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Epictetus – what you would be …

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do
what you have to do.”

Epictetus: Ancient Greek philosopher[ad#ad-1]

Dr. Tom Morris on Thoughts

“We need to understand that thoughts are tools. Are we using them as productively as we can? Are our thoughts serving us well, or are we their victims? It’s up to us.”

Dr. Tom Morris: Business speaker; chairman of Morris Institute for Human Values

WinXP doesn’t hibernate if RAM is ~2gb or more.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000555.html

Here’s the hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909095
http://www.u-g-h.com/InsufficientSystem … LIVED.aspx

To prepare the computer to hibernate, the Windows kernel power manager requires a block of contiguous memory. The size of this contiguous memory is proportional to the number of physical memory regions that the computer is using. A computer that uses lots of RAM is likely to use more physical memory regions when the computer prepares to hibernate. Therefore, a larger amount of contiguous memory is required to prepare the computer to hibernate.

Additionally, the number of physical memory regions varies according to the programs, services, and device drivers that the computer uses. Therefore, the hibernate feature occasionally fails.

When the Windows kernel power manager detects that the hibernate feature has failed, the hibernate feature remains disabled until you restart the computer.[ad#ad-1]

ESX 3.5 RC1 runs beautifully on a Dell SC1430!

I was expecting that there might be some problems since it’s not on the HCL, but it seems it runs perfectly! SATA worked just fine! Created VMFS partitions right on the SATA drives! The broadcom nic was supported using the tg3 driver. I was pleasantly surprised as the install to deployment was very easy.

This came as a great deal from Dell when they sent me the 30% off coupons for Dell SMB where the 2nd proc came free, I got a quad core 1.6ghz box for just 761 or so out the door. From newegg, I got 2 2gb dimms and then CompUSA a couple of SATA 500gb hds for roughly a total of 440 or so. The total was less than 1200 for an awesome machine!

Sushi Dai is way better than Sushi Yamato in Tsukiji (Japan)

It’s really ridiculous how different the two sushi places are in terms of service while they’re right next to each other and look the same as well. They both have similar amounts of traffic as well.

Here’s a good review of Sushi Dai:
http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides … 4654633758

Another review for Sushi Dai:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/As … -BR-1.html

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Foie gras tastes like crap

http://www.gonpachi.jp/en/nishi_azabu/home/location Everything else I had there was good, but pretty expensive. Very good though.]]>

installing zimbra on ubuntu 6

need to run before the install:

apt-get install curl fetchmail libpcre3 libgmp3c2 libexpat1 libxml2 libtie-ixhash-perl

quick deploy of VMs from – linked clones from 1 base disk

test_list.txt needs the names.

for i in `cat /tmp/test_list.txt`

do mkdir /vmfs/volumes/46a50aa4-65c3bb7e-d6d2-0014221878f9/$i; cp /tmp/sample.vmx $i/$i.vmx

echo “displayName = $i”>> /vmfs/volumes/46a50aa4-65c3bb7e-d6d2-0014221878f9/$i/$i.vmx

vmware-cmd -s register /vmfs/volumes/46a50aa4-65c3bb7e-d6d2-0014221878f9/$i/$i.vmx

vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/46a50aa4-65c3bb7e-d6d2-0014221878f9/$i/$i.vmx createsnapshot $i “linked clone to gold disk- DO NOT DELETE VM\!”;done

So in this case here, I have all of the names of the VMs I wanted in test_list.txt. I have a copy of /tmp/sample.vmx – it’s just a basic vmx file with the UUIDs, etc removed, so it would generate a new one. I then give the name of the vmx, the display name, register the VM, and create a snapshot, so that powering up and using the VM won’t mess up all of my other VMs that use the same underlying vmdk.

recently did this – ran:

Espresso machine I want to buy, but don’t need yet …

Bialetti Moka Express – cheap alternative to those big machines that keep breaking on me. Also, the Aerolatte milk frother.