I have been getting a little bothered by Cisco lately. For starters we have been having all sorts of issues with hardware failure at one of my clients. And even though we have a HA arrangement with the ASA 5545x firewalls, the connections are dropped and the fail-over is far from seamless. I have also …
I bought some reusable wire ties from MicroCenter (GearTie was the brand i bought: http://www.ebay.com/itm/GEARTIE-REUSABLE-rubber-twist-tie-/131065447831?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e841c0597) and cleaned up my cabling quite a bit. In retrospect, it was not very inexpensive and i was thinking there had to be a better alternative. Today on Lifehacker i ran across a DIY showing how to make your own reusable wire …
Good evening, Microsoft used to have a supported method of providing HA for print servers. It utilized MS cluster services and provided a way to guard against an outage on the OS that would interrupt printing for your users. This had been around for some time and was completely abandoned with the release of server …
http://blog.gsmarena.com/nokia-lumia-1020-boards-a-copter-in-poland-captures-impressive-footage/ Nokia Poland came up with an interesting way to showcase the camera chops of the Lumia 1020. Instead of the typical walk around town, the smartphone boarded a radio controlled copter for a flight around Krakow.
IE compatibility mode causes some weird behavior for some websites, i had a recent request to disable this feature for our Citrix users. We use RES workspace manager to control user experience, so this request was to make this possible without creating a GPO and to only have it apply to a specific group. In …
Ran across this fun issue today, we had to migrate a database to a new server as part of a deployment and when we tried to attach the database, we received a permissions error. Well after checking permissions on the source, the permissions that were missing were the MSSQLSERVER – Full Control. The actual account …
A college introduced me to this product today, the Watchdog 15. a small self contained monitoring solution for small server rooms and data closets. http://www.itwatchdogs.com/DataSheets/WatchDog15%28P%29_Datasheet_%2820120822%29.pdf I have not used these, but i thought i would share. I may pick one of these up for a customer who has a large number of IDF closets …
Award-winning National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez has used a Nokia Lumia 1020 to capture stunning images during a unique storytelling expedition in the iconic America West. Read the story here: http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/08/29/national-geographic-photographer-explores-american-west-with-nokia-lumia-1020/
I have had this issue from time to time, mostly when running SSD drives on Hyper-V hosts with limited storage (EG: 146GB or so) Running this command free’s up like 4GB or more. so it can be a lifesaver when you are running too lean. The real fix is larger partitions for the OS. We …
Have questions, here are some answers: Questions! When can I buy one?! Beginning in 2014, there will be multiple SteamOS machines to choose from, made by different manufacturers. I’m pretty happy with my PC Gaming setup, do I have to buy a new piece of hardware now? No. Everything that we’ve been doing on …