.NET From India

Fixing Bugcheck 6B in Windows 7

I just got a new Laptop (well my older one conked out and had no choice :()

I had just used it for 1 day and when I tried booting it today morning I was getting blue screen "Procces1_initialization_failed". So basically could not get the thing started.

So I tried seeing if startup repair could fix it. It could'nt. But the detailed error description from startup repair did throw up the info that the root cause was Bugcheck 6B...

A web search turned up a number of pages, but most were just error description. I found an post on one of the groups that mentioned that this was due to a corrupted boot cached and recommended booting from the source media and then deleting the bootcache.

In Win 7 startup repair (in advanced options) you have the option of starting a console/command window. So I just opened up a command window. The boot cache is a file called bootcat.cache and can be found in <Window>\system32\Code Integrity.

Just cd'ed into that dir and deleted the .cache file.

A reboot set everything right...

Why is Salesforce.com So Worried about Microsoft? Really??

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2011/06/09/why-is-salesforce-com-so-worried-about-microsoft.aspx

Came across this.. Well MS CRM is growing fast, but does just saying we are better than x makes you better?? The post remainds me of a marketing collateral... :)

SOASchool.com Workshop in India

As people who read my blog know, last year I completed the Certified SOA Architect certification. This is award by a company called soaschool.com, which is run by Thomas Erl, who is a well know author on SOA.

They also run workshops that help you prepare for the exams. I attended one of those before I took my exams. Even if you do not plan to take the certifications, these workshops can help you understand SOA.

They now have a workshop scheduled in Bengaluru (Bangalore), the first in India, in August.

Check it out at http://soaschool.com/workshops/bangalore0811