Dawn was back in Louisville tonight at the Zanzabar playing songs from her new album, Sweetheart Rodeo, and old ones. It was a great concert as always. It’s really a shame Dawn isn’t more well known, she is so talented. I also have to give props to the Zanzabar. I’ve never been there but it’s a great small (very small) venue that also serves good food.

Setlist (In No Specific Order):

Romeo
I Don’t Need No Man
Wandering Eye
Twilight
Money in the Bank
Little Miss Holiday
Clown
Love
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Bodyguard
Picture Show
Kids in a Play
Straight Lines
I’m In Love with the Night
Tired of This Life
Young Girl

I went to the Pinktober 2009 show down at the Hard Rock Cafe last night. It was a really good show for a good cause, all proceeds went to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. About $10,500 was raised from ticket sales, signed guitar auctions, and other things. Michelle Branch, Safety Suit, and Better than Ezra all performed, although I was really there to see Michelle Branch perform. I’m glad I purchased a VIP ticket for the show, I got to get in early, sat in the VIP area next to the stage, and met the performers after their sets. I met Michelle, got an autograph, and a picture with her. Awesome.

Michelle’s Setlist:

Everywhere
Sooner or Later
Crazy Ride
Breathe
All You Wanted

The opening band sure was interesting last night. It was a large enemble of people called Southside, performing music and poetry. I would I would have recorded some of the stuff from the performance. I also can’t seem to find information about them on the internet.

Dawn Landes’ performance was great as usual. She played some old songs as well as some new songs. Also with there not being many people in the audience, I met Dawn after the performance and had my picture taken with her.

The last performance was Lady Rizo, a caberet performer if I’m not mistaken. I only stayed through about one song, so I’m not sure how that set was.

Setlist (I think I’m missing a song and the order might be slightly wrong):

Straight Lines
Kids in a Play
Twilight
New Song (Money In the Bank?)
I Don’t Need No Man
New Song
Picture Show
Kissing Song
Bodyguard

When creating a virtual machine in VMWare Server, do not create a second ethernet device unless the machine physically has a second network card. If you do add a second one it will cause the router to stop functioning as well as the network card on the machine. You will have to reboot the machine the virtual machine is hosted on and possibly the router as well.

I’ve had issues with a Vista machine of mine where randomly some sites will become unavailable. The only way I could get access back to the site would be to flush the DNS cache. When I would have the issues it would typically happen fairly frequently. Taking a look at the DNS cache would indicate for the sites I couldn’t open would show they had a “Server failure of Type A”.

I did a little research on this issue and came across a knowledge base article by Microsoft. The KB article (928233) says that the issue is a result in the way Vista handles the DHCP Broadcast flag in discovery packets. XP had this disabled by default while Vista does not. If the router that you are using does not support the broadcast flag it can cause corrupt DNS cache entries on your Vista machine. The solution to the problem is to disable the broadcast flag.

To disable the flag you need to use the registry editor to make changes under this subkey, where GUID corresponds to your network card:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\
Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID}

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value with the name “DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle” and set it’s value to “1″.

I had driver installation issues on a recently purchased Vista Desktop (Gateway GT5656). The first issue came about when I tried to attach an external SATA Hard Drive enclosure by Antec. The add hardware wizard couldn’t find an driver automatically for the device. On top of this, Antec didn’t release a driver for this enclosure because Windows should already have the driver.

The second device I had issues with was a new HP Officejet J5740. The HP installation software (already terrible software, but that’s for another day) would install the driver, but when it would go to actually connect the device it would hang infinitely. If I tried to manually install the printer drivers from the CD, the Add Hardware wizard would report it couldn’t find any drivers that would work for the device.

After some digging on the web I came across a knowledge base article (940199) at Microsoft’s website that provided a solution for both issues. Apparently Vista can have issues repairing/replacing a damaged Infcache.1 file. At the knowledge base article they provide a hotfix for the issue.

Once I installed the hotfix the printer installed without any issues. The external hard disk enclosure also worked without any issues.

Great setlist with some new and old songs. Unfortunately I didn’t get there earlier enough to be in the front.

Setlist:

Invisible
Paper Thin Walls
Dashboard
Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
Bukowski
Fire It Up
We’ve Got Everything
Satin In A Coffin
Education
Missed The Boat
Broke
Float On
Trailer Trash
Fly Trapped In A Jar
The View

Encore:
Custom Concern
Spitting Venom

Torrent of Concert

This was a great concert, full of energy. We were in the front row, only a couple feet from the girls. This is the second year they came to Coyotes here in Louisville. Hopefully on their solo tours next year they have Louisville dates.

Setlist:

1. The Good Kind
2. Love Me Like That
3. Way Back Home
4. Damn That Radio
5. Crazy People
6. Cigarettes
7. Drinking Problem
8. My Old Kentucky Home
9. Love Is Alive
10. My Oh My
11. Different Truck
12. Tennessee
13. Lay Me Down
14. Leave The Pieces

Encore
15. Stand Still, Look Pretty
16. Rain