Finally we figured that the issue is with his keyboard mapping. MEBx thinks that your are typing on a QWERTY keyboard and if you are in an OS that has a different keyboard mapping, the password will not match. The customer was using a British English keyboard, the layout of which was different than a US keyboard. We asked him to go into MEBx and try to change the computer's network name and type in his password there and take a look at what shows up on the screen – it was not what he thought he was typing.

So here is what you should do if you are using a non-US keyboard – type a password in MEBx as if you have a US keyboard. If you are not sure, go in to MEBx hostname and type a password and look at the results on the screen. Typing a password using only keys that are the same on US keyboards also works.

I've been monitoring how many developers are watching all of the segments of the video series we've posted on the Take Five site.   It is natural that not everyone will make it to the end, but I'm wondering if there is anything we could do better.

First, I'd like to know if any of these are the causes:
  A) Didn't know series were there
  B) Watched the video from a different page w/out the series navigation
  C) Didn't have time to watch them all
  D) The video, well, just wasn't that interesting
  E) My boss walked by, and I had to quickly switch screens from videos
  F)  Other:  ______________ 

Take a look at two of the series we've posted from the Game Developers Conference:  Optimizing DirectX for Mulicore, or the SkullTrail series with GRIN Software* and UbiSoft*.  Or the very long Confronting ManyCore series.   Once a video is playing in the player at the top of the site, there is a link that says "see Next in series" and/or "see Previous in series" to easily (at least I thought) move from one to the next. 

While you in the player, you can rate the videos, get the embed code and direct links, leave comments, and/or link back to the blogs.

To see more series, they are in "series boxes" on the tabs below the Take Five player.  If you mouse over the numer, you will get a video description. Be sure to click on the blue arrow to see the Virtualization and Community, and coming soon, Open Source tabs. 

I'd love to hear your comments, and answers to the mulitple choice above.  I'm hoping I don't get too many D's.

Happy Friday!

Well, the issue here is that you have installed the wrong video driver on the system, which is not caught as an issue in the Device Manager. But if you look at the Event Viewer, you could see that the dll associated with your video driver has been failed to load properly. If you see this error, download and install the correct video driver either from the CD shipped along with your system or Dell support site or from the video card download site.

There is a forum post on Dell site regarding this at http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=Desktops_Workstation_Optiplex&message.id=3098&query.id=146206#M3098

Times have changed it seems and many users of Intel AMT don’t see local users and applications as being always hostile. There are many reasons why it would be very interesting to access all of the features of Intel AMT locally. For example

• If the user changes the name of the computer is the OS, it would be nice to have a local agent sync up the Intel AMT network with the OS name automatically. This way, when the computer goes to sleep next, Intel AMT will report the correct new name.
• Circuit breaker policies could be used as a local firewall implemented in hardware. Set it once and the gigabit network chip does all the filtering and counters at gigabit speeds.
• On a mobile platform, wireless profiles could also be synched up automatically. The user adds a new wireless profile with a WPA key and this profile is automatically added to Intel AMT.
• Enterprise provisioning of Intel AMT could be done entirely locally using local software removing the need for complicated centralized servers.

Instead of seeing the local user as hostile, the local application now cooperate to setup Intel AMT so that if something goes wrong, it’s ready to be used to recover the computer. All this and more would be possible if Intel AMT allows the local applications full access to all the remote interface features.

A local application can’t simply connect to TCP port 16992 or 16993 and access all of the Intel AMT features since the traffic has to flow thru the gigabit network interface. Connecting to 127.0.0.1 will not work, that will access the more limited local interface.

The solution is to use a reflection application like Intel AMT Reflector found in the Intel AMT DTK. This tool runs on a central always on server and simply reflects back all TCP connections back to the source on ports 16992 to 16995. Using this tool an Intel AMT console or even a web browser can connect to “http://reflector:16992” and log into its own Intel AMT remote services. However, there are issues with this solution: You need this reflector tool running and know where on the network it is running. Also, a rogue application could log into the remote interface and put an annoying circuit breaker policy to drop all packets, etc.

In the future, Intel AMT itself could be modified to allow all services on the local interface removing the need for the reflector. There are security considerations of course, but feedback from users of Intel AMT on this idea would be appreciated.

Ylian

I cannot envision a more exciting time to be working in the technology industry, and especially, at Intel. Tick-tock, multi-core, low power, atom, larrabee, wimax, mids, 45nm are just a few of the potentially game changing strategies and technologies that Intel is driving today. However, none of these breakthroughs will make a big difference in the marketplace unless ISVs can effectively incorporate them into products that deliver real value and excitement to customers. This is the ‘simple’ premise behind ISPP: Make it easy for ISVs to align their products with the Intel roadmap and enjoy increased business success as a result.

