Fix a scattered music collection

One of the best new things tried and tested my me is Music (Beta) by Google

http://music.google.com/






Once registered with your existing gmail account it gives you an option to download the music uploader. Just download the music uploader application to your Windows, MAC or Linux computer and start uploading all your albums.

You can upload all your music from all your ripped music folders or your itunes collection. Uploading might take a while over your broadband connection but it's nice to know that you can gather all your music in one place.

20,000 free songs upload is a great thing (each song can be up to 250 MB per individual song)

Each uploaded song can now be streamed and played onto your computer browser (IE, Firefox etc.). I can now listen to my music at my home, office pc or laptop and don't need to depend on carrying around and synching my music on all separate devices.

An Android app is also available to listen to your collection while you're on the go. You can register up to 8 music devices for playback on your collection. However, simultaneous playback is limited to a single device and hopefully this will change when the service comes out of Beta.

You can also listen to your streaming music on your iPhone from the Safari browser on the phone. It works flawlessly over streaming over my slow EDGE GPRS network. Pretty good for a casual listener like myself.


You also get a lot of free music if you wish to add those to your collection.





You can also add more free music daily using the integrated Magnifier service.

http://magnifier.blogspot.com/




Libvirt connection does not support interface management

Incidentally, if you manage your kvm configured server through Virtual Manager in Ubuntu, you get the error that libvirt does not support network management.

I was trying to create a bridged network - by default VMM only creates a NAT connection and you need a little work around to setup a bridged network.

Check out the support provided here - http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking

and get your "brctl show" command to display the bridge as the following screenshot



Index was outside the bounds of the array. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

Microsoft SQL Express edition 2008 R2 issue when connecting to Azure database:

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Attempt+to+retrieve+data+for+object+Server&LinkId=20476
------------------------------ Index was outside the bounds of the array. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)














This was fixed by updating SQL 2008 R2 Express edition with SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26729

As the datacenters get upgraded, the version number of the database engine will increase, which will result in errors when connecting with the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) management tool.

To verify you have the latest version of SSMS, open the tool, click on the help menu, and select ‘About’.  You’ll get a dialog box listing version numbers of various SQL Server components.  The first row, “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio” should have a version greater or equal to 10.50.1777.0 once you’ve installed the updates.

My updated version is 10.50.2500.0
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