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	<title>nptech blog &#187; Chris Burchell</title>
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		<title>How to install vSphere / ESX 4.1 from a bootable USB drive</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/08/19/install-vsphere-esx-from-bootable-us4-1-from-a-bootable-usb-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in the midst of trying to install ESX 4.1 on an IBM server when the installation would constantly fail about half way through and prompt: CD-ROM Missing Insert ESX installation media I didn&#8217;t have a spare DVD drive kicking around so I thought I&#8217;d try to install ESX from a bootable USB stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem installing or upgrading HP Management Agents v8.5.1 on ESX Server 4.0 Update 2</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/06/21/problem-installing-or-upgrading-hp-management-agents-v8-5-1-on-esx-server-4-0-update-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/06/21/problem-installing-or-upgrading-hp-management-agents-v8-5-1-on-esx-server-4-0-update-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated note: This problem seems to persist and reoccur with ESX / vSphere 4.1 as well. Same steps noted below seem to work around the problem. HP recently released an updated version of their Management Agents for ESX Server 4.0. As usual, HP &#8220;&#8230;recommends users update to this versio at their earliest convenience&#8230;&#8221; so I did. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delete Your Account Shows You How to Remove or Recover Online Identities</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/02/03/delete-your-account-shows-you-how-to-remove-or-recover-online-identities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/02/03/delete-your-account-shows-you-how-to-remove-or-recover-online-identities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t want to navigate a maze of unfamiliar preferences to do so? If you&#8217;re drowning in social networking, blogging, and other sites, web site Delete Your Account shows you how to extricate yourself painlessly. Signing up for &#8220;just one more&#8221; social networking site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GodMode Folders in Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/01/19/godmode-folders-in-windows-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2010/01/19/godmode-folders-in-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tweak]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nptech.com/blog/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1976&#38;tag=nl.e103 Using secret &#8220;codes&#8221; to create custom folders you open expanded functionality &#8220;God Mode&#8221; folders that provide access to a whole variety of otherwise hidden system settings / tweaking features.]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere Client on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/09/10/vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-server-2008-r2-64-bit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/09/10/vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-server-2008-r2-64-bit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to resolve problems with vSphere client not running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Steps to Prepare Your Business for a Swine Flu Pandemic</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/09/10/nine-steps-to-prepare-your-business-for-a-swine-flu-pandemic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/09/10/nine-steps-to-prepare-your-business-for-a-swine-flu-pandemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As fears of a Swine Flu pandemic grow, you need to make sure your organization is ready to deal with business and IT continuity issues.]]></description>
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		<title>How to permanently delete your Facebook account</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/20/how-to-permanently-delete-your-facebook-account/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/20/how-to-permanently-delete-your-facebook-account/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: check out this cool new site that provides up to date links to all major social networking sites and information on how to delete online profiles! http://deleteyouraccount.com/ &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Facebook? We don&#8217;t need no stinking Facebook&#8230; If you&#8217;re like the thousands of people that don&#8217;t like the idea of a site changing its privacy policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to remove TCP / network printers in a login script</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/06/how-to-remove-tcp-network-printers-in-a-login-script/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/06/how-to-remove-tcp-network-printers-in-a-login-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[printing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into a problem with netowrk printers recereating / reinstalling themselves several times, so I found an old script command and placed it into the login script to remove specific printer entries: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n \\&#60;UNC&#62;\&#60;PRINTERNAME&#62; The approach was intended to remove specific existinng netowrk printers and re-install them fresh every time the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to align virtual machine OS and data partitions in ESX Server</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/04/how-to-align-virtual-machine-os-and-data-partitions-in-esx-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/04/how-to-align-virtual-machine-os-and-data-partitions-in-esx-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[VMware&#8217;s Recommendations for VMFS Alignment performance study article suggests that it is not necessary to align the boot disk in a virtual machine and that it is only recommended for data disks in a virutal machine. While a data disk in a virtual machine is likely to generate the largest amount of disk I/O in a virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance impact of unaligned disk partitions on ESX Server</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/04/performance-impact-of-unaligned-disk-partitions-on-esx-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2009/03/04/performance-impact-of-unaligned-disk-partitions-on-esx-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By default, ESX Server exhibits the same disk partition alignment problems as seen on all Intel-based platforms. As is common with all Intel-based systems, the first track on a disk is reserved for the boot code or MBR. This means that the first partition of the disk starts at cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1. [...]]]></description>
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