If like me you went through the phase of having multiple operating systems on machines to allow you to switch at boot time – then its likely to be the end of the era. No more will we be competing to see how many different operating systems we can get on to one machine ( […]
After what seems like an eternity Vsphere 5 is with us Vmware recently announced the general availabilty and said …… VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features – Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS – that extend the platform’s unique datacenter resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated […]
Having spent a little time with this application and gone through a reshuffle of screens and pc configurations I have to say I am really enjoying using it. I mentioned it in an earlier post but wanted to revisit it after some time had passed. So whats so good about this app. Well it has allowed […]
When clients present machines (non booting or acting strangely) the first thing I do is look to create a backup. Armed with an external caddy of the appropriate type and Active Disk Image software available from here – I can quickly create an image of the system before starting to work on the machine having problems. The […]
When diagnosing network and internet performance issues several simple tools jump out at me. Ping and Tracert are amongst the most common utilities for gauging the performance of links to remote web sites or servers and come with a plethora of options in both windows and *nix flavours. When looking at say long term performance […]
ESX clock time and keeping vms in sync as regards their time can be problemmatic. The diversity of ways of maintaining time and the differences betwen OS and even individual virtual machines can make it awkward to figure out where the time drift issue may lie. Some things to look out for are dead ntp […]
Legacy apps can be problematic. Epecially when it comes to printing and support for print emulation. In this case a foxpro app running as xp mode emulation on Windows 7 64 bit trying to print to a networked printer via LPT3. Although the process on mapping a port is fairly straighforward net use lpt3: serverprintername […]
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