Christopher J. Umina » Windows

vSphere 4 Client & Windows 7

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:07:07 +0000

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 feel like supporting it. Though, I guess Microsoft did kindof rush it out the door… Anyway, there’s a nice PowerShell script out there that allows you to fix this stupidity. After browsing the VMWare community, I came across this URL:

http://www.tinyint.com/index.php/2009/09/04/vsphere-client-on-windows-7/

I followed the instructions and now everything is working the way it should be. Maybe VMWare could just… do this for you ?

Picasa sucks!

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:32:27 +0000

Why don’t they let you download images with anything except picasa?! Isn’t that a feature that the world might like? Why do you have to install picasa to download a friend’s web album?

Google, you’re the worst company ever. You’re the queens of doing 85% of something.

EDIT: Thanks to Scabdates, I now am able to use http://picasadl.appspot.com/ to do the job! I still hate Google.

IIS, FTP Sites, and “Isolation”

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:16:14 +0000

Note to self: In Windows Server Land, FTP User Isolation does not mean what you think it would.

By default, users are restricted to the FTP Site’s home, and no directories above it, only below.

To get a better idea of what isolation is: Google It!