Babylon 5, like any good book, needs to be revisited every once and a while. With this in mind, I’ve been dying to re-immerse myself in the B5 universe for about a year and my girlfriend gave me the perfect excuse . . . she’d never seen it.

While adding season 4, using a custom built interface to Amazon Web Services, to my “What I’m Watching List” I noticed something titled Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales with some packaging that I had never seen.

I thought that this might be a recompilation of some movies or interviews with some of the cast and crew about the B5 universe, but it’s not. It’s actually new material.

This is pretty exciting stuff. First new Babylon 5 material in years! The release date is set for July 31st 2007.

SSMS with Windows Authentication is problematic when using it in conjunction with a VPN. SSMS only uses the primary domain login (the local computer) and not the remote domain login (your authentication credentials from the VPN) to try to login. Because of this, you get the dreaded error “Login failed for user ‘(null)’. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.”

This wasn’t a problem with the old Query Analyzer because it would automatically detect the right username and password to use even if you were connected to a VPN.

There are two ways around this.

1. In Windows XP, SHIFT right-click on the program and select Run As. Enter in your username and password for the remote domain.
2. Vista is a bit trickier since you can only select Run As Administrator. So I wrote a simple script that uses the command line runas program to work around it. The script appears below.

I’ve titled the script runassql.cmd.

runas /netonly /user:%1 “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\SqlWb.exe -S %2 -E -nosplash”

Usage is: runassql.cmd DOMAIN\username SERVERNAME.

Once you run the script, you’ll be asked for your password and then it should work.

<img src=“http://us.media.blizzard.com/starcraft2/images/wallpapers/wall3/wall3-thumb.jpg” alt=“alt=”Starcraft 2 Logo" style=“float:right” />I love Starcraft. My friends and I used to play this game late into the night on countless occasions. I was just about to hit the sack to get some shut eye for the second day of RailsConf 2007 and I decided to pop into the RailsConf Twitter page (I can’t believe that I’m using Twitter) to see if there was any new happenings.

And boy was there! It took nine years, but finally Starcraft 2 is coming out! You can check out a CG announcement trailer on youtube video link or out can check out some screen captures screenshots link.

Update

Here are some more vids:

• Starcraft 2 Units
• War – Nuclear Launch Detected!
• Unit Expansion Video

Of course you can see more at the Starcraft 2 official site.