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 […]
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 […]
A long standing Nagios install (Ubuntu 8.10) has been tasking me over the last few days as although it has run without a blip for many years (probably being rebooted about once a year) it has no doubt reached its EOL (End OF Life). Given the lack of problems I hadn’t bother to upgrade the […]
Connectify – software that allows you to share a wireless internet connection as an Access Point or Hotspot has gone PRO. The two versions – Pro and Lite are differentiated by the functionality they provide. You can get it here The developers describe it as Connectify is an easy to use software router for Windows […]
Co-ordinating many different things is the job for a Director. In this case Input Director and the job is allowing multiple machines and in the case with multiple monitors – to be easily controlled with one keyboard and mouse. A software KVM. I hear you say but we can do this with lots of different […]
Personal diaries and journals seem to have fallen out of favour these days. The idea of writing on a regular basis in a book has been long since replaced by blogging or micro blogging. What if you wanted a private journal to record thoughts , experiences, information that you want to review later – and […]
A client wanted a shared mechanism for dealing with a project. Tasks would be added and as completed they would be marked off. A number of staff needed to be informed of the status as new tasks were added or completed. It needed to be simple and quick. So I pointed them to Tada List […]
64 bit support for office was not available in Version 12 or 12.1 of Paperport. The new version 14 release finally gives us back integration with Word , Excel and baest of all Outlook 2010 64 bit. It took two calls to Nuance to confirm this before installing and removing the old version. Upgrade was a […]
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