Packages required:

• mkvtoolnix
• bzip2
• boost-filesystem
• boost-system

Then, you need to set an environment variable of LANG=C.  This can be done from the command line.

Tada, works!

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=36845&start=15

Well, after some initial indoor trials, he took it outside for some flying.  It was a bit windy, and we were only using the small battery packs we had (1300mAh), but it was crazy fun.  The GPS lock on his is nuts.  I wish I was filming when the wind picked up and the quad banked into it...under its own brain power.

These things are crazy fun, and driving one is just like a first person shooter.  I was pretty worried about how the controls would be, but after flying his, I'm not worried at all.  Now I just wait for the servo wires and frame to get here, and I'm off to flying too!

A few pics and videos from the D800...

1. Run InstallUtil against the Common and Caching dlls
   1. %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll
   2. %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching.dll
2. Update the web.config to include the following items:
   1. <configSections><section name="instrumentationConfiguration" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Instrumentation.Configuration.InstrumentationConfigurationSection, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common, Version=4.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" /></configSections>
   2. <instrumentationConfiguration performanceCountersEnabled="true" eventLoggingEnabled="false" wmiEnabled="false" applicationInstanceName="" />
3. Counters should show up on the server as Enterprise Library Cache Performance Counters

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The guys on the ground were pulling their hair out, as they had followed the instructions from two corroborating sites.  Unfortunately, even with all of that setup, images were not being successfully added to AD.

Knowing how much fun FIM is, I did a bit of banging prior to arriving on site and found an article that sounded very similar to the issues they were having.  Turns out it was the answer, but I'm going to duplicate a bit of it here just in case it disappears.

1. You have correctly configured FIM to sync the images correctly as per the TechNet article linked above ("sites").
2. Looking in the IIS logs of the mysite (or whatever name is accurate) web app, you see 401.1 214807254 and/or 214807252 errors on anonymous users accessing the thumbnail jpegs.

What you need to do is log into the box where FIM is running as the FIM user sync account.  From there, add your mysite URL to the intranet zone in IE.  Re-run the sync and it should work.

The reason is that the error IIS log error is because FIM is not passing the credentials as it is being challenged.  By adding the mysite to the intranet zone, it will automatically send credentials and not wait to be prompted (unless a GPO has overridden this setting).

The whole point of the NAS was for less power and noise though, so I don't want the desktop on all the time.  My solution was wake-on-lan (WOL) and in Windows 7 it worked great.  However, over the past couple of days, I've upgraded to Windows 8 RTM and I couldn't get WOL working when the machine was powered off.  It worked great when the machine was asleep, but not completely off (most of the time).

Turns out the default realtek NIC drivers in Windows 8 aren't really the best, but downloading the Windows 8 drivers from the realtek website fixed the issues.

P.S. Being able to run Hyper-V instead of Virtualbox is nice, plus you don't loose hibernation!

1. Enable the web station from the web services icon in control panel.  This gives you Apache
2. Add the following lines to the end of /usr/syno/apache/conf/httpd.conf-user (you must re-do this after doing a DSM update).  Replace <accessPath> with a name, and <port> with the port it is running on.  For example, http://localhost:8080/party.

   LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
   LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   
   <Location /<accessPath>>
   ProxyPass http://localhost:<port>/<accessPath>
   ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:<port>/<accessPath>
   </Location>
   

3. Restart apache with "/usr/syno/etc.defaults/rc.d/S97apache-user.sh restart"

Just make sure whatever service you are doing this with has a base url of <accessPath>.

• 10" or 11" display with >=200ppi
• Minimum of 8 hour battery life
• Ivy Bridge CPU
• Active Digitiser for pen support (yay OneNote!)
• TPM Module
• WIDI or WHDI
• USB 3 port
• HDMI port
• 64-128GB SSD
• >=4GB RAM (would like it to be upgradeable)
• Ideally, the ability to drive 2 24" external monitors

Based on what I've seen so far, this definitely looks like it could be possible in the very near future!

Update: Well, after the MSFT announcement, it looks like we have a tablet that is definitely a front-runner (Pro).  There are some outstanding questions, but it looks like it ticks most of the boxes...

• 10" or 11" display with >=200ppi - 207 ppi!
• Minimum of 8 hour battery life - No idea yet...
• Ivy Bridge CPU - Yes!
• Active Digitiser for pen support (yay OneNote!) - Yes!
• TPM Module - We think so!
• WIDI or WHDI - No idea yet...
• USB 3 port - Yes!
• HDMI port - DisplayPort gives the same flexibility!
• 64-128GB SSD - Yes!
• >=4GB RAM (would like it to be upgradeable) - Not sure, but should be 4GB!
• Ideally, the ability to drive 2 24" external monitors - No, but a matrox dualhead2go would work.

netstat -lnptu | grep :<port#>

This will give you the PID of the service, and then you can run

kill <PID>

or

kill -9 <PID>

if just a regular kill doesn't work.

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