June, 2009

The Pirate Bay is being purchased

Check it out:

 http://www.thelocal.se/20364/20090630/

The caveat here is that the deal only goes through if the Pirate Bay goes completely legal and legitimate. My question is that if they go legit and legal could they still call themselves the Pirate Bay? Wasn’t the whole point of there existence to provide material illegally?

Firefox 3.5 set to release tommorrow! (June 30th)

nbsp;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29/…

Check it out.

Good news for those of us who hate IE (which I presume to be everyone).

Maybe I am a bad person but …..

I really can’t feel sorry for some users. We do everything we can to make it easy for you to let us back up your data. We create you network drives, we redirect your my documents to network shares, we put together documents and powerpoints with instructions and policies for how to save your information in a way that we can backup for you and still you get some people who insist on carefully placing there information in a way that it is left completely unprotected.

How I wish I could say :” I am sorry that when your hard drive died you lost your presentation or all your kid’s baby pictures or whatever  but maybe you should have had them on the network, or on a USB stick, or a CD, or your computer at home or any of the other hundred places or ways where it would be protected. Why should I have to waste my day trying desperately to find some miracously way of bringing your drive back from the dead because your an idiot”. Yup, I wish I could say that but I can’t. Into the freezer with you Mr. Failed Drive with only copy of stupid end users wedding vows. Sigh.

Lithium Air Battery, 10 Times the Energy Density

Very cool stuff, check it out

 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06…

I think if there is one complaint that every laptop owner is my battery doesn’t last long enough. This is great step in the right direction. Now you can burn your crotch ten times longer!

Microsoft announces free upgrades and discounts for Windows 7

Check it out here:

 http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06…

My 2 cents on this. Microsoft should give a free copy to every poor soul who purchased Windows Vista along with a hand written apology.

Shutdown a frozen VM

I was assisting a peer of mine with this issue. He had a VM where the guest OS froze. He attempted to shut off the VM but that also froze at 95%. He was then unable to do anything with the VM. We did some searching and found a way to force the VM offline from the command line which allowed us to then power the VM back on and everythign was fine.

Here is the link:

 http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/…

RIM to release new Blackberry Tour

nbsp;http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/20…

This seems interesting. Though in reviewing the feature set i have to say I still think the Curve 8900 is the better way to go.

Unable to downgrade vSphere essentials licenses

The Vmware license portal allows you to downgrade your vSphere license to an equivalent ESX 3 license. However be aware that vSphere essentials licenses CAN NOT be downgraded. Which means if you purchase these licenses you have to use them on vSphere.

Victory is mine!

Re-wrote my CCNA today and scored a 930! Woot!

Changing userid and password for DSN in Citrix XenApp

If you need to change the userid and password that control the DSN access for Xenapp here is what you  need to do.

From command prompt on the citrix server (you will need to do this from each one)

dsmaint config /userid:*username* /pwd:*password* /dsn:”C:\program files\citrix\idependent management architecture\mf20.dsn”

Restart the citrix IMA service