What will you need:
- Apple TV 2G firmware: http://www.redmondpie.com/apple-tv-4.4.4-9a406a-firmware-update-now-available-for-download
- Seas0nPass
If you have Mac : http://files.firecore.com/SP/Seas0nPass.zip
   If you have Windows: http://files.firecore.com/SP/Seas0nPass-win.zip
- Putty: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
- iTunes
- Apple TV 2G with version 4.4.4

1. Run SeasonPass

2. Press Shift and click Create IPSW

3. Select IPSW file (Apple TV 2G firmware)

4. Wait until it ends and follow the instruction on the screen.

If you are in Windows 7 , the system will start to install DFU mode and it will notify you. It might last a minute.

5. After the process , SeasonPass software will automatically open iTunes and will begin the restoration process.

6. When it’s done connect your Apple TV 2G to your TV and hook it up to the network either using WiFi or Ethernet.

7. You the jailbreak is ready if you see the red FC logo in the right bottom corner.

Time to install xbmc!

1. Go to Settings>General>Network and take a note of IP Address

In my case it is 192.168.1.9
2. Open Putty and type 192.168.1.9

3. Confirm Yes

4. user: root, password: alpine

5. Stick these commands in

 echo "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list

Then:

apt-get update

6. Wait until is done.

apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2

7. Give Y twice.

8. When it is done check XBMC on your screen!

So you have decided to move your ASP.NET MVC2 project  from the Windows Server configured with  ASP.NET 2.0 .NET Framework 3.5
to  ASP.NET 4.0 .NET Framework 4.

Here is how I did it.

My old setup:

Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS 7.5
ASP.NET
Application Pool : .NET Framework v2.0.50727
.NET Framework installed:  3.5 SP1

My new setup:

Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS 7.5
ASP.NET
Application Pool : .NET Framework v4.0.30319
.NET Framework installed:  4.0

The good thing is that the ASP.NET is backward compatible. You shoud publish the website on the new setup and it should work straight away.

In my case I had to remove these from web.config:

<section name="scriptResourceHandler" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirepermission="false" allowdefinition="MachineToApplication"></section>
<section name="jsonSerialization" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingJsonSerializationSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirepermission="false" allowdefinition="Everywhere"></section><section name="profileService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingProfileServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirepermission="false" allowdefinition="MachineToApplication"></section><section name="authenticationService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingAuthenticationServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirepermission="false" allowdefinition="MachineToApplication"></section><section name="roleService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingRoleServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirepermission="false" allowdefinition="MachineToApplication"></section>

If it still gives you problems got to IIS Manager and click Error Pages:

Select 500 , right click and select Edit Feature Settings

Here select “Detailed errors”

Now you should get detailed error within your web.config. Also check Event Viewer under the section Administrative Events

Now highlight library and press and hold Menu button.

Click button Left and highlight Library Mode

To get the xbmc to create the library properly always put the movie in the directory with the name and the year of the movie.
Let’s say you have file Armyofdarkness.avi. Stick it to the folder called Army of Darkness (1992)
as it appears in imdb.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/

Let’s say xbmc didn’t get the movie right. No problem. Look at this case. The movie here is a The Dark City 1998 but the XBMC detected it as The Director’s Cut as the folder is called The Dark City – The Director’s Cut (1998)

We can fix it quickly:

In the next post I will show how to configure TV Shows and Music library

So you got yourself XBMC installed and you would like to get the XBMC to automatically download movie and tv shows covers, casts, synopis and rating. Like on the image below:

Well, XBMC has something that is called Library Mode which I will show how to configure.

What we need to do is:

1. Add shared directory with movies (local or remote). If you haven’t done it yet check this tutorial:
http://arturito.net/2011/10/20/how-to-add-network-drive-nas-storage-or-windows-share-in-xbmc/

2. Install IMDB scrapper.
*IMDB scrapper is a plugin that will download movie information and cover from imdb.com

3. Set content

Let’s install the scrapper:

Now with the scrapper installed we can start setting up content.

Continue to part 2

http://arturito.net/2011/12/03/how-to-configure-library-mode-in-xbmc-apple-tv-2g-movie-covers-title-genre-part-2/

In this article I will explain versions of Apple TV as it comes very confusing to some users.

The Apple TV device runs the operating system called iOS.
On this operating system runs Apple TV software system.

Imagine that it is like Microsoft Windows running Windows Media Player.

That’s why Apple TV 2G comes with two “version” numbers.

Software Version – which is also called firmware version.
We can find it under Settings > General > About  and see “Software Version”

System Version – which is the version of iOS.
We can find it under Settings > General > About by clicking once on “Software Version”

For example Apple TV Software Version 4.2 runs on iOS version 4.3

If you get this error when opening a solution in Visual Studio, just go to the project file (YourProject.csproj) which fails to open and change the line

<ProjectTypeGuids>{Some_GUID}</ProjectTypeGuids>

to

<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>

Recently I have implemented quite complex e-commerce web application using technologies such as: ASP.NET MVC2, Linq2SQL , .NET 3.5 , SQL Server 2008 R2.

