The Easy Way to Update ProLiant Firmware

A client had an issue with their HP server last week. They called HP Support hoping for some major hardware exchanges but first were told (paraphrased), “You are way behind on firmware updates – until you update firmware for System BIOS, RAID adapter and hard drives you get no support from us!”

(We’d never even

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Quick Process Monitor Tip

Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor.

Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what fails and every possible result in

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Upgraded to VMware ESXi

This week I had the pleasure of advancing my “virtualization program” at work. I also got a chance to install and configure my first “real” production VMware ESXi 4.0 server. Not my first, but the first one that isn’t educational and will really get used at the office.

ESXi is what is called a “bare metal

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Tip: Testing Multiple IE versions on Win7

Here’s a neat little tip I spotted the other day and thought I’d share. If you are running Windows 7 (Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise) and need to test sites with various versions of Internet Explorer (6, 7 and then you’ll find this tip interesting as well:

Run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the Same Machine

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A Quick Look at Nocs

Nocs is an interesting take on the concept of having access to your notes from anywhere. Instead of having to build out another infrastructure, the Nocs author leverages your existing Google Docs account for storage and integration. Just use the windows client to work with existing docs or create new ones.

Aside from the “in

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