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19

Oct

2004

Some MSMQT Mechanics

This thread in the Biztalk.General newsgroup explains some of the dynamics behind MSMQT operation and also makes clear why the active/dehydrated instances of MSMQT receive locations stay in the HAT tool once all orchestrations and messaging instances have finished with it. To quote the important part in this regard:

Second, InReleaseT. Because MSMQT needs to guarantee ordered delivery, at any point in time only one thread on only one computer in the group must process messages that are delivered to a specific queue. This thread works on some persistent data that is saved and loaded from the database. We call this a MSMQT instance. When the thread is running on a specific computer, we say that the MSMQT instance is "Active". When the data is persisted in the database and there is no one working on it we say that the instance is "Dehydrated". An active MSMQT instance maintains a lock on the queue object in the database, so that no other active instance on any other computer can work on this queue. For load-balancing purposes and to save memory, active MSMQT instances are dehydrated if the queue wasn't used in a while.

Good to note this information comes straight from the horses mouth.

Posted by Mark at 01:54 PM | Comments (0)

15

Oct

2004

Google Desktop Search

Damn this thing rocks. Google has beat MS to the punch! Google Desktop Search indexes a bunch of common file formats and allows you to search you entire computer very quickly. Inside documents, outside documents etc. It is hosted in your web browser, and runs on port 4664. Effectively you could search your own PC from outside a firewall if you open up the port. Not that this would be recommended of course due to security concerns.

Posted by Mark at 09:59 AM | Comments (0)

9

Oct

2004

Some great drift video's over at anti-lag.com

Head over to Anti-lag.com for some great drift and drag combat video's taken during an MC Motorsport drift training day & the drag combat competition, WA round.

I am really missing the Perth modified car scene and modified cars in general. They just don't know how to do it anywhere near as well over here in the UK. To many modified hot hatches and not enough real power cars. I guess with such confined spaces anything over a couple of litres doesn't make very much sense.

Looking forward to getting back to Perth and dropping some cash on something with a decent amount of power and turbo without having to worry about selling a kidney to pay the insurance bill.

Posted by Mark at 08:04 PM | Comments (0)