Lately, I have really been wanting to rewrite my ‘Global Domination‘ app. Mainly, because I want to add a lot of features to it, but I’m not going to go to the trouble of trying to ‘polish a turd’. The underlying code is ‘stable’ but is incredibly craptastic. So before I add anything new I [...]
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In my monday foggy brain state I kept on doing strangely stupid things to test our VMware ESX 3.5 server. It allowed me to do things that I don’t think it should for example set ip addresses to the same value on different nics, or set the vmotion ipaddress to the same on two ESX [...]
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http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/how-to-turn-your-vacuum-cleaner-into-a-bazooka/1164
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Two Pro/1000 PT Dual Port Nics were installed in the ‘easy/screwless’ pci express ports I think numbers 6 and 7 for some reason the server would not boot. Moved it over to 0 and 1 and boots just fine. Had very strange issue where server would not boot due to what looked like a display [...]
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Property evaluation failed. I’m not sure that this property actually returns anything… very strange.
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Namespace or type specified in the Imports ‘System.DirectoryServices’ doesn’t contain any public member or cannot be found. Make sure the namespace or the type is defined and contains at least one public member. Make sure the imported element name doesn’t use any aliases. Add a reference to the project under .NET tab to System.DirectoryServices
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Duh needed to add a reference to the project. Right Click your app, Add Reference, Under the .NET Tab add System.Management
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Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ I’m trying to find some good open source network monitoring software. Continuation here http://michaelellerbeck.com/2008/08/04/network-monitoring-zenoss-spiceworks-nagios-hyperic/ First I downloaded the vm version of Zenoss, it fired up pretty easily and I was [...]
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