Archive for the 'Anger' Category

Thunderbird (3.0.1) update marks messages unread!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

This is a confirmed bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554
To fix it, you just need to go in the config editor and set
mail.server.default.use_condstore
to false, supposedly.

vSphere 4 Client & Windows 7

Friday, November 6th, 2009

This has been fixed as of update 1.
If you’ve tried to install the vSphere client on Windows 7, you’ve undoubtedly come across errors like the following:

Error parsing the server “192.168.2.2″ “clients.xml” file.
Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

and

The type initializer for ‘VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy’ threw an exception.

Although Windows 7 is fully released now, nobody seems to [...]

Solaris 10’s native LDAP client and an OpenLDAP server

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

After plenty of hours of trying to figure out why it was that Sun’s native LDAP client wouldn’t talk to my OpenLDAP server I decided to call support. I had been through just about every Google result I could read and still got nowhere.
It turns out that when you use the native client you’re [...]

PowerEdge 2900 iSCSI Performance Problems w/ FreeBSD

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Got a new storage server, it’s a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included:
options iscsi_initiator
connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536
to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds (in the range of 300-500KB/s).
To [...]

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 Review

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

I hate it. I didn’t buy it, someone else did and I got stuck “using” it, then selling it.
It came preconfigured with a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K RPM drives in it for use with iSCSI. To me that makes no sense. What’s the point of the HUGELY fast drives in something [...]

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