Soon I’m going to update the ESXi 5.1 with the youngest LSI 9260 driver and CIM from MegaRAID 9260-8i RAID Controller Card | SAS RAID | LSI.
–jeroen
VMware ESXi 5.5 LSI MegaRaid 9271: Firmware Update / Driver & CIM Provider Installation – VMware – IT-News, Tutorials, Reviews, Gaming – skV-NET
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
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How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Gosh I hate it when on a Windows machine your printer list is like a 100 when visiting a couple of clients and friends.
Disable this seems easy How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP, but note there is no “Advanced” button so better follow the steps at Windows XP – How do I Disable the auto Network Printer Ins.. – Network Printer – Windows XP.
Now lets find out how to do that in Windows versions beyond XP (:
–jeroen
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ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Interesting: ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net. It works in ESXi 5.5 too, and the French link below has a version that runs on ESXi 4.
Now you can do these forms of backup:
- ESXi: Hot Replication of Running Virtual Machines – Cascadeo Corp..
- VMware ESX 4: sauvegarde d’une VM sans VSphere CLI, avec SSH, Rsync, Snapshot – Pegasus45.
(Google translated title: VMware ESX 4: backup of a VM without vSphere CLI with SSH, Rsync, Snapshot – Pegasus45.) Read the rest of this entry »
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ESXi: for high speed copying from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 use @Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3, not Veeam Backup and Replication 6.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
I had to move a bunch of stuff from an old ESXI 4.1 server to a newer ESXi 5.1 server.
For that I used a Windows XP VM on the new ESXI 5.1 server that had two different 1 gigabit network connections so it could run full speed.
Speed comparison for 60 gigabytes of VMs:
- 1 hour using Veeam FastSCP
- 10+ hours using Veeam Backup and Replication v6.
I used both settings for both tools: Read the rest of this entry »
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WinSCP installer error because WinSCP site thinks wget can parse JavaScript.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
If your downloaded WinSCP install ever throws this error, and you cannot find the cause on the WinSCP forums, then this is probably the reason:
The caption of the error message should be enough: Windows thinks it is a 16-bit MS-DOS program, not a Windows installer.
This means that the install download went wrong. In my case, I downloaded it through this wget command:
wget -m -np http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe
At first I thought that WinSCP has a referrer check, so this is the command that would work (similar to wget direct download with referer: SpeedFan):
wget -m -np --referer=http://winscp.net/eng/download.php http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe
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KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
Just in case you need to stay with XP for a while (for instance because you have hardware where the vendor still has no drivers for more modern Windows versions), you might want to block KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support.
As of March 5th, this “high priority” KB2934207 update installs a notification screen remembering Windows XP will be End of Support at 20140408 (about 2 weeks from now).
If you do keep Windows XP, then make sure you have good protection for it (even watch that closer than you would on more current systems).
–jeroen
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Naming Schemes (networks, computers, projects, etc)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
Interesting site: Naming Schemes.
Related, I found:
- [WayBack] RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer
- [WayBack] Computer Naming Conventions Practices
- List of figures in Greek mythology – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [WayBack] Robot names – naming robots and androids – NameRobot
- [WayBack] Robot name generator
I’m going to need to name a few things soon, and these are lists I like in a sort of decreasing order: Read the rest of this entry »
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Mark Miller coding by Guitar: DevExpress Code Rush (Coding via Guitar)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21
Today I got a request from friend that never saw this: Mark Miller coding by Guitar using a CodeRush plugin.
For the people that never saw Mark Miller coding by Guitar (he did this many times on conferences around 2009/2010), watch the video here: DevExpress Code Rush (Coding via Guitar).
In the box on the left, scroll to Code Guitari, then play the video from there.
–jeroen
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Delphi: make sure you show the `ExceptAddr` and `ClassName` if you display in exception in DEBUG mode.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21
When handling `Application.OnException` add the `ExceptAddr` to in Delphi the menu `Search` -> `Goto address` has a chance of working, and the `ClassName` so you know what happened.
You might want to always do this, depending on how scared your users get from HEX values in error messages.
This works in about every Delphi version I ever used: Read the rest of this entry »
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Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21
Based on a few links, these are the steps I used to enhance the photo of a whiteboard using Paint.NET:
- Auto-Level
- Reduce-Noise=Max
- Duplicate-Layer
- Gaussian-Blur=20
- Invert Colors
- Layer-Blend-Mode=Color Dodge
- Reduce-Noise=Max
These are the links I used to come to this list:
- Cleaning Up Whiteboard Pictures.
- How to Copy a Whiteboard With Your Digital Camera or Camera Phone.
- SnapClean.me – Dead Simple Photo Cleanup.
- sandbox/gimp/clean-whiteboard-photo.scm at master · kyleburton/sandbox (this one gets installed under “Filters”).
- Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts: WHITEBOARD.
- How to clean up photos of whiteboards with Gimp | Hints & Kinks.
Below are the steps on an image I got from The collective awareness | Idea By Window. Read the rest of this entry »
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