Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Aleratec Cruiser Mini Disk Cloner

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

We ordered one of these little Aleratec Disk Cloner things about 2 or 3 months ago. It finally came yesterday.
The thing works nicely, it accepts laptop & desktop SATA drives and clones with one button push.
It cloned a 160GB deathstar in about an hour, which isn’t bad for that junky of a drive. [...]

Using portdowngrade

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Recently, I needed to roll a port back to a much older revision. While I usually dislike this type of thing, I found it to be necessary this time. Somebody recommended that I use portdowngrade to revert the ports tree to the older version, so I could install it.
Here’s my process:
Verify Anonymous CVS [...]

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.

Simple ATX Power Supply Test

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Just a simple way to test that an ATX power supply is functional (or dead).
ATX Power Supply Test

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 [...]

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