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Archive for March, 2010
Converting Windows Server OEM Version to Windows Server Volume License
Mar 30th
Recently a client required their server to be migrated into a virtual environment and have the system changed from OEM version to a VOLUME licensed server that they were now using.
This procedure is common, moving from real servers to virtual and using volume licensing as they go this way. Its a fairly easy upgrade path and most people see the significant advantages by doing this.
- The task is as simple as logging into the virtual machine once created and then inserting volume license media.
- Using an ISO image or real media, insert volume license media and it should autorun when it does choose to install and upgrade.
- Enter the appropriate Volume License key and it will upgrade you from an OEM system to Volume Licensed edition.
You may have to reboot once or twice but once it is all done you will now have a Volume licensed system, this can be done during a conversion from Physical to Virtual or to any standalone machine, I personally like to convert P2V and then do this task on the virtual machine as if any issues you can just do another conversion from the existing physical machine.
Apple iPhone 3GS – 3.1.3 issues
Mar 28th
After recently upgrading to 3.1.3, I found my battery struggled to last more than 3-4 hours without use and only about an hour if being used. I searched and read everything I could find, I tryed full factory restore and setup from scratch even with no applications the iPhone still did not have much battery life. I dug further and tryed various different fixes from hard resets to powering it off and back on. Everything I tryed seemed to work for about 10 minutes and then the tell-tale sign of the iPhone getting hot started again.
Finally I decided to turn off the PUSH feature on my email settings and then did a hard reset, from what I had read about this, the push feature is getting stuck on a full connection and not letting it go. Thus constantly trying to see if I had new email was draining the battery.
The following day I decided to confirm my beliefs, YES while running with the PUSH feature turned off I was back to my normal battery life but by turning the PUSH feature on it starts sucking the life out of the battery big time. Now this never happened with previous versions of firmware, so I can live with my email being checked every 15mins but would have been nice for an alert email explaining these issues.
24 is ticking down to a finale
Mar 26th
Watchers of TV show 24 will be counting down to the last show soon, as it has been announced that the show will be finally coming to an end after many seasons of the ticking clock.
More US companies pull out of China
Mar 25th
with growing concerns more and more US companies pull out of China. Go Daddy is now following suit of Google.
With more risks, greater information on customers it just doesnt pay to do business their anymore.
Chinese Government requires domain owners identification and photos in order to control and track who operates which sites.
US Government to BAN Peer2Peer on their networks
Mar 21st
US Government put bans in place to stop P2P traffic on their networks, in a way to tidy up their act or improve network speeds.
If you are an employee of US Government then you better make sure you dont have or run Peer to Peer software on your computers.
Researchers build mobile bot net from smart phones
Mar 12th
Researchers in America build mobile botnet from 8000 smart phones, mainly jailbroken iphones.
Utilising a weather application they gathered detail and proved the concept could be done.
http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223200001