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All the stars have aligned to make it relatively easy to have an enterprise level lab on a single machine. In this two-part article I will explain how to set up a full Hyper-V based windows domain test enviroment. The Hardware For a long time hardware has…
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According to TechCrunch, Google’s newest update to the Android OS, Froyo, will add USB Tethering and the ability to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot. Andriod police are also reporting the Froyo will include a 450% performance boost compared to version 2.1 running on…
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So you got your brand new recently stolen purchased Windows 7 powered computer, and for whatever reason you forgot your password or misplaced the little sticky note where you wrote it down during the initial configuration wizard. Well, luckily there is a tool that will reset or…
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Wolfram Research was awarded The Best in Show and Technical Achievement awards @SXSW for its “answer” engine WolframAlpha. I have to say this is the coolest “answer” engine yet. I still remember the good ‘ol days when as a struggling math student I needed to do computations…
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Apple insider is reporting that Apple is planning to include the ability to multitask, when it launches the fourth major revision to the iPhone Operating System. If these rumors are in fact true, we can also expect this feature to appear in future versions of…
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A few months a colleague of mine ask me if finallyfast.com really worked. I didn’t really know whether it did or not, so I decided to find out. I put three machines to the test. All of which I use everyday and run fine according to my…
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Yesterday Apple unveiled it’s highly anticipated tablet computer, the Apple iPad. I have to say, I am a little disappointed in Apple this time. With all the hype they had created and all the speculation and buzz leading up to the unveiling, Steve Jobs failed…
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The VMware data store browser utility that comes with the Vsphere client, well… it sucks. I have found it to be extremely slow when uploading files, as well not giving accurate transfer rates and times most of the time. After spending close to 3 hours…
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A few days ago I found myself needing to create a bootable USB drive to test one of our image deployment solutions. Come to find out I had previously formatted my USB drive and did not have a valid bootable partition. Luckily [insert sarcasm here] I…
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For over the past four months I’ve been struggling with backup exec throwing out a communication stalled error every now and then. Usually I would come to work in the morning and the backup exec services would be stopped. The only way around this was to…
