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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>
		<category><![CDATA[ESX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vsphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. Well, at least I tried to&#8230;
Here&#8217;s how it went:
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# ./install851vibs.sh &#8211;install
HP Insight Manager Agent 8.5.1-1 Installer for VMware ESX
Target System is VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-261974
Server: ProLiant [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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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 always seems like [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[godmode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tweak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[win7]]></category>

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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[vsphere]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandemic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nptech.com/blog/?p=91</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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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 or Terms of Service [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<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 user logged [...]]]></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 machine, [...]]]></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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		<title>HOWTO: Use HP Power Manager Agent on ESX Server 3.5</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2008/11/30/howto-use-hp-power-manager-agent-on-esx-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2008/11/30/howto-use-hp-power-manager-agent-on-esx-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are using the HP Power Manager (HPPM) product in a configuration with only ESX servers, HP has an excellent document on recommended configuration settings here:
HP Power Software Installation and Configuration Guidelines for VMware ESX
If your HP Power Manager server is installed on another machine (say, a Windows management server) and you want to [...]]]></description>
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