Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/23
About 4 months ago, I missed the OCZ Octane SSD Review – Internal Hard Drives – CNET Reviews.
Too bad that at roughly USD 2400 (the lowest price vendor at CNET lying), it is about three times as expensive as the Google Shop search for Hard Drives Intel Solid State 600 GB that I already have.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/19
Krishnan Sriram has a very nice list of New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
His lists starts with the shortcuts that stayed the same; these are the ones that are new:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30
Last week this was in HDD news:
I asked it before 6 months ago, and wonder: how long will it take for 12.5 mm 2.5 inch SATA HDDs to arrive on the market that have 1.5 TB or more capacity?
Yes, I know about the WD20NPVT, but the WD20NPVT is 2.5 inch and 15 mm high.
–jeroen
Posted in Hardware, Opinions, Power User, SSD, ThinkPad, W701 | Tagged: hard drive, hdds, sas, tb | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28
| How | Upper | Lower | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard | CTRL + SHIFT + U | CTRL + U | |
| Menu | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase | |
| Command | Edit.MakeUppercase | Edit.MakeLowercase | |
| Versions | 2008, 2010, 11 | ||
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/21
The Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent for VMware View/Workstation/Player is very easy to remember: Ctrl+Alt+Insert.
While searching for the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent in Remote Desktop (which is Ctrl+Alt+End), I came accross the via List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP.
It includes these lists:
I was after the Ctrl+Alt+End shortcut from the list below which works in any Windows version I tested so far. But the other lists are very useful too.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Scott has been posting some really good entries lately.
This is one of them: Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman.
Being a keyboard addict, I love that!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/17
Learned a few Excel keyboard shortcut pairs today:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Spacebar | Select columns |
| Shift+Spacebar | Select rows |
| Ctrl+; | Current date |
| Ctrl+Shift+: | Current time |
| Ctrl+Shift+2 | Format current cell as default date |
| Ctrl+Shift+3 | Format current cell as default time |
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27
Brilliant post on using the Window-key for shortcuts with Windows 8 (all Windows 7 Windows-key shortcuts work, plus many more): Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. – Scott Hanselman.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/06
Cool: sites that allow you to do track prices, get history charts, get alerts for price drops, etc. Got there through SSD prices in steady, substantial decline – The Tech Report.
Your account works at all of our price tracking sites:
- camelbuy (Best Buy)
- camelcamelcamel (Amazon.com)
- camelcamper (Backcountry.com)
- camelegg (Newegg.com)
- camelsounds (Zzounds.com)
And your account will work at any new sites we launch!
The SSD price drop together with the HDD Prices Not Expected to Decline Until 2014 makes me think: if/when I should finally ditch my RAID 5 storage server and build an ZFS server with server hybrid storage (which is totally different from desktop hybrid storage).
Many of the great references at Understanding how to use SSD as Hybrid Storage Pools for ZFS point to the old sun.com site, and suffer from link rot. A few I found back: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/03
Another research item:
Need to provide access through OpenVPN to the same LAN as where the OpenVPN server runs on.
This is unusual, and requires a bridged OpenVPN solution.
Jürgen Schmidt wrote a nice article on this in 2008.
Endian community edition seems to support this out of the box:
Server configuration
In this panel you can enable the OpenVPN server and define in which zone it should run.
OpenVPN server enabled
Click this to make sure the OpenVPN server is started.
Bridged
If you want to run the OpenVPN server in one of the existing zones check this box. ..
note:
If the OpenVPN server is not bridged you must set the
firewall rules in the VPN firewall to make sure clients
can access any zone - unless you do not want them to.VPN subnet
This option is only available if you disable bridged mode, which allows you to run the OpenVPN server in its own subnet that can be specified here.
Bridge to
If bridged mode has been selected here you can choose to which zone the OpenVPN server should be bridged.
Dynamic IP pool start address
The first possible IP address in the network of the selected zone that should be used for the OpenVPN clients.
Dynamic IP pool end address
The last possible IP address in the network of the selected zone that should be used for the OpenVPN clients.
–jeroen
via: The VPN Menu — Endian UTM Appliance v2.4 documentation.
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