This content is 10 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Dears, more than 10 months and I haven't posted anything! I've been extremely busy, to say the least. Family life and ramping up work projects take their toll on free time, hobbies and blogging. My
A quick spring update + ask your questions by twitter
This content is 10 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Dear visitors, I hope you have been well. Time flies at the speed of light, and I realize that my last blog post was written two months ago, with the latest significant IT-related post being
The 33 keywords of death on Twitter
This content is 10 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hey all! Just for fun, I will divert from technical blogging to celebrate the end of 2010 with a bit of humor. I've done some cleanup today on my main twitter account because of huge amounts
Automated Tape Withdrawal with EMC Networker
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.NOTE: As of today, I am still solving several issues related to this that are peculiar to the way EMC Networker is implemented. Expect more updates on this issue. Recently I've been designing a
Sony XPeria X10 – A tale of (android) love and (sony) hate
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.For a change, a blog post about the hype geek world of smartphones. Pardon the disgression! I've been swapping phones with a friend in early august. He got my iPhone 3G (of which I was
Website Refresh / Consulting Services
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Dear visitors, I've just proceeded to a slight website refresh, you'll notice that I've removed the annoying ads from the website and that I've made the site (hopefully) easier to read and clearer. In addition
vSphere 4.0 on-the-fly netmask / gateway change
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Today we had planned to merge two VLANs and to reassign the netmask and gateway settings to one of our ESX servers and to all the virtuals in it. Due to a misunderstanding our network
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Aka VMware Consolidated Backup (The Good), EMC Networker (The Bad) and HP SMVI Recover (The Ugly). Put these three guys together and you're done with long, boring evenings! For those who don't know SMVI Recover,
Compare and reconciliate data from two Excel lists
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Addendum : I've been asked what is the point of this script when excel offers the VLOOKUP function. The aim of this script is to scan lists that cannot be sorted for several reasons (e.g.
Unable to connect when starting HP Insight Diagnostics on HP SmartStart 8.40
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.If you encouter this issue with the HP SmartStart 8.40 CD (unable to connect, http://127.0.0.1:2381), this means that you have plugged in NICs. For some obscure reason HP Insight Diagnostics won’t run if you have
Where all the good things are…
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Dear friends, it’s been a while since my last post. I have been busy both in my personal life and at work. On the personal front, I have been dealing with : – getting my
Paessler PRTG Push Notifications follow-up
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hi gents, I’d like to thank Daniel Zobel of Paessler Support Team for publishing a Knowledge Base article about my solution to allow push notifications to iPhone through corporate proxies. I hope this will help
Sending PRTG notifications to iPhones via Prowl through Corporate Proxies
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hello, after reading Dirk Paessler’s excellent blog article on Prowl and the iPhone, I decided to test this feature, owning an iPhone myself. Unbeknownst to me was the fact that although Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
a Wordle is worth 1000 words!
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Upon the suggestion of a friend on Facebook, I’ve tried the Wordle service with the RSS feed of this blog. See the result below… I really like it!
Follow-Up : Critical Update / VmWare ESX 3.5i Kernel Panic on HP Proliant DL380 G6
This content is 11 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.As a follow-up to my article related to possible VmWare ESX 3.5i Kernel Panic on HP Proliant DL380 G6 systems with integrated Smart Array p410i controller configured in Zero Memory Mode (error 0xAB), please note