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Engineering Weight Loss

  • December 1st, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

Wired’s HowTo wiki has a pretty good weight loss tip that goes straight to my usual argument on “bottom line” calories. I advocate that it does not necessarily matter what you eat, as long as you stick with moderation, and understanding calories-in should equal calories-out. Eat only what you can burn. I [ READ MORE ]

vSphere 4.0 client bug with Windows 7 x64

  • September 2nd, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

I am running Windows 7 Enterprise x64, and I just deployed my first vSphere box into my production environment. I have a smattering of 3.5 boxes out there, and the previous client works just fine on Windows 7. Not the vSphere 4 client. Piece of crap. Throws up errors on login: Error Parsing the [ READ MORE ]

Firefox video lag fix

  • August 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

In Firefox about:config, browser.sessionstore.interval change from 10000 to 120000 to stop video streaming lag, per here: Many users, myself included, visit YouTube on an almost daily basis. Ever since Firefox version 2.0 implemented the session restore function, when you are watching a video on YouTube (perhaps on other video sites as well, [ READ MORE ]

User Account Control Error in Vista x64 Enterprise

  • July 1st, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

Try this weirdness on for size. I was troubleshooting a bad application install on my Vista x64 box here at work a couple weeks ago, made a couple application-related registry deletions. Nothing major. And UAC re-enabled itself. I started getting prompts for application use, scripts, etc. The weird part? Going into the User Accounts Control [ READ MORE ]

FasterFox and tweaking Firefox yourself

  • January 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

I was disappointed when I upgraded to Firefox 3 and found that one of my favorite extensions was killed. FasterFox was one of those tweaks that really made a difference in browsing speeds. Then I stumbled across this today. Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature Type “about:config” (no quotes) in [ READ MORE ]

Installing HP Insight Management Agents on ESX server

  • January 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in Hacks

Why there is not a definitive guide on the Internet I do not know. HP’s site for the install is horribly vague, and the VMware site is similarly vague, referencing the HP site. Oh yeah that helps. Since I am not a linux geek by any measure, it was a bit [ READ MORE ]

Duplicate Calendar Items

  • November 27th, 2007
  • Posted in Hacks

I ran into a weird issue with my last cell phone… it duplicated (sometimes tripling or quadrupling) many recurring events. I had four Christmas Day events on Dec. 25, and three birthday reminders for my mom, etc. But I was having a hard time deleting them all without removing the ones I actually [ READ MORE ]

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