Just a quick one here.

I hate email. I would much rather send a message to someone on facebook, or other social site that through email.

If it is important a phone call is in order of course, but for leisurely communication, social sites or SMS seem to be nicer.

I don’t get any spam in my social media inboxes or my SMS/MMS inboxes. My email accounts are littered with hundreds to thousands of spam messages every day.

That’s it. I hate email. Plain and simple.

Anyone else?

I can’t believe how long it haw been since I have posted here. I spend quite a bit of time on facebok, probably to much

I am trying to live more on purpose these days. Not sure how well that is going, but I am keeping at it.

I am tired of computers, or at least fixing them. I can’t stand email. Twitter and facebook seem to be the only things I use regularly online anymore.

I love google voice and hope to see it released for the iPhone soon.

My wife has been doing very well with her P90X routine, I hope to incorporate it into my daily routine again. I love the AdvoCare supplements and the Lean in 13 eating plan with P90X. Sarah isseeing some awesome results.

So much going on these days, but I will save that for a future post.

Hope to post more later.

All the machines have been humming along here for quite awhile, save one…

We had one new 15″ aluminum MacBook Pro that just would not cooperate. The previous article’s solution did not help at all.

Then I realized that this machine had a demo of VMWare Fusion installed along with Parallels Desktop for MAC.. On a hunch I manually uninstalled it using instructions found here: VMWare.com

It worked.

Here are the basics, please check the PDF, linked above, for the details.

First I ran this:

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --stop

Then these:

sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist
sudo cp /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/license.* ~/Desktop/
sudo rm -dfr /var/db/vmware
sudo rm -dfr /var/run/vmware
sudo rm -f /var/run/vmware-*
sudo rm -dfr /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app
sudo rm -dfr /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion
sudo rm -dfr  /Library/Receipts/Install\ VMware\ Fusion.pkg
rm -dfr "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Helper"
rm -f "/Users/${USER}/Library/Preferences/com.vmware.fusion.plist"
rm -dfr "/Users/${USER}/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion"

Once this was done I rebooted and I was able to connect with the Verizon USB727 or USB720 (with or without VZAccess), establish the VPN connection with the Cisco VPN client, and maintain the connection as long as I wanted.

I hope this is helpful for anyone else that is having similar problems.

What next LOL.

Just messing around on the PowerBook G4. Recording the screen, playing with the sensitivity of the mouse following. Comments please. Yeah, I know. Comment on what LOL.

I found this fascinating quote today:

How long would you think it would take for the grocery store to be cleaned out?  During a hurricane it can be a matter of hours.GOTOGUY.com, Feb 2009

You should read the whole article.

This is one of the coolest RV’s I have seen in a long time.  I think everyone should have one of these.

Individual customer requests and personal needs are the basis of every product development. This reflects the competence, professionalism and innovative spirit of UNICAT “individual”: from the complex planning and design to the production and subsequent testing of each individually manufactured expedition vehicle.

Check it out here

I was setting up a new cluster this week.

I am not a technical writer so I won’t go into all the screen shots and steps up to the point of failure.  If you want more details, just leave a comment, or send me a message.

It is an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuos Replication (CCR) with a Majority Node Set (MNS) Quorum.  This will be the second Exchange cluster in our Exchange Organization, and we plan to move everything off out Exchange 2003 cluster and retire it.

At some point, don’t ask me when, something got messed up and I had to uninstall Exchange and the Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and start over.  This is where all the fun started.

The MSCS portion would complete wonderfully and I had no problems.  I could install the Exchange 2007 management tools and the Mailbox Role without problems as well.  As soon as I tried to install the Active Clustered Mailbox Server it would just choke.  I searched high and low for a solution and could not find one.  I tried all the normal trouble shooting items to no avail.

Here is the command I was running to install:

Setup.com /m:install /roles:mailbox /newcms /cmsname:EXCH07MBX1 /cmsipaddress:192.168.11.108 /CMSDataPath:E:\Exchange\Mailbox

Here is the error I was getting:

Storage group “EXCH07MBX1\First Storage Group” was not found. Please make sure you have typed it correctly.

Long story short this site led me to solving the problem — ExchangeInbox.com

I had been making sure the database and log files were deleted when I uninstalled Exchange and started over, but did not bother checking the registry.
HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange

The information does not get deleted automatically.  The keys related to the clustering, if they exist, prevent the CLUSTER_SERVER.INS from being processed.  This is the part that sets up the cluster resources, which includes the First and Second Storage Groups.

Everything is up and running now and I thank God for leading me to that page.

If any one is getting the error mentioned above, and you to not see the Resource Group in the cluster management console named after your Active CMS, give it a shot, after you have backed up your registry, delete the Exchange key shown above.  It worked like a champ for me.

This solution worked for me, your mileage may vary.  Doing the things mentioned here could render your Exchange server unusable.  This server was in the process of being set up and was not yet in production and the prospect of wiping these machines to bare metal and starting over from a fresh format of the drives would not pose any production downtime. Proceed at your own risk, I am not responsible for your actions, or inaction, as the case may be with taking the appropriate backups.

An excellent article.  Large numbers of people, especially the elderly and very young are sucepptible to Hypothermia:

With temperatures across the USA plunging and negative numbers in double digits now’s the time to think our one of our especially vulnerable populations – our elders.

Full Post Here - SupplementalScience

I can’t wait for this:

Urijah Faber is looking to get back the featherweight championship but first he must go up against a very dangerous Jens Pulver in a rematch from last years biggest fight of 2008. Dont miss WEC® Live on VERSUS Sunday, January 25th.

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This was sent to my by a friend and I just had to share it.  I think the snippet below says it all

Here’s an iPod mount for your trusty sniper rifle

Go here to read the entire post – CrunchGear.com