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Delete Your Account Shows You How to Remove or Recover Online Identities

Source: lifehacker

http://lifehacker.com/5462478/delete-your-account-shows-you-how-to-remove-or-recover-online-identities

Ever want to delete a rusty online account but don’t want to navigate a maze of unfamiliar preferences to do so? If you’re drowning in social networking, blogging, and other sites, web site Delete Your Account shows you how to extricate yourself painlessly.
Signing up for “just one more” social networking site always seems like a good idea at the time, but pretty soon it becomes yet another thing sapping our energy and attention. Delete Your Account helps you dig yourself out from under the time suck and get your life back.

When you’re ready to cut the cord from sites like Digg, MySpace, FriendFeed, Hotmail, or a menagerie of other sites, just jump over to Delete Your Account and look for it in the alphabetical list. You’ll get a quick link that takes you right where you need to go on individual sites to nuke your account. You’ll even get a couple of handy pointers for each site to make sure you get it right.

Delete Your Account is a huge time-saver when you want to un-register yourself from one or several web sites but don’t want to waste time poking around each one to figure out where to delist yourself. If you get wistful and start missing sites where you were connected, hit up Delete Your Account for how to resurrect your registration (if it’s possible—because sometimes it won’t be).

Have you been considering ditching some of your online identities? Are you ready to make the leap, and does knowing you might be able to get your account back make it easier to dump it? Talk about it in the comments.

Delete Your Account

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By Chris Burchell
February 3, 2010

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GodMode Folders in Windows 7

From: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1976&tag=nl.e103

Using secret “codes” to create custom folders you open expanded functionality “God Mode” folders that provide access to a whole variety of otherwise hidden system settings / tweaking features.

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By Chris Burchell
January 19, 2010

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VMware vSphere Client on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

PROBLEM

When you install VMware vSphere Client on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit, the client may not run and you will receive the following errors when attempting to launch the client:

vsphere1

Could Not Connect
Error parsing the server “<vCenterServerHostname>” “clients.xml” file.
Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

You click OK and then get another error:

vsphere client error 2

Error
The type initializer for ‘VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy’ threw and exception.

You click OK and then the vSphere client hangs or crashes.

SOLUTION

To resolve this issue, perform the following:

  1. Obtain a copy of the %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll file from a non Server 2008 R2 (or non-Windows 7) machine that has .NET 3.5 SP1 installed. (I took mine from my 32-bit Windows XP SP3 machine)
  2. On the Windows Server 2008 R2 machine where the vSphere client is installed, create a folder called “Lib” under the vSphere Client ‘Launcher’ directory. For example: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\Lib
  3. Copy the System.dll file from Step 1 into the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\Lib directory
  4. In the vSphere client launcher directory, open the VpxClient.exe.config file in a text editor and modify the file as follows:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
    <configuration>
    <system.net>
    <connectionManagement>
    <clear/>
    <add address=”*” maxconnection=”8″ />
    </connectionManagement>
    </system.net>
    <appSettings>
    <add key = “protocolports” value = “https:443″/>
    </appSettings>
    <runtime>
    <developmentMode developerInstallation=”true”/>
    </runtime>
    </configuration>
  5. Create a batch file (e.g. vSphere.cmd) in a location of your choice with the following:SET DEVPATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\Lib
    “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe”
  6. (Optional) Replace the shortcut on the start menu to point to the batch file created in Step 6. Change the shortcut properties to run minimized so that the command window is not shown.

You can now use the VpxClient.cmd (or the shortcut) to launch the vSphere client in Windows Server 2008 R2.

These instructions should also work for running vSphere client on Windows 7.

Additional references: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211440

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By Chris Burchell
September 10, 2009

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