VMWare Fault Tolerance is a pretty sweet technology…if only you could run it on more than your image server.
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VMWare Fault Tolerance supports only one core
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VMWare vSphere vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization
A few features parallel these virtualization offerings, but if you’re looking for someone to partner with for the Enterprise space, it seems a no brainer to me.
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Unable to download Excel or other file over SSL under IE8
Ever since IE8 hit the streets I’ve been having a horrifically nagging issue where all our files that normally download over HTTPS no longer work. They download correctly under FireFox or Google Chrome, but not under Internet Explorer 8. I’ve tried googling it many times through the months and finally found the issue. It has to do with cach-control headers in the head of the server response. In my context we are generating some Excel documents on the server and pushing to the browser. We were setting Pragma to no-cache in our PHP header like such: “header(‘Pragma: no-cache’);” Removing this little guy fixed the issue. If you’re unable to do this on the code side, Microsoft has some nice Registry hacking to fix the issue on the browser side.
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Google Mini Appliance Review and Integration Tutorial
It’s inevitable. That home-brew, built-from-scratch search engine code will start to show its age sooner or later. After many years and a good run my search code was starting to show its age. I did a SQL Profiler trace on MSSQL 2005 and there were several hundred searches daily that took over 10 seconds to execute. I don’t know about you, but if my search doesn’t come back in a few seconds, I go elsewhere. I’ve been farting around with the idea of integrating a Google Mini appliance for a few years but thought its time may of finally come.
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VMWare Bridged Networking Not Working DHCP
Ok so here’s the low-down. I got a new Vostro lappy for work and I was really hoping that it would be easy to get all my crap ported over to it. I was a little leary about how well my virtual machines would port over; turns out for good reason. For the life of me I couldn’t get an IP from the DHCP server! I was running Debian Linux on a Vista host. The VM was originally created using VMWare Workstation but now was running under the free VMWare Server. This new computer has Norton Internet Security and I’ve had issues with that before with mystery blocking etc. I was able to communicate with the VM through the shared private network and also through the Bridged interface only when I hardcoded the IP. It still couldn’t reach the internet though. Well after turning off all possible options, quadruple checking my adapter settings and all that fun crap, it came down to this.
In order to get Bridged Mode working on the Virtual Machine, the adapter it connects to must support promiscuous mode. It was connecting to my Wireless adapter..just like it was in the previous computer. You think it supported it? yeah..bad times. I simply told VM to use the normal Lan adapter, connected it to the wireless switch and kablam, i had my IP..Nice 5 hours of wasted time. I hope this helps someone cause it took me forever to figure out 
Using the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Method for higher quality communication
This article describes an activity to really get yourself and others to increase their level of communication detail.
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Maintaining Caller Context When Using Javascript Class Instance Member Functions As AJAX Event Handlers
One would think that it would be pretty trivial to set an AJAX Event Handler to be a Javascript class member function … yeah not so much. Just one more reason why Javascript seems more and more left field to me. Don’t worry though, I’ll walk you through how to get it to play nice.
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Why .Net / MS open source projects really don’t exist
Here is a short little blurb on why everyone and their grandmother uses LAMP/RAILS open source products and comparatively there are very few .Net projects in existence.
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Using PHP5 Base Class Static Member Variables to encapsulate Presentation Layer Dependencies
This post covers how to utilize static member variables to keep track of your presentation layer CSS/JS dependencies.
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PHP5 before 5.2.x and Debian Distro of FreeTDS causing Unparsable date strings
I finally nailed down a really odd date/time issue between PHP5 and FreeTDS.
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