Below is a list of National Weather Service Zone Forecast codes for major ski resorts in the West. 

NWS_Resort_Forecast_Zones.pdf (65.00 kb)

Zone Forecast Discussions for Colorado can be found here: http://www.weather.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=co&prodtype=zone

_{Tip of the hat to http://jlaccess.tripod.com/}

Here's the video interview my grandfather did talking about his WWII experiences getting shot down over France.  I edited the video for content, and you can view it at the following link (right the link and click Save As to download a copy for yourself).

Burl Huitt - His Experiences in WWII, In His Own Words

1. Download the appropriate driver.  You'll need an INF file to complete the install.
2. CD to the root of your WinPE build folder. 
3. Mount your WinPE boot.wim (imagex /mountrw .\ISO\sources\boot.wim 1 .\mount).
4. Install the driver (peimg /inf=<full path to INF file> .\mount\windows)
5. Unmount the WinPE image (imagex /unmount .\mount /commit)
6. Optional: Create a new ISO for burning to CD (oscdimg -n -b<path to etfsboot.com> <file name of ISO to create>)

Here, are instructions for integrating the Hyper-V RTM (!) Integration Components device drivers into a WinPE image.  This is based on Mike Sterling's post on the same topic, however the scripts below have been updated to use RTM Hyper-V bits.

1. Create your WinPE build folder, if you haven't already done so.  See Building a WinPE Image from Scratch for help (follow only steps 1 through 5).
2. In the root of your build folder, download the appropriate integration batch file from the bottom of this post.
3. Locate Windows6.0-KB951634-x86.msu.  This file is on the c:\windows\system32\vmguest.iso, located on any Hyper-V enabled host.  The update file should be located in the Support folder of the ISO.  Copy this file to the root of your WinPE build folder - the same location as your integration batch script.
4. From the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt, execute the integration script.  If everything went correctly, you'll see "PEIMG completed the operation successfully." listed seven times in the output of the script.
5. At this point your WinPE build is updated.  Resume steps 7 through 9 in Building a WinPE Image from Scratch to complete the process.

If you have questions about the above, please e-mail me at jason.huitt@colostate.edu - I've run both of these scripts successfully as of today, and now have working x86 and x64 WinPE ISOs.  My trust WinPE flash drive has been updated as well.  You'll love the integrated mouse and NIC support when building Hyper-V VMs.  No more Legacy Network Adapter!

Integrate_x86.bat (1.10 kb)

Integrate_x64.bat (1.12 kb)

A breath of fresh air: Windows Mobile 6.1 for the Samsung Ace.  Finally.

http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/i325/upgrade/

I'm blogging this from my laptop, tethered to my Ace.  It's no long necessary to "unlock" the device, as they've set the security profile correctly to allow installation of apps.  To tether a newly updated Ace:

http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1318.entry

Guest OS processor utilization will not affect processor utilization on the host OS, per se.

The best Windows Mobile SmartPhone in the world just got better:

• Download Sprint Developer certificates here: http://developer.sprint.com/show_thread.do?forumId=116&threadid=25821
• Copy sdkcerts_samsungAce_signed.cab to your device, install and reboot.
• Download the Windows Mobile device Security Configuration Manager (SCM): https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e92628c-d587-47e0-908b-09fee6ea517a&displaylang=en
• Install the Security Configuration Manager.
• Copy c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Security Configuration Manager\tool.cab to your device, install and reboot.
• Connect the Ace to your PC.  When Windows Mobile Device Center (or ActiveSync on XP) has connected to the device, load the SCM.
• A locked Ace will show as configured to set to "Two Tier Prompt".  Select "One Tier Prompt" and click Provision.  Disconnect and reboot your device.
• Note: At this point you have enabled unsigned software installation on the Ace, as well as enabled Registry editing on the device.
• On the Ace, download the PHM Registry Editor for SmartPhones: http://www.phm.lu/downloads/download.aspx?{940B734A-C437-41C7-ADED-2A4418802FD3}
  • Agree to the license, then select the "Smartphone 2002/2003 (ARM/PXA)" download.
• Install and run the Registry editor.
• Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\InternetSharing and remove the value "InternetSharingEx.dll" from the key "Extension".
• Reboot the phone.
• Attach the Ace to your laptop.
• On the Ace, go to Start and "Internet Sharing", and hit the Connect softkey.  Your laptop should see a new NDIS device, and automatically connect to the Internet.

Daily Show favorite and all around smart guy Fareed Zakaria absolutely skewers Sarah Palin in this recent Newsweek column. From the article: "In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204

Today I encountered a volume-licensed Vista box that had not been activated for more than 180 days.  I was under the impression that Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) had gone away with Service Pack 1, however when I attempted to log into the box, I was greated with an activation dialog box, and clicking cancel returned me to a log on prompt.  Here's how I got back around the problem...

• From the Activation dialog, click on one of the Help links.  This will pull up the Help and Support window.
• In Help and Support, do a search for "command prompt".  One of the returned links will show you how to open a command prompt, and will provide a link to do this for you.  Go ahead and open the command prompt in this manner - while I was in this activation mode, I was unable to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to pull up Task Manager, and had to get to a place where I could actually do some work.
• If you need to connect to a VPN in order to access your company's KMS server, do so now.
• In order to manually activate Vista from the command line, you have to run slmgr.vbs from an elevated command prompt.  How do you launch an elevated command prompt without right clicking on an icon to launch a UAC prompt?  Here's a nifty trick:
  • Run "control schedtasks" to bring up the Task Scheduler interface.
  • Create a new task to run cmd.exe without any triggers.  Also make sure to check the option for "Run with highest privileges" on the General tab.  This will set the task up to run with elevation.
  • Right click your newly created task and click Run.  Lo and behold, you've got a command prompt running with elevation!  Note "Administrator: taskeng.exe" in the title of the command prompt window.
• Now that you are elevated, run "cscript slgr.vbs -ato".  Assuming this volume-licensed copy of Vista had been previously activated, you should now be re-activated.
• Log off using the "logoff" command, and then log back in.  At this point you should be staring at your desktop once again.

The fine folks at First Read have published the following analysis of the Bush Administration's financial sector bailout plan.  http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/23/1436850.aspx

-- $700 billion: proposed Wall St. bailout
-- $695.4 billion: GDP of Taiwan. If the bailout were a country it would be the 21st largest GDP, larger than most nations.
-- $580 billion: cost of Iraq war (so far)
-- $515.4 billion: proposed 2009 Pentagon budget
-- $315 billion: McCain's nuclear energy plan
-- $295 billion: amount Pentagon overspent original budgets by.
-- $150 billion: Obama's energy plan
-- $50-$65 billion: Obama's health care plan, per year
-- $59.2 billion: proposed 2009 U.S. education budget
-- $10 billion: McCain health care proposals, per year
-- $38 million: Hank Paulson's post-2004 salary as Chairman, CEO of Goldman Sachs
-- 16.1 million: number of median Ohio household incomes ($43,371 as of 2004) that would add up to the bailout -- or about THREE Ohios.