We have the whole thing hosted in the web farm.

We have 4 x IIS7 + 1 SQL SERVER 2008 load balanced with MS NLB

Static content is cached by external cache provider – Akamai, which reduces 86% of the requests.

Each web server has 32 GB of RAM and 4 x quad core CPUs so there are 64 cores on the front-end.

We store session state in tables of SQL server.

It works prefectly with medium traffic (page load = 0.2 -0.3 s)

but the company does the tv ads and during those ads the traffic hits up to 20,000 -30,000 users within 20-30 seconds.

In this moment the page slows down to 39 seconds. However, the usage of CPU’s and the memory doesn’t even arrive to 40% on any machine.

The bandwidth of the data centre does not arrive to the half of its limits.

Pages which are slow generate data from simple SELECTs of maximum 10 records from 1-2 tables only.

I gone through all possible things: I already had my queries compiled but I also optimized selects, created additional indexes studied a lot the problems of storing session in tables that sql server 2005 had (temdb) and I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

You could reproduce the the problem by launching stress tools against the web. The worst thing was that we could freeze the web just by launching stress tools from only two pc’s located in our offices.

I have also posted the question on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7644339/asp-net-mvc2-in-the-web-farm-slow-page-load-with-high-traffic
where people suggested to check indexes and use CompiledQuery.

In practice 90% of the bottlenecks are caused by database. After the whole week of tests and studying the problem I have possibly found a bug in the ASP.NET MVC2 library.
It was incredible how silly the thing was:

Let’s have a look at this code:

public ActionResult Index(){
var model = new SomeModel();
// Get data
....
return View(model);
}

In this code the View is generated using file Index.aspx.
However, this View needs to be found in some way and I guess the search of the this View is causing the problem.

Unbelievable but true – adding the name of the View removed the problem:

public ActionResult Index() {
 var model = new SomeModel();
// Get data
....
return View("Index",model);
}

I say it again, this problem does exists only when the web has a high number of users.
The MVC version I’m using is

Version: 2.0.0.0
Runtime: v2.0.50727

I have contacted the geeks responsible for the design and development of this great library to see what they say.

By all means I don’t  want to discourage anyone to use this library as it is absolutely fantastic and I use it a lot and I will carry on using it.

You can check your response headers by using Firebug add-on for Firefox or just hit Ctrl+J in Chrome.

Unwanted info:

Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version 3.0
X-AspNet-Version 4.0.303319
X-Powered-By ASP.NET

1. Removing X-AspNet-Version

In web.config stick this line in

<system.web>
      <httpRuntime enableVersionHeader="false"/>
	...

2. Removing X-AspNetMvc-Version

In Global.asax.cs add this line:

protected void Application_Start()
{
    MvcHandler.DisableMvcResponseHeader = true;
}

3. Removing or changing Server

Add this module class to your project.

using System;
using System.Web;

namespace Project.Infrastructure.Web.Modules.Http
{
    public class CustomHeaderModule : IHttpModule
    {
        public void Init(HttpApplication context)
        {
            context.PreSendRequestHeaders += OnPreSendRequestHeaders;
        }

        public void Dispose() { }

        void OnPreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
	     //HttpContext.Current.Response.Headers.Remove("Server");
            // Or you can set something funny
	    HttpContext.Current.Response.Headers.Set("Server", "CERN httpd");
        }
    }
}

And add set it in web config

	<system.webServer>
		<modules>
        <add name="CustomHeaderModule" type="StrongNamespace.HttpModules.CustomHeaderModule" />

4. Removing or changing X-Powered-By

Go to IIS7 Management Console and open HTTP Response Headers

And that should be it!

 
Please specify drive hostname or ip address of the device and the name of the hared folder.
Depending on your security settings you might also provide username and password.

(My network storage is Synology DS110j
http://www.synology.com/us/products/DS110j/index.php)

So........... you are configuring ASP.NET SQL session state and Microsoft's
documentation tells you to execute InstallSqlState.sql found in
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\
but you always get this:

If the job does not exist, an error from msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job is expected.
Msg 14262, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_verify_job_identifiers, Line 67
The specified @job_name ('ASPState_Job_DeleteExpiredSessions') does not exist.
If the category already exists, an error from msdb.dbo.sp_add_category is expected.
Msg 14261, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_add_category, Line 32
The specified @name ('[Uncategorized (Local)]') already exists.
Well then..... you are doing it wrong. Open command line (Start->Run-> cmd)

1.cd C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\
2) Execute:

aspnet_regsql.exe –ssadd -U <username> -P <passowrd> -S <servername>

For example

aspnet_regsql.exe –ssadd -U webuser -P d4rk!s1de -S mssql.arturito.net You can also do 

aspnet_regsql.exe –ssadd -E -S mssql.arturito.net - if you use Windows authentication

b) aspnet_regsql.exe –ssadd -U <username> -P <passowrd> -S <servername>for exampleb) aspnet_regsql.exe –ssadd -U webuser -P d4rk!s1de -S mssql.arturito.net