Apple’s new laptop

Disable the PC Speaker beeps in 200x/XP/Vista

These commands assume administrative rights on the PC.

To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep:

net stop beep

To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting):

sc config beep start= disabled

So, if you are bothered right now by PC Speaker beeps and want them to go away even after a reboot, run net stop beep and then run sc config beep start= disabled.

The space between start= and disabled is required.

From Aaron Tiensivu’s Blog

Bear with me for a little bit…I’ll work on editing the CSS and making the site readable.

How to update OpenBSD

How To Configure OpenBSD 4.2 On VMWare ESX Server 3.5 With Intel PRO/1000MT NICs

Download your Virtual Machine .vmx file with your Datastore Broswer.
Edit your .vmx with WordPad.

Add

Ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″
Ethernet1.virtualDev = “e1000″

above

ethernet0.generatedAddress =
ethernet1.generatedAddress =

Save your .vmx and upload back into the datastore.
Start up your OpenBSD Virtual Machine.

Taken from Tech Blog 357

Been trying to fix a problem with a mandatory profile not being loaded using Windows 2008 Terminal Services. 

In Windows 2008, the folder the profile is stored in needs to have .V2 at the end of it (\\server\share\profile.V2).  However, in the group policy setting, you don’t include the .V2.  Apparently, Windows 2008 and Vista automatically append that to the path.

After all this time, here’s the configuration for running Windows under Xen:


# Automatically generated xen config file
name = "name"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'file:/mnt/vm/name.img,hda,w', ]
boot="c"
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0', 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1' ]
#uuid = "ac525ffb-c5e6-6b93-6365-7f99f82bff79"
device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
sdl=1
vnc=1
vnclisten="IPAddress"
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1
vcpus=1
serial = "pty" # enable serial console
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
*******************
* my-network-bridge
*******************
#!/bin/sh
dir=$(dirname "$0")
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=eth0 bridge=xenbr0
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr1
*******************
* xend-config.sxp
*******************
#(network-script network-bridge)
#(network-script my-network-bridge)
(network-script network bridge=xen-br0 netdev=eth0)
(network-script network bridge=xen-br1 netdev=dummy0)

Change “Name”, “Disk” and the “IPAddress” parameters to meet your configuration.

So for the past couple of days, I’ve been working on creating a couple of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server guests under Xen.  Suffice to say the documentation has been rather sparse, I’ve had to look in multiple locations, searching forums, mailing lists, and Wiki’s to find all of the necessary information. 

Fortunately, there is just enough documentation out there to get things setup.  So I’m going to post my configuration and the steps that you need to go through to get this type of setup working.  Hopefully, I’ll save everyone some major time.  Look for the updates in the next or so.

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Transformers 2….I hope this turns out to be false.

Michael Bay is good at making an all-action no plot movie.  We’ve had some really great comic book movies lately (Batman Begins, X-Men, Spiderman, etc.) and they all have their warts, but at least there was some development of the characters and some motivation behind their actions.  Transformers was all about blowing stuff and not much else.  I’d really like to see someone who cares about the Transformers world take on the rest of the movies.

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This is pretty neat:

Fly through the air!

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