Posted by ewall on May 16, 2012 | 8 comments
The strangest Windows Upda...
I was just attempting to patch a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM when Windows Update failed with error 0×80243004, which wasn’t familiar. A little Googling revealed the source of the problem, and the improbable fix: Windows Update was failing because it couldn’t display the icon in the systray! The systray was misbehaving, with lots of empty space but no icons showing. The solution is to resize...
Posted by ewall on Nov 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Walk This Way
After reading over the infographic below, I am SO glad that I live so close to my office that I can walk there everyday. After three years of commuting-by-foot I never want to give it up! Click image to enlargeFrom: Streamline Refinance via...
Posted by ewall on Oct 25, 2011 | Comments Off
PowerCLI for easy VMware a...
I’ve had VMware’s PowerCLI installed on my admin PC for months now, but I hadn’t had a chance to use it until today. But I’m glad I did! On several previous occasions I’ve needed to use the vSphere CLI (f/k/a RCLI) or the Perl SDK for specific tasks, but did not find them… intuitive. Sure, maybe if I had all the VMware commands and shell scripts memorized, but who has...
Posted by ewall on Oct 18, 2011 | 1 comment
New article to kickoff the...
Today I’m starting a new series of posts which will server as an introduction to some of the joys of PowerShell scripting. Yeah, that’s right: I said “joys”… seriously! PowerShell is powerful as the first part of the name suggests and flexible as a shell should be, and once you try it I daresay you’ll never want to go back to VBScript. Anyway, you can find this new...
Posted by ewall on Sep 28, 2011 | 2 comments
Now You’ve No Excuse
If you’ve heard any news or browsed the Internet at all today, chances are you’ve already heard plenty about Amazon.com’s newly-announced Kindle eReaders, especially their new 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire. CNET’s Molly Wood succintly answers the question everyone is asking, if this will be the iPad killer: “Yes. It’s the price, stupid”! But I don’t want to...
Posted by ewall on Aug 5, 2011 | Comments Off
How do you spell “LO...
A couple months ago I switched my voicemail to using Google Voice. It was much easier than I expected, mostly because my cellular provider is Sprint, who have a partnership with Google Voice that allows you to port over your real mobile number with very little hassle. (For me, keeping the same phone number I’ve had for over a dozen years was a high priority.) Now I can resolutely say that using...About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
