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Another day… Another Vista Push.

by Ben McBeen on Aug.15, 2008, under General, Technology, Work

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/15/ms.windows.7.updates/

You know… My problems with vista are not some voluminous, ambiguous, undefined rant. The problems are real, and they make the OS completely unusable. Between my job and home I some how own three copies of it now. Take a wild guess how many of them I am using. If you forget the stupid forced obsolescence of tons of hardware(wireless/printers/cameras), the crappy drivers(nvidia/creative), the unfinished interface(why do we STILL have computer properties/manage, that link back and forth between each other?), the extra layers of gui crap on top of already buried functions of the OS(just try to configure that wireless network)… You still have to deal with god-awful slow speeds.

Now server 2008 on the other hand… that is something. THATS more like it.

What we don't need from you Microsoft, is more marketing. FIRE THEM ALL! THEY are the reason you are in this mess. No amount of bullshit telling me how "great" vista is will change anything.

I desperately hope windows 7 will come better. My career depends on it.

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by Ben McBeen on Aug.04, 2008, under Work

We are finally getting close to finishing our datacenter here. Here are some photos of the power infrastructure along with our HVAC.

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Dell Deals For EqualLogic – Forbes.com

by Ben McBeen on Nov.05, 2007, under Technology, Work

Dell Deals For EqualLogic – Forbes.com

If you hear a faint sobbing in the distance. It's probably me.

Equallogic has been one of the two pillars of success in my department. The combination of VMware and Equallogic has been amazing to watch. But in all reality. Any decent iSCSI system would have achieved the same results. We were onef their first customers, and have been very happy with their hardware. But we will not do business with Dell. They still owe us money for not honoring our warentees on hundreds of machines.

I have another meeting with Compellent on the 19th. They seem to have taken equallogic a step further.

Why oh why could they have not been bought by hp or EMC?

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Vmware convertor

by Ben McBeen on Oct.16, 2007, under Technology, Work

We having been using VMware here at work for quite a while now. We have the full setup, and it all works really good. But we have had a very annoying problem with VMware convertor for some time now. It migrates virtual machines to ESX server from Virtual server just fine. Also handles Physical-toVirtual great as well. But after you get the VMs on to your ESX box, and you want to reconfigure them, or move them back to virtual server, you can't. You get this error "unable to determine guest operating system". After search the forums and such, we found little advice. But a small line at the bottom of a discussion board on a third party site had the answer. "unplug your usb drives". What? Bullshit. That can't be it. I took a look around my computer, and sure enough I had a USB floppy plugged in. I removed it and tried again… It worked.

So. If you use VMware convertor… UNPLUG YOUR USB DRIVES BEFORE RUNNING!