Archive | September, 2009

29 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Linksys WAP54G died after 10 months.

TweetI bought my first wireless access point a few years ago – a Linksys WAP54G (v 1.0). It lasted 2-3 years. When it died I bought another WAP54G – version 3.1. This one just died tonight. I was sitting here and I noticed that the wireless was down. I moved the plug to another outlet [...]

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28 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Face tagging in Picasa 3.5 is pretty friggin sweet

TweetThe face tagging feature in Picasa 3.5 is really cool I don’t really have anything special to say about this. I just downloaded it and it’s only 15% done with my library but it’s really neat. Download it here if you don’t have it.

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20 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

More fun with ovftool

TweetI tried restoring my .ova into vCenter and it failed. It said something like “Device ‘virtual disk’ uses a controller that is not supported. this is a general limitation of the virtual hardware version.” This kind of pissed me off, especially when I couldn’t really find anything in Google about what the error meant, but [...]

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11 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Exporting VMWare Server VMs to OVA/OVF with ovftool

TweetWell, I thought this was going to be a huge pain in the ass, but it turns out not to be a really big deal. I found this post which includes instructions and a link to download VMWare’s “ovftool”. There’s a win32 version and a 32-bit and 64-bit linux version:

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