http://lasticko.com Creativity, Design, Experience, IT Pro. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:14:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While tackling a speicifc business need to build, install, and configure an ESXi server for my client, I found out [the hard way] that one really needs to do their homework on the hardware compatibility with VMWare's ESXi! There's no shortage of documentation out there, but for the relative-newbie to ... http://lasticko.com/?p=27 I couldn't be happier. OpenVPN instructions for DD-WRT and walkthrus have been giving me a bit of a headache. Somewhere there were simple instructions, but I kept googling and finding incomplete or vague details of how to use the OpenVPN functionality of DD-WRT. Finally, I found a fantastic guide with a ... http://lasticko.com/?p=26 I just watched the latest OSGUI.com Tech TV Show where he's showing off Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha. Nice guy - nice show, but this rant isn't about the show... Is anyone else really tired of new updates to Linux flavors that just seem to crawl along GUI-wise? For ... http://lasticko.com/?p=24 I came across this great video where a kid does a tracert in XP's CMD.EXE and, painfully, starts to go into huge invented-fairy-tale detail on how the results you see from that command are "the current people who are using Google.com RIGHT NOW!". Everything that comes out of this ... http://lasticko.com/?p=23 Ever since I got a HP Touchsmart all in one multitouch screen, I've been looking for a great large-button fullscreen interface for Winamp. I *finally* found it! Alpha Media Player X5! You can turn off or speed up the transition animations if you like. It looks great, works purrrfect with a touchscreen ... http://lasticko.com/?p=21 In my online searches, learning more about AutoHotKey scripts, I found out a couple very interesting things! First, you can compile an .AHK script into an .EXE! Nice.. Next, there are some wicked cool scripts out there that people have turned into full blown installs. The best and most useful ... http://lasticko.com/?p=19 Hot-damn, sometimes I'm so clever with all these Freeware/Opensource solutions. Having a need for a server to fire up two GUI/Win32 programs and click around/run some menu commands, I set out to find the right automation software that would provide a good amount of error checking feedback -- so the ... http://lasticko.com/?p=17 'Had my client running the Buisness Ed. of ESET's NOD32 but it was v2.x (cobwebs compared to their latest, but still did a great job of protection on the XP PRO workstations) and a problem came up with the auto-distribution of the updates. I got on the telly with their ... http://lasticko.com/?p=16 Omg, I love it. (Wondering if the bandwidth of 10 USB2 devices would clog the single USB2 hookup to the CPU?) At least it's self powered :P Link to product page (no, can't buy it yet) http://lasticko.com/?p=14 Currently dealing with TMobile G1 issues. My original G1 (HTC Dream) has integrity issues - things go corrupt and apps get trashed for no reason. I've done like 3 factory resets and formatted the SD Card a few times but I just needed a new HTC Dream. Clearly this one's fubar. ... http://lasticko.com/?p=10