Monthly Archives: April 2011

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Windows 7 virtual machine gives black screen after VMware client install

This entry was posted in Interesting Tips Virtualisation on April 7, 2011 by HAL

Essentially the issue is a black screen (sometimes with coloured lines/dots) when booting Windows 7. This happens before the login screen and hangs there.  This occurs after installing Windows 7 as a virtual machine on VMware ESX/ESXi and then installing VMware Tools. Once the Windows 7 VM is rebooted the black screen is then all […]

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WordPress 3.1.1

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Wordpress on April 6, 2011 by HAL

Barely 6 weeks after the 3.1 release – the WordPress Team are back with an update addressing some issues that have been identified. According to the developers, the update addresses nearly 30 issues in WordPress, including three security vulnerabilities. Also they say .. WordPress 3.1.1 corrects a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the media […]

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Freenas – a free nas/san option for your VMware environment

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Freenas SAN VMWare on April 5, 2011 by HAL

As part of a project – a client has requested a NAS solution for duplicating backups stored elsewhere. As we were moving the client to a SAN based VMware infrastructure – this meant that we had a few ESXI machines with local storage that could be used for this purpose. So enter Freenas as an […]

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Improving Teamwork Project Manager

This entry was posted in Interesting on April 4, 2011 by HAL

As mentioned here previously Teamwork Project Manager is a web based project management tool which can quickly allow you to construct and track a project with very little effort. I noticed some updates and a new feature that would be very beneficial in some projects. Firstly the development team have introduced an Adobe Air application […]

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Connectify Me

This entry was posted in Gadgets Must Have Software and tagged Connectify on April 1, 2011 by HAL

A recent discussion with a client regarding communications problems on an iphone whilst travelling abroad led me to a solution for their particular requirement. Many of us would be familiar with Internet Connection Sharing and other forms of enabling devices to share a single internet connection. This client knows that they are going to be […]

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