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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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
Once upon a time ESX didn’t support connecting USB devices, however with later versions of ESX (i think from 4.1?) there is now the option to add USB devices to a guest. You can do this by following these steps.
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.
