i learned something today about thin provisioning that never dawned on me before. a thinly provisioned disk clearly grows as more storage is required…but when data is deleted from the guest OS volumes the thin provisioned disk does not shrink accordingly. so if you let a 1TB thin provisioned volume grow to say 800GB then […]

after a text install of solaris 11, here’s a quick way to get x & gnome up and running: sudo pkg install slim_install sudo svcadm enable gdm also of note is that all current releases of solaris are 64-bit only…despite some releases still being listed as x86. and…nice first steps article from oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/o11-112-s11-first-steps-524819.html source: […]

i’ve meant to post this forever… in short how to get the quicklaunch bar back in windows 7: add a new toolbar browse to c:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\microsoft\internet explorer then select the quick launch folder source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-enable-or-disable-quick-launch-bar-toolbar-in-windows-7/

to get the pano controller functional with vmware view as the broker i had to do the following: setup pano controller appliance as a zero client controller only (for vmware view) disable “use secure tunnel connection to desktop” in view (per panologic docs) on the pano controller, set vmware view as the broker create a […]

on a fresh install of windows 2008 r2 w/ latest updates applied RDP sessions would immediately disconnect after login. then RDP services would appear to become unavailable. event viewer->application showed “faulting application name: svchost.exe_termservice… faulting module name: rdpcorekmts.dll…” this is evidently caused by an update being applied prior to SP1 being applied. the solution i […]