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  • Deploying Applications with the Possibility of a Slow Connection (Robocopy)

    Deploying Applications with the Possibility of a Slow Connection (Robocopy)

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Regardless of which software deployment suite you use in your organization, there is no way to avoid transferring the majority of the installation files to the local machine, whether that is a file copy or a load into memory / temporary location. For small application...

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  • Move Files with Folder Actions and AppleScript

    Move Files with Folder Actions and AppleScript

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    In relation to my article on Combining PDFs in Apple Automator, I needed to automate moving files from one location to another, with the final destination name of the file being different than the original. At first I thought this would be 5 minutes in...

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  • Combine PDFs in Apple Automator

    Combine PDFs in Apple Automator

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
    There is a dream that I will become specialized in one area, with my aspirations pointed towards network engineering. However, until I get there I will be good at everything, a jack-of-all-trades that seemingly cannot understand the meaning of “no”. This type of quality creates...

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  • VCB Backup Script, vcbMounter

    VCB Backup Script, vcbMounter

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Although the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) software receives considerable flack for lacking features or functionality, the fact that it provides you with access to the raw VMDK files is enough to alleviate all the missing functionality. As a side note, with Windows VMs, you can...

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  • Linux Console Modes (80×25 – really?)

    Linux Console Modes (80×25 – really?)

    Posted on September 13, 2009 | No Comments
    I grew up using DOS, starting with DOS 2 something. I had a father that never stuck with the default settings, which included modifying the command prompt design/colors and the screen text dimensions of the DOS window. The default was 80 characters or columns wide...

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  • OpenSolaris iSCSI Initiator

    OpenSolaris iSCSI Initiator

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    As part of my testing phase during the custom SAN project, I was running into performance issues with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator and the OpenSolaris COMSTAR iSCSI target. Although some individuals were running into significant performance issues, such as 600KB/sec writes, my problem was...

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