vsphere: windows 2008 vmware tools upgrade

just a few minutes ago i tried to upgrade vmware tools on a windows 2008 vm. the older version of vmware tools didn’t uninstall correctly. and i couldn’t install the newer version without a clean removal. repair on the MSI didn’t work either. searching revealed that this is a known problem. running “setup /c” from […]

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mandriva 2010.1

i’ve been running 2010 spring on my laptop for about 2 weeks now. no glaring bugs at all in this release. gnome 2.30 and kde 4.4 seem noticeably speedier than previous versions. sound configuration this time around was not a pain at all. my saved wireless configurations are working much better. initially when i logged […]

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vsphere and broadcom 57711

broadcom 57711 nics were showing up as link down from vcenter. this is on vsphere 4u2. the bnx2 driver for these nics was 1.45, i updated the driver to 1.48 and no change. ethtool -i wasn’t revealing any information on those particular nics…so it very much seemed a driver issue. upgraded the driver once more […]

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cyanogenmod

when i first got the g1 (came with android 1.6) i was really happy with it. i was thinking i don’t have any reason to root and install a custom rom. i was content. that was how it was for the first month..then i encountered my first reason. after only installing about 15 apps or […]

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switched to chromium

i never got around to actually building chromium from source on my own – http://resinblade.net/wordpress/?p=162 but i am using a pre-built binary of it on linux now, as well as on windows. i liked it enough to make it my main browser. i had been using firefox since it was phoenix (probably like 8 years), […]

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g1 rom decisions

with david’s assistance and doing my own reading up on things. i’ve decided to put the following on my g1 once i get a 8gb micro sd card: latest cyanogenmod 5.x danger spl amon_ra recovery update 5/31/2010: got my 8gb sd card and yesterday i went through the rooting process, as well as installing a […]

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storagetek d220/d240

finally figured out how to use the serial console on this device’s controller units. serial port settings: baud 38400, 8N1 ctrl+break 38400 space ctrl+break esc password = infiniti useful commands: help – general help netHelp – network help ifShow – network interface info

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tmobile g1

enough just talking about it… so now i have a g1 negotiations fell through with at&t on trying to get a lower monthly rate. everything they offered me was about the same price i was already paying. so we have parted ways. pricing was the main reason but also because of the lack of android […]

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upgrade to gigabit ethernet & 802.11n

recently i was wondering what products i could purchase to upgrade my home network. right now i have a 100mbps ethernet/802.11g network. and a decent investment in 802.11g devices – workgroup bridge, wireless camera, music bridge, ethernet bridge, etc. this mostly stems from curiosity because i’m quite fine with my current set up. but maybe […]

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exchange 2003 offline defrag

dismount mailbox store cmdline, go to exchange bin dir run eseutil /d <path to database> further information here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185

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