zelda2: the adventure of link

i never owned zelda2 when i was younger. my first experience of playing it was at a cousin’s house and the game was already in progress. so i’ve never really played the game from the beginning until now. i can’t say that i’m too much of a fan of this zelda. here’s my problems with […]

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garmin map updates

someone recently informed me that garmin was giving out free map updates for automotive GPS units. according to the garmin website my GPS unit was indeed eligible for a free map update. this was very good news to me because i bought my GPS in 2006 and it’s still fully functional, but the map data […]

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getting dungeon keeper 2 to run in windows 7

here’s a frustrating topic that is mentioned in many a forum posts. without some tweaking dungeon keeper 2 will crash about every 5 minutes worth of gameplay under windows 7 or vista. i ultimately got it functional after trying an assortment of suggestions found on the internet. playable settings (for me at least – windows […]

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vsphere 4.1: insufficient video ram

just recently introduced vsphere 4.1u1 hosts to a cluster and noticed an odd behavior. windows 7 vms were complaining about insufficient video ram. which doesn’t necessarily seem like a big deal, but in this case the vms would power off by themselves shortly after reporting the error. i tried setting the video ram to “auto”, […]

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some equallogic info

the remote setup wizard application requires two ethernet ports to be located on the same switch within the same vlan (fairly obvious). also the nic that is initially configured is eth0 on the active controller. when adding a new member array to a pre-existing group it’s best to upgrade the firmware on all members within […]

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vmware view: delete replica

if you really want/need to delete a replica you’ll first need to remove its protections via the vcenter server command line. exact details here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008704

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ubuntu print to pdf

i very rarely print out hard copies and i dislike having to search thru stacks of paper. so the majority of the time i prefer to keep things in digital form. for windows, i’ve been familiar with pdfcreator for quite some time. pdfcreator creates a printer object in windows that you can “print” documents to […]

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vsphere 4.1 jumbo frames and related configuration

this article provides the info necessary for enabling jumbo frames on vswitches and vmkernel interfaces: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007654 there’s also a fantastic document from equallogic that goes step-by-step over setting up the storage networking configuration from scratch. the document is called “TR1049: Configuring VMware vSphere iSCSI…” installing the equallogic multipathing extension module is detailed in the MEM-User_Guide […]

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