rooting a tmobile mytouch 4g (htc glacier)

i didn’t really have sufficient reason for rooting the mytouch 4g when it was my main phone. since i’ve moved on to another phone i figured why not root it now. the process wasn’t that difficult, but it felt more involved than the process for the tmobile g1. also i made a couple of mistakes […]

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tmobile samsung galaxy s3 & google voice

this is the first time i’ve had to struggle with setting up google voice as my primary voicemail provider (that i can recall). it’s not a difficult process on the galaxy s3, but it’s rather confusing if you don’t know what the process is. first thing you need to do is contact tmobile and have […]

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determining installed MS SQL features

i didn’t find the uninstall/change option in Programs and Features to be very useful for determining which SQL server components are actually installed. this method also requires access to the original installation media. a quicker method is to go to: …Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log and finding the Summary.txt file(s). here’s an example of the […]

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ESXi syslog collector and dump collector

both of these components can be installed on a windows vcenter server from the vcenter install media. they come natively on the VCSA (vcenter server appliance). of course, it’s necessary to point the ESXi hosts to these new collector locations. details below: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/setting-up-the-esxi-syslog-collector.html http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/setting-up-the-esxi-50-dump-collector.html update 9/27/2013: quick commands to set the syslog collector… esxcli system […]

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FLEXlm lmtools and multiple products

FLEXlm licensing managers have been a pain for me for years and it seems that every network-licensed application uses it now. usually it’s no problem if you just install FLEXlm for one product, but as you co-locate various products that use FLEXlm it can lead to issues. overall, it’s not that difficult to fix if you stop […]

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vsphere management assistant (vMA) 5.1

you need to install a new vMA virtual appliance for 5.1 (a 4.x appliance can not be upgraded to 5.1). vMA 5.1 is backwards compatible with 4.1 hosts. on initial power-on of the new appliance i received an error similar to “…network has no associated network protocol profile”. evidently, the new appliance is configured as […]

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exchange 2007 & AD: account disabling and expiration

i’m not sure if this has always been the behavior, but this is how things currently function in our environment. user’s AD account disabled: can still use OWA can not login to endpoints/access AD resources user’s AD account expired: can still use OWA can not login to endpoints/access AD resources exchange mailbox disabled: cannot access […]

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