The day I tried to teach a camera to swim, and failed.
A few weeks ago I was talking to one of my closest friends when I declared that if ever she chose to christen/baptise her child, that I wanted to be the godfather! Little was I to know how soon it was to happen. Somehow though, the Marlin Brando version of The Godfather was not what I had in mind.
What am I talking about I hear you ask? Well recently I was unfortunate enough to send my beloved canon 30d to swim with the fishes. Now granted, it was an accident, and granted I didn’t want to see the end of that camera, but I still feel bad about it none the less.
My experience upgrading to iOS 5.0 Beta 2 (from Beta 1)
I received an email today from Apple regarding the release of iOS 5.0 Beta 2 to developers so I rushed right out and downloaded the required files. The install went really easily up until the actual upgrade at which point it all went pear shaped.
The usual method for developers to upgrade to Beta versions of the iOS is to use Xcode organiser. Doing it this way on this occasion was NOT the way to go, as it left me with an iPad in DFU mode. ie, unable to turn the device on and left with a warning about being in recovery mode when plugged into a computer running iTunes.
Getting the new iOS ended up being realtively easy to do using iTunes however using these steps.
How to hide your Bootcamp partition in OSX
Recently I decided I wanted to hide the Bootcamp Partition in OSX to clean up my desktop. I still wanted my Main partition to appear, but didnt really want the bootcamp partition to appear since I never use access it while in OSX. Daniel Moore wrote up a good description on how to do this in 2008 that still mostly works under Snow Leopard.
“Error loading operating system” after Shadow Protect IT Edition restore
We have been using Shadow Protect IT edition for a number of months now to assist in hardware independent server migrations. One thing that I came up against early in our testing was issues when rebooting into the recovered O/S. Issues like not having a working bootloader, “error loading operating system” etc. At the time storage craft advised a couple of simple steps to avoid this issue. It is interesting that while these steps have been recommended to me after EVERY migration, they are performed in a “secret” menu item that I always forget the keystrocks for. So here they are!
VMware KB: Unable to edit the settings of the template in vCenter Server 4.1
I had an issue recently where I could not edit the hardware of one of my VMware templates. I would convert the template to a virtual machine, and upon trying to edit its hardware I received this error message
“Call “PropertyCollector.RetrieveContents” for object “propertyCollector” on vCenter Server “” failed.”
Connecting a USB device to a VMWare guest in ESX4.1
OSX slowdown
So I’ve been a Mac book convert since about mid 2010 and have been loving it. Lately however I had noticed a bit of a slowdown (pretty much the exact same thing that happens in windows.. only for OSX 
). This is what I did to overcome these speed issues
Exchange 2007, OWA and Public folders
This week I had a request to give public folders access to certain users via OWA (Outlook Web Access). Exchange 2007 OWA does not appear to show the public folder button by default.
Resizing system volumes in VMware
Vmware has made it easy to increase the size of your virtual hard disks in the latest versions of vmware.
To do this simply open VI Client and follow these steps.
