Category Archives: Techie Hobbies

HP Flex 10 vs VMware vSphere Network I/O Control for VDI

HP Flex 10 vs VMware vSphere Network I/O Control for VDI from Blades Made Simpleby Dwayne Lessner I once was a huge fan of HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Modules but with the new enhancements to VMware vSphere 5, … Continue reading

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Surveillance debunked: A guide to the jargon

Surveillance debunked: A guide to the jargon December 1st, 2011 | by Privacy International | Published in All Stories, State of Surveillance, State of Surveillance – The Data Many of the technologies and ideas contained in the Spy Files are … Continue reading

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UAG DirectAccess monitoring and troubleshooting in UAG 2010 SP1

UAG DirectAccess monitoring and troubleshooting in UAG 2010 SP1 After deploying your UAG DirectAccess environment, you need to ascertain that it’s up and running, and is providing the remote access as planned. There are a few things you’ll want to … Continue reading

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On a DA client, the DCA shows a red X or a yellow exclamation mark even when the connection works fine.

On a DA client, the DCA shows a red X or a yellow exclamation mark even when the connection works fine. A common situation with UAG is that when a DA client connects, he sees a red X or a … Continue reading

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Peeling back the onion on HP-FEX

Peeling back the onion on HP-FEX http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/peeling-back-the-onion-on-hp-fex/ Recently, HP and Cisco in collaboration released a FEX module for the HP C7000 chassis. See here and here to read about the release from both HP and Cisco’s perspective. This post is … Continue reading

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DIY outdoor all-weather 3G/Wi-Fi router

DIY outdoor all-weather 3G/Wi-Fi router  Source: http://make-a-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/diy-outdoor-all-weather-3gwi-fi-router.html My father lives in the village where no broadband connection is available. To access Internet he used creepy and hell expensive GPRS connection. Once tired by absence of normal connection and impossibility to show … Continue reading

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How to Boost Your Wi-Fi Network Signal and Increase Range with DD-WRT

How to Boost Your Wi-Fi Network Signal and Increase Range with DD-WRT Wireless is really convenient until you drop your connection or get really low speeds. Thanks to DD-WRT, it’s easier than ever to extend your home networks range with … Continue reading

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Hotmail delivers aliases to help you manage and secure your email account

Starting today, you can create and manage multiple email aliases from a single Hotmail account. Together with features that we introduced in November that let you use Hotmail with any existing email address, the new aliasing feature makes it easy … Continue reading

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How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?

  Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps: Boot from the Windows 7 or … Continue reading

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Nexus 1000V with FCoE CNA and VMWare ESX 4.0 deployment diagram

Nexus 1000V with FCoE CNA and VMWare ESX 4.0 deployment diagram January 1st, 2009 • Related • Filed Under What does the virtual data center environment look like when you have a CNA (Converged Network Adapter) installed in a ESX … Continue reading

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