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C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

Personally, I am sick and tired of the United States government meddling more and more in our lives.  The movie and music industry is using our elected officials like puppets (muppets) and we are sitting idly by and letting it happen.  Well, I signed the petition, and my voice will be heard next election.  G.R.I.P. – Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians.  If we really want to make changes, we have to get those that pander to big business out of office and let them know that we have the power to do it.  After all, they are there to represent Read More…

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I can't tell you the reason you may need to access a command prompt on VMware ESXi, but I can tell you that I had issues with a vm and needed to manually delete it from disk.  This process couldn't be done for me from the VI Client, so I did so through the command line.

To access the command line in ESXi:

  1. press ALT + F1 at the main screen.
  2. Then type "unsupported" without the quotes to gain access to your command prompt.
  3. When prompted for the password, use the root password you created when setting up your server.

The volumes are stored under /vmfs/volumes/datastore(x): where x is a number

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In early 2000 I became increasingly frustrated with hardware review sites praising less than satisfactory products. The saying: “if you want something done right, do it yourself” applies here. I wasn’t satisfied, so I did it myself; and here we are years later.