In my past life as an engineer, I got a real kick in the pants from creating new SW and hearing feedback from customers about how cool our app was…or sometimes, wasn't! These days my ‘kick’ comes from driving our talented engineering, ISN developer community, and marketing teams to deliver enabling programs that help you and your company to capitalize on Intel's technology leadership. I’m looking forward to sharing my thoughts and ideas about SW enabling in future posts, but am even more eager to hear your feedback about how we can make ISPP work better. Simple enough?

In addition to the meetings, we had a great time visiting the old city of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and later on my own the city of Elat and Petra in Jordan. I got some of the most wonderful pictures and uploaded some on Google servers here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ysainthilaire/Israel200802

These pictures cover the 10 days of my trip, starting with the old city then me playing in the mud and floating in the Dead Sea and finishing with my visit to Jordan. Jordan was probably this highlight of this trip, there is something just odd about traveling in this vast desert and realizing that I was in the country that had a common border with Iraq. For most of us in the US, it seems so distant. The city of Petra in Jordon has unique sand stone carvings in the walls. Some people will also notice that the Indiana Jones movie was filmed at this location. Petra was named one of the new 7 wonders of the world and as a result got a surge in tourism. It’s a wonderful place, hot and laid back.

Most people travel by air from Jerusalem to Elat and Jordan, but I opted to take the bus. It’s a 4 and a half hour trip thru amazing scenery. It’s also inexpensive, about 12 to 15$ and much more convenient than by airplane. I will say that except for the bus, everything was very expensive in US dollars. It’s a shame the dollar is so weak, I don’t except to make many of these trips.

Last week was the holocaust memorial day in Israel and I happened to visit the Wailing Wall with some of my Intel co-workers just as 1000’s of people where attending a ceremony that was being broadcast live on TV. One of my pictures shows all the people at the wall.

The Dead Sea was really amazing, it’s so saturated with salt that you simply float. This sea is the lowest point on Earth I am told, it’s 1,378 feet below sea level. Your ears pop on the way there as the air pressure increases. As pressure increases so does the temperature which will often be 10 degrees hotter than Jerusalem. The Dead Sea is well known for the Dead Sea salts used as skin treatment. It also gave me a great excuse to play in the mud! You let it dry and wash it off to wonderful skin… but it’s also just loads of fun.

To sum it up, this 10 day trip was simply amazing. In addition to meeting many people who use the DTK, I also got to see and experience some unique places I will never forget.

Ylian

You can listen to the archived radio show either on the blog talk radio website or download & listen to the mp3 file. I was also told that Open Port Radio is inviting some really cool guest speakers to their future shows, so do look for shows that may interest you.

I am only interested to understand the programming language you are using in order to influence our engineers to provide sample code in the programming language you prefer. You might have also noticed that the "RDK - Reference Design Kit" - a Java sample application and source code - has not been updated recently and I am about to *yank* this tool from the community. The reason is simple, it is hard to justify the continued development and support of this tool when some of the engineers are convinced that a C++ and/or C# sample is all we need to cover the majority of the Intel AMT developers. And, I can only push for Java samples to be developed with your help. Please do respond to this blog post or take a minute to respond to the *poll* we have created on the manageability developer community home page.
Question: What programming language do you use with Intel AMT?
Poll Options:

1. C/C++
2. C#
3. Java
4. Scripting Language
5. Other

Also, please do let me know if you particularly think a "Java" based sample application similar to "DTK - Developer Tool Kit" can really help with your Intel AMT development efforts.

• The user can now type-in the SQL server username and password, to address their own Data Base strong password requirements.
• Note that this change is NOT included in the 3.3 Version of the SCS
• Use SCS 3.2.2 only if you have a Strong Password requirement for the SQL data base user and cannot use SCS 3.3 because of this.

You can download this version here.

I started out with an Intel DQ35JO motherboard, a Intel Core 2 QUAD processor, 4 hard disks, 3 gigs of RAM, 2 DVD recorders, an NVidia 6600 fan less video card, Hauppauge dual NTSC tuner and an HDHomerun dual ATSC tuner. All together, it's a great machine.

Probably the two biggest performance highlights of the system is the processor and the 4 hard disks in RAID5 configuration. I never had a RAID before and I am quite impressed. RAID comes built into the motherboard, just plug the hard disks and about 5 minutes of setup will get you going. Microsoft Vista RC1 includes the Intel RAID drivers in the setup disk so, starting with RC1 it's really easy.

One of the problems I ran into was the computer going into S3 state and hanging on a black screen when waking up. Many people face the same problem all over the Internet, in my case, the very latest Intel BIOS update did the trick. I will have to thank the guys releasing the Intel BIOS next time I see them, some of them at here in Oregon.

The weakest part of my computer is certainly the video card. I get top scores in Microsoft Vista's scoring for everything except the video card. Also, getting an HDCP compliant video card and BlueRay would also be cool at some point.

What makes this computer special for me of course is AMT 3.0... actually AMT 3.2 to be precise. This new update to Intel AMT offers improved WSMAN support but I have not tested it yet with the DTK and so, expect to start working on it now.

Of course, you can see me talk about my computer on this YouTube video.

Ylian