the r710 has two pcie riser cards each with 2 slots. so there’s a total of 4 slots of available. unless..an optional pcie 16x riser card is installed (which only has one slot).

i imagine the typical setup is riser1 with 2 slots of pcie 4x. riser2 with 2 slots of pcie 8x. riser2 is closest to the power supplies and contains slots 3 and 4.

10Gbps NICs should go in slots 3 and 4 (max two 10Gbps NICs in one server).

pcie 4x full duplex bandwidth = 2GB/s
pcie 8x full duplex bandwidth = 4GB/s
10Gbps = 1.25GB/s or 2.5GB/s full duplex

i’ve seen this a few times on vista with a wireless connection. you’re clearly connected to an AP, you have an IP address, you can ping the gateway…but you can’t get out on the internet. hence “local access only”.

i encountered it just recently again and after some lazy troubleshooting i ended up blaming it on early releases of vista. so i then installed SP2, figuring that would resolve the problem. it didn’t! so then i figured i should put more thought into this. i tried all sorts of things…

• recreating the wireless connection profile
• unchecking IPv6 for the connection
• changing between private and public network
• letting windows auto-resolve the problem
• hard disabling IPv6
• deleting the wireless NIC drivers and reinstalling new ones
• setting a static IP, saving settings, reenabling DHCP
• turning off power saving settings for the wireless NIC
• disabling/reenabling the wireless NIC

none of that worked. ridiculous hmm? some of those were suggestions from forums. there were more drastic suggestions too that i didn’t bother to try. i was starting to get obsessed in finding a solution at this point.

finally, a post in a forum pointed me in the right direction. something evilly simple and stupid.

from network and sharing center > internet options > connections > lan settings > checkbox automatically detect settings.

that’s all the problem was in this case. writing it down so that i remember now.

phase1: success
rapid prototyped a quick script for reading and writing to an XML doc on a UCCX server. far from ideal, but it functions.
i need to mess around more with the expression editor to get the actual results i want.

references:
http://www.netcraftsmen.net/component/content/article/70-unified-communications/679-using-xml-files-to-control-a-crs-script.html
http://www.uccx.net

phase2: pending

1. backup VC database
2. backup SSL certs
3. attach database to new server
4. run VC 4 installer
5. total upgrade process = roughly 30 minutes. downtime only affects VC

VC 4 hardware reqs:
2 CPUs
4GB of RAM
windows 2008/sql 2008

update 5/18/2010:
the SSL certs need to be copied to the new server (same directory structure)
the System DSN settings need to be recreated on the new server manually

and a really important note – ESX 3.x use a License Server which is different than vsphere licensing.
so a new license server will need to be installed on the new vcenter server
-or-
leave the old virtual center server up…disable all services besides the license server, and point the new vcenter “esx 3.x licensing” to the old virtual center server’s IP address

/etc/apt/sources.list  ….

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

update 8/22/10: i just recently discovered how easy it is to update from debian stable to testing…simply edit this file and replace lenny with whatever is currently the testing release name (currently squeeze). i’ve always thought apt-get was pretty cool, but now i respect it even more.

solution:
http://kb.promise.com/KnowledgebaseArticle10073.aspx

a friend of mine (travis), recently had antispyware 2010 installed on his laptop. his attempt at removing it caused more problems. such as “Choose the program you want to open this file” dialog popping up when he tried to run anything. i walked him through some basic attempts at troubleshooting and was pretty close to calling it quits and thinking that windows simply needed to be reinstalled.

last ditch effort was to do some googling because i imagined that other people had this same problem. of course, other people did have the same problem.

reference and solution:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6132_102-0.html?threadID=384167
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

my personal opinion is that it’s extremely unsafe to web browse at all from windows xp. even with the latest SP and critical patches, firefox or IE 7/8, and antivirus/antispyware installed. that probably seems like a huge exaggeration…but i don’t think so. even if you just browse legit sites at some point a search result might bring you to a malicious site. or you might simply mistype a URL, etc. sooner or later you’ll get burned and not realize how all the crapware got installed on your computer. an exception may be that if you have browser security at near max, but then all the security dialogs popping up make web browsing painful.

my point is stop using windows xp. if you have to use windows at least use vista sp2 or windows 7.

screen -list = list sessions
screen -r <session> = reattach session

inside of screen:
Ctrl-a c = create new window
Ctrl-a n = go to next window
Ctrl-a p = go to previous window
Ctrl-a ” = list windows
Ctrl-a A = name window
Ctrl-a d = detach session

issue: a particular microsoft security update breaks mail merge capabilities with blackbaud products.

article: BB708164
summarized solution (from blackbaud knowledgebase):
“1.  Open the Windows Registry.
2. Locate the appropriate registry subkey (NOTE: If the WordPad registry key does not exist, it will need to be manually created):
* For 32-bit versions of Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad.
* For 64-bit versions of Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad.
3. Right-Click on the WordPad key and choose New > DWORD Value.
4. Name the new DWORD value AllowConversion.
5. Right-click AllowConversion, and then click Modify.
6. Enter the number 1 in the Value Data box and click OK.”

reboot is not necessary…

i have an ipod nano 3g, which i curse for not being rockboxable. maybe someday…

anyways, for my first attempt at syncing it in linux i used gtkpod. i believe i had limited luck with it, probably due to misconfiguration on my part (this was a few years back). i then stumbled upon finding that banshee also had ipod support. which always works pretty well for me.

..had one issue recently though. i had attempted to delete all the files on my ipod..but the files still somewhat remained, although songs no longer played. banshee wouldn’t sync any longer after this. i might have caused the weirdness myself by not having the latest podsleuth installed? anyways, i resolved it by using amarok to delete whatever aspects were left of the files. i then opened banshee again and syncing worked immediately.

someone might then wonder why i just don’t use amarok.  i’m just used to banshee’s UI…no other reason.