Seth.Larson

http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/20/donkey-kong-junior-shower/

I’m fairly sure I’d be immediately shot down, but with any luck JT will manage this.

30% of spies speak a second language apparently.  So either 70% of our spies are in england and australia, or 30% of them are somewhat conspicuous.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090420/1alanguages20_st.art.htm

I mentioned in a previous post that I was having issues copying files to my windows home server and that the drive’s SMART data had errors.  This is definitely a problem which I need to fix, but it was not that cause of my file moves and copies failing from Vista and Server 2008 to Windows Home Server.

When rebooting Windows Home Server over lunch I noticed the Virtual Server 2005 Master Console had a message that my virtual machine additions were not up to date.  Seeing this, I went in and updated the virtuam machine additions and blamo everything is working perfectly now.

So if you’ve put your Windows Home Server on Virtual Server 2005 and you’re having file move or file copy operations failing for reasons which do not make sense, update your freakin Virtual Machine Additions.

Another song stuck in my head, this time with an awesome accent.

After talking to Mr. Dan about random issues I’ve ran into with Windows Home Server and failed file copies he mentioned that I should check the SMART data on the hard drives I have. He apparently had experience with a bad hard drive taking the performance of WHS to its knees.

After checking I found a result I did not hope to see:

The 49% is the overall health as well as the disk read error rate. So lets hope that guy hangs in awhile longer.

I’ve been gradually beating Virtual Server 2005 R2 into submission so that it works on my Windows Server 2008 machine. This involved adding application maps and all sorts of other things and still 3 times out of 4 it would probably act a little whacky on machine reboot after it was working. Until I found this tonight:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A79BCF9B-59F7-480B-A4B8-FB56F42E3348&displaylang=en

Virtual Server 2005 R2 update to add support for Server 2008 as a host.

However, the real lesson from this story is this: If you’re running server 2008 and your motherboard doesn’t support Hyper-V. Replace your motherboard, even if it does cost you 100 bucks and you do have to explain to the significant other that it was money well spent, its still worth it.

P.S. Why the hell didn’t that page show up on google searches for virtual server 2005 on windows server 2008. It was published 5/15/2008, and I hadn’t ran across it until tonight.

And no, it isn’t the smell of flowers or mowed lawns or any of that rubbish. The smell of spring is the same as the smell of summer and fall: grilling.

Unfortunately(for her) my fiance is at her parents and is missing out on this delicious new york strip. Its alright though, I picked up a friend to keep me company tonight

Ran into the following bug today:

Warning:  popen(/usr/bin/rrdtool info
/www/cacti/htdocs/rra/citrix1_traffic_in_166.rrd,r)
[function.popen]: Cannot allocate memory in
/www/cacti/htdocs/lib/rrd.php on line 97

Too much googling lead to : http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=1359

So the bottom line is that even in the open source world odds are you’ll be hearing “Fixed in the next version”

Madoff’s prison number is a winning lottery combo for 501 people.

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=15363734