itguyonline.com http://www.itguyonline.com/blog Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:07:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WordPress Upgrade http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/08/03/wordpress-upgrade-3/ http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/08/03/wordpress-upgrade-3/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:07:25 +0000 Kurt Wolf http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/08/03/wordpress-upgrade-3/ I just upgraded my worspress site using safari on an iPhone. Pretty neat. Just make sure your phone does not lock or press the home button.

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I have been working on a project at work to create a status board display of important company metrics. Since this will eventually make it to a large LCD display, I am doing everything I can to make sure it is as perfect as possible. Now, I’m no professional designer but one of the things that really bothered me was the tables of information running together and there was no easy way to distinguish the data columns. I wanted to feather (fade) the text at the end of the column before the start of the next.

It seems there is not too much about this on the good old inter-web so I was off to hacking. Like most of my good ideas, they come to me when I stop thinking about them and just allow a moment of quiet. That came tonight at the dog park.

I was really consumed with the idea that I had to address the column that I wanted to feather, when in fact I needed to add the feather to the column I did not want to run into. The picture above shows to table rows, the first does not have the treatment, and the second does. Code to follow…

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<html>
    <head>
        <title>Sample Table Layout</title>
 
        <style>
 
			*, HTML {
				padding: 0px;
				margin: 0px;
				font-family: verdana
				font-size: 12px;
				background-color: #000000;
				color: #FFFFFF;
			}
 
			TABLE {
				table-layout: fixed;
				width: 675px;
			}
 
			TD {
				white-space: nowrap;
				overflow: hidden;
			}
 
			TD SPAN {
				background: url(feather.png) repeat-y;
				background-position: right;
				position: absolute;
				/* Set these both to the width of your feather image */
				margin-left: -20px;
				width: 20px;
				height: 100%;
			}
 
        </style>
 
    </head>
 
    <body>
 
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th>Col 1</th>
                <th>Col 2</th>
                <th>Col 3</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>The quick brown fox jumped over the log</td>
                <td>This is the start of a second column.</td>
                <td>Parker</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>The quick brown fox jumped over the log</td>
                <td><span></span>This is the start of a second column.</td>
                <td><span></span>Parker</td>
            </tr> 
        </table>
 
    </body>
</html>
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]]> http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/06/27/upgrade-to-wordpress-3/feed/ 0 Infra has changed hands once again http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/04/14/infra-has-changed-hands-once-again/ http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/2010/04/14/infra-has-changed-hands-once-again/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:43:12 +0000 Kurt Wolf http://www.itguyonline.com/blog/?p=77 The product formally known as Ionix Service Manager, formally known as Infra has been moved to VMWare and is now known as VMWare Service Manager. Since the move, there seems to be new material on the website referencing version 9. I know that this version has been talked about by EMC for a while so I am curious if it will really come out.

In other news, Microsoft has granted me access to System Center Service Manager. I am going to dig into that product to see how it compares. If it accomplishes 80% of what Infra accomplished, I may be sold.

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Open terminal and create a link to the utility.

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Now that the utility is available, run airport -I for all of your wireless information.

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This will enable NetExtender to once again work its magic.

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Boot Keyboard Shortcut

Hold down the ’6′ and ’4′ keys while you are booting. Conversly, you can boot into 32bit by holding down the ’3′ and the ’2′ keys.

NVRAM setting

Set a nvram setting to boot into 64bit.

nvram boot-args="arch=x86_64"

Apple Configuration File

Set to Apple configuration file to boot into 64bit by editing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<  !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
< plist version="1.0">
< dict>
	< key>Kernel< /key>
	< string>mach_kernel< /string>
	< key>Kernel Flags< /key>
	< string>arch=x86_64< /string>
< /dict>
< /plist>
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Don’t bother trying to install the Windows 2003 Admin Tool Pack in Windows 7.  It will not work.

Microsoft has released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7.  Download and install this little jewel.  Once installed, hop into your “Control Panel”.  Click on “Programs” and then “Turn Windows features on or off”.  You will see a new section called “Remote Server Administration Tools”.  Mark which tools you need and then click Ok.  No reboot needed.

That was half the problem…  Now onto the Exchange tools.  Microsoft seems to not have much information about the Exchange tools for 2003.  I can’t blame them.  I would like to be running Exchange 2007 right now but it is not in the cards for another year.  By that time, probably jump right into Exchange 2010.  In the meantime, I found a download over at Will Dove’s website.  What he has done is take the official ESM for Vista build from Microsoft and removed the check for Vista in the install process.  This works like a charm.  I have not run into any issues using this on my system.

Next up for my admin tool build project, Citrix Tools and OCS.

Updates:

  • 20090817 – Updated the link to the Remote Server Administration Tools
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