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If you are traveling to Europe and are anything like me, here are some recommended items to bring on your trip. Continue reading Essential electronics for European travel →

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ROGERS IGNITE 250u review

Aside March 5, 2015 Mike Leave a comment

Today I switched to Rogers’ newest service, ROGERS IGNITE 250u, why the all-caps is beyond me. That is unlimited usage tier, with 250mbps download, and 20mbps upload bandwidth. It is $69.99 for 3 months, then $95 after that. I was unable to use my existing retention discount of 25% in addition to the 3 month discount, but it worked out for me to use my retentions discount as it lasts longer.

Here are the details:

ROGERS IGNITE 250u

UNLIMITED USAGE

Speeds up to:

250Mbps DOWNLOAD
20Mbps UPLOAD

But I am actually receiving significantly more on the download end, at 320Mbps!

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VHD Management

Aside March 28, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

The following is a primer on managing virtual hard drives using Hyper-V manager. Virtual hard disk files are stored as either .vhd or .vhdx files which use .avhd and .avhdx differencing disks respectively for snapshots. Both formats support either fixed size or dynamically expanding. The .vhdx format is new as of Server 2012 and provides some improvements over the previous .vhd format including increased storage capacity.

For a list of changes in the VHDX format, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831446.aspx

All examples are performed using Hyper-V 3.0 on Windows Server 2012 (minimum version required).

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Hyper-V VHD virtualization

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Introduction to command line programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2012

Aside January 8, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

The main issue I have with Visual Studio is the lack of intuition it possesses when creating simple command line programs.

First to create a new console application:

File > New > Project >Visual C++ > Win32 > Console Application

YOUR CODE HERE!

Here is where things get annoying: Continue reading Introduction to command line programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2012 →

C++programming Visual Studio 2012

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Migrate a virtual machine using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Aside March 26, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

Once you have gone through the lengthy and specific requirements to install and get VMM running (See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610592.aspx for all the requirements), added your physical servers to a host group for management, and configured networking ‘fabric’, you can use VMM to perform live migration between your servers running the same version of Hyper-V.

Note that starting in Hyper-V 3.0 VMM is no longer needed to perform live migration; they can be initiated directly in Hyper-V manager.

This guide assumes a pre-configured VMM, server, and network infrastructure (see the technet article for more information).

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Hyper-V system center virtualization

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Adaptec 6805e – Expanding a Logical Device with 4 SSDs

Aside September 28, 2012 Mike Leave a comment

This post is a quick run through on expanding a logical device using Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM). This feature is great for expanding the capacity of your RAID as is an online resize. This means that you do not lose access to your data during the process. On the other hand, it is not powerful enough to expand the array to fewer number of disks. Continue reading Adaptec 6805e – Expanding a Logical Device with 4 SSDs →

6805e Adaptec RAID SSD

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