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How to hack extra processors in Hyper-V

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I was playing around with some windows 2k8R2 servers this week. I have a net goal of setting up a Hyper-V fail over cluster, but ran into a quandary when I wanted to bump the virtual processor count up. I have 12 cores on the servers why can’t I use half of them on a single virtual server? In fact, my initial plan was one primary virtual server taking up 90% of the resources on either of its physical nodes. However out of the box it doesn’t seem to be the case, So… I started poking around.

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Portable Studio Softbox - DIY

Saturday, February 7, 2009

I’ve been meaning to post this for days, but the last few steps seem to take for ever to get to.
First of all lets talk about studio lights and why we have soft boxes, one of the key things about studio lighting is even lighting across your subject.  The keys are to have a bright [...]

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2009 ford mustang convertable review

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The mustang is an age old icon introduced in the sixties which has gone through a number of iterations to reach their current generation; an obvious tribute to their beginnings.

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Car Reviews - Saying good bye to the ol-Camry

Sunday, February 1, 2009

It’s been many years driving the ol girl, and now its time to review it as I say good bye. To be exact, the vehicle is a 1989 Toyota Camry DX StationWagon.
Outside the primary birth control affects the station wagon gives off, it turned out to be one hell of a vehicle.  Now, as [...]

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JkDefrag v3.36

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I got a phone call from an old customer about her PC acting  up.  She talked about installing stopzilla and everything going to the snails since.  Any how long story short i’m going through a re-education period of trouble shooting XP.
Any how, after failing to find some of the old jem of resources I had [...]

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OpenDNS Saves yet another customer.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

So I was helping a customer hook up their Internet service from comcrash.  The had their modem, and i was there to set up the computer and hook it all up to the Internet.  So first thing first…  the new laptop, one easiest to get online was running SLED.  So…  yea, we where not looking [...]

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Linux - 0-expert in a million posts.

Friday, November 28, 2008

So my full time gig is requiring me to live in Linux more and more and while know a good bit, there’s a lot that I have not shoe horned into my head.  Since it is pretty common knowledge that if you can teach something, you’ll have a better understanding of it.  So here we [...]

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New Photos from EuroSunday - Sacramento

Friday, November 28, 2008

More car photos posted at AManWithACam.com
Thanks Eurosunday.net

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New Photos: John Muir to Stinson Beach

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Went on a hike the other day, from John Muir National Monument.  Hike went through some woods up to a ridge and then down to the beach.  Some lessons…  Need to get a walking stick camera pod. And maybe a label to remind me to turn on anti-shock since it won’t remember that setting.  Full [...]

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EuroSunday Photos - November 9th

Friday, November 14, 2008

Yey, more photos to publish.  Meta data is too much work
Need voice based tagging!
It was Alfa day!
Visit the Gallery http://amanwithacam.com/

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