prefer to be able to charge at home, and as the iPhone causes pretty bad interference in the external speakers I use in the office.
Are there other possibilities that you can imagine that I haven't thought of? If you're facing similar space/port issues, how have you resolved them?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
My practice is to keep itunes music on an external hard drive. When syncing my iphone, I choose to not sync music after my first sync was finished. My music doesn't change frequently enough to worry about syncing it every time. Most important to me are other frequently changing information such as calendar and address book. You can connect multiple devices to your USB port but the USB hub must have external power to allow your external hard drive to work.
So all of my files and programs including Office 2008 and Parallels reside on my internal SSD drive. Music and photos are all on the external drive. Connect both your iphone and USB drive for the first sync and select all music and photos you want on your iphone transfered. Then deselect music and photos for future sync transfers. Connect all your USB devices and sync all when you have new music and photos you want to have on your iphone.
I also use a program called Xslimmer to reduce the size of most applications files. It automatically takes out the parts of programs you seldom use such as non-english files. This saves several gig on your SSD. My MBair has all Apple programs, Parallels with 10 gig virtual drive, office and all my data files. I still have 28 gig available.
Good luck and enjoy.
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My second question if relevant would be what are the limitations?
Thank you for your help on this topic.
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Press the power button to turn on the computer.
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So, a typical Lync deployment looks like this:
Internal users
|
443
|
Internal LB
192.168.0.20
443 443
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Lync FE 1 Lync FE 2
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4443 4443
External LB
Public IP Address
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443
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External Users
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You can leave your feedback by following the link below:
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[Forum FAQ] How to tell if the DAC port is automatically changed or not
Introduction
Per Books Online:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189595.aspx
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Also, we can go to the following registry to specify the DAC port number manually:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\AdminConnection\Tcp
The error log contains the port number the DAC is listening on. Besides looking at the error log, how to find which port is used by DAC connection and how to tell if the DAC port is manually set by us or assigned automatically by SQL Server?
Solution
The following query can be used to check if there is an existing DAC connection and it also give us the port number used by dedicated admin connection.
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Here is the scenario to test if the DAC port is automatically changed or not.
There are two instances are running on one server. I specified the same DAC port number 5555 for the two SQL Server instances by modifying the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\AdminConnection\Tcp
Opened the DAC connection to instance 1. Executed the above query, it returns the result:
name
local_tcp_port
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Then, opened a DAC connection to instance 2. It throw out the following error message:
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 : Client unable to establish connection because an error was encountered during handshakes before login.
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DAC port will not change even SQL Server service is restarted only if the TCP port is available.
More Information
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189595.aspx
Applies to
SQL Server 2012
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.I tested your script after
establishing a DAC connection from SSMS 2014. It worked as described. Thank you.
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join sys.endpoints e
on (ec.endpoint_id=e.endpoint_id)
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Query Designer is not picking the host:port
Dear All
We have installed BI 7.0 on Netweaver 2004s alongwith BI Java. When we run a query and execute it does not pick the hostname:port but come as
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2. When there is no corresponding entry in TCURX, these two decimals
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The above number is displayed as 123.45
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example INR currency.
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Object Services - What are the space restrictions?
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Many thanks!
MarkHi Mark
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My English is poor, you don't laugh when you read it.
Thank you a lot.SachaE wrote:
> LabVIEW 7.0 cannot use the built-in In/Out Port VIs with a 32-bit
> address. Instead, you will have to use the versions of these VIs found
> in previous versions of LabVIEW.
Are you talking about physical memory access here? If so that is
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And at least up to the first Pentium models it was definitely never
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> Actually, the In Port and Out Port VIs are intended for 16-bit port
> I/O and not for writing to arbitrary addresses in memory. For this
> reason, writing to 32-bit addresses never should have been allowed.
I think the VIs to access physical memory addresses were different than
the ones to access IO addresses. And yes it is definitely not a good
idea to have an application poke into physical memory as it could
completely screw the system to the point where you couldn't start it
anymore. Also IO devices mapped into memory address space are almost
always typically plug and play devices, so their address is not really
fixed and you need to do quite some more work on OS level to enumerate
your hardware and find the resources used before trying to access it.
This is something not really suited to try to do in LabVIEW and
therefore should be at least implemented as DLL but in fact anything but
a device driver is a very bad kludge.
> One possible work-around would be to use NI-VISA to perform
> register-level programming. NI-VISA gives you access to any PXI/PCI
> board, not only NI boards, and can be used to access the board's
> registers.
>
> http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/ADF3152837E2B4A486256B5600642AC7?opendocument
Thanks for this. Didn't now this existed in NI-VISA. Will check it out.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions
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