It is inevitable that the change to IPv6 will need to be done in the near future. But in the meantime, it is also inevitable that you will need to run both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time (at least in most scenarios). This leads to some caveats when it comes to DNS resolvers/clients. […]
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VMWare recently, (and quietly) published a patch I have confirmed will resolve a guest virtual machine startup and shutdown issue that was introduced in March 2012 when they released Update 1. The issue was that it broke the automatic startup and shutdown of the guest virtual machines when the host machine boots or shuts down. […]
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NetBeans 7 and Java SDK (JDK)
Recently I update to the latest NetBeans 7 installation and set it to use the Java 7 SDK (JDK). When launching the program, I get frequently got this annoying error message that says “JVM creation failed”, followed by an exit of the program. Numerous articles and postings advise to edit the netbeans.conf file and change […]
Let’s admit it, gMail is awesome (some of you would beg to differ), especially when you use gApps like I do. But I’ve always had a few requirements: being able to access my most recent e-mail offline without using a browser large mailboxes (4+ GB) use of certificates to sign or encrypt e-mail integrated calendar, […]
Over the summer, I acquired an exchange upgrade from my Dell Precision M6400 to an M6600. I got a chance to disassemble and replace the mainboard in this new system, but didn’t get around to posting photos and comments I had about the new hardware. (Post a comment below if you want the pictures.) My […]