How to fix June 7/2011–VLK Windows XP Activation Issue – Clock sync Error

This is borderline genius – Just turn the date one day earlier to June 6th and try activation again. After successful activation change the date back to 7th….

Thanks to Engless777 from Microsoft forums…

DIY NAS Update - $1050 for 16 TB (RAW)

$1050 for 16tb NAS

I been a bad boy and hasn’t posted anything useful for quite a while but I promised someone I’d do it and since hard drives prices recent prices reduction it seems  good time to post an update and some explanations.

First on additional SATA controller – To function correctly it’ll probably need firmware upgrade as described in Newegg customer feedback.

Second Regarding : Hard drives – Unfortunately these amazing mammoths of  storage aren’t really designed for any serious Raid usage, however their power savings could still used as an advantage in home media server, where performance isn’t main concern.

UnRaid – Is relatively new technology which could be perfect to be utilized in combination with green drives and it writes data without stripping to single drive and one more drive for parity. As advantage you get signle drive failure redundant and power savings (drives not used in write/read aren’t spinned-up. Cons are slower performance and slow array rebuild.
Software isn’t free and you’d need to get Pro version which costs now $110 (provide your own flash drive)

If you feel you still want to use regular Raid-5/Raid-Z arrays – FreeNAS (Free), however you’d want to extend the disk park idle time to hour or so by using WDIDLE3 tool. TLER couldn’t be anymore, however there are plenty of positive reviews of Tler-less drives working in software raid arrays.

Good luck.

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1		HEC Blitz Black Steel Edition ATX Mid Tower Computer Chassis Gaming Case w/ Front Blue LED 120mm Fan & Top 120mm Fan Model #:66RCBB Item #:N82E16811121096 Return Policy:Standard Return Policy In Stock	$64.99	-$25.00 Instant	$39.99
8		Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive Model #:WD20EARS Item #:N82E16822136514 Return Policy:Standard Return Policy In Stock	$99.99		$799.92
1		ECS A780GM-M3 AM2+/AM3 AMD 780G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard Model #:A780GM-M3 Item #:N82E16813135233 Return Policy:Standard Return Policy In Stock Mail in Rebate	$64.99	-$15.00 Instant	$49.99
1		hec Zephyr MX-750 750W Continuous @ 40°C ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified Active PFC HYBRID-SLI ... Model #:Zephyr MX-750 Item #:N82E16817339002 Return Policy:Standard Return Policy In Stock	$99.99	-$30.00 Instant	$69.99
1		Crucial 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT12864AA800 Model #:CT2KIT12864AA800 Item #:N82E16820148163 Return Policy:Memory Standard Return Policy In Stock	$39.99	-$5.00 Instant	$34.99
1		AMD Sempron 140 Sargas 2.7GHz Socket AM3 45W Single-Core Processor SDX140HBGQBOX Model #:SDX140HBGQBOX Item #:N82E16819103698 Return Policy:CPU Replacement Only Return Policy In Stock	$32.99		$32.99
1		SYBA SD-LP-PEX2IR PCI Express Low Profile SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card Model #:SD-LP-PEX2IR Item #:N82E16816124017 Return Policy:Standard Return Policy In Stock	$21.99		$21.99
Subtotal:					$1,049.86

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WYSE – Worst Customer service EVER!

GGGGRRRRR!!!
In my day job – Sysadmin I do come across tech support frequently but the Wise guys really drive me nuts !!!! The first tech to answer the phone (after 10 hold) was complete retard and quickly escalated my seemingly simple issue to tech level 2.

Then asked when I should get reply from “level 2” –24 to 48 hours !!! O_O !!!
During the early hours morning next day I got email stating my ticket status is now “waiting for customer” ???

I assumed I got early phone call – level two tech was trying to reach me ? No such luck.

The wise guys used their online ticket status tool to ask me few support questions… Basically an online forum support ??

Who the f-k they think I am ? This is not evaluation unit – Fully paid off hardware, software (TCX) and even maintenance (? - Support ) for It – and all we get I OFFLINE, Once a day support chat? By this rate the simple issue will be resolved by next coming.

RRRRRR !!!! I SWEAR – NEVER AGAIN !!! F.U. WYSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[/RANT] Sorry

Update:
It took almost week until this simple issue was resolved by surprising call with PRE-SALES engineer.
He barely gave me half an hour but it was fruitful enough to get me going. Still far from optimal.

I hate new IMDB Web Site Layout (Fix)

Login with your account or create one.
Go to your account
”Update your site preferences” under personalize
Check:
Show previous title and name page design (reference view):

OK.

Done ! Enjoy sane IMDB.

How to Hack ESXi Host to get Remote Console [SSH]

Here are the instructions for enabling SSH for ESXi host:

To enable SSH access in ESXi:

   1.      From the main screen on the ESXi host press Alt + F1.
   2.   At the next screen type:
      unsupported
      and give the root password when prompted.

   3.      Use a text editor to uncomment (that is, remove the hash symbol #) from the following line in the /etc/inetd.conf file, then save your changes:

      # ssh stream tcp nowait root /sbin/dropbearmulti dropbear –I

   4.      Restart the inetd process by running:
      # cat /var/run/inetd.pid
      # kill -HUP <pid>

   5.      Verify that the ESXi host is accessible by SSH. To do this from the SSH client, log in to the ESX host:

      ~ # dbclient root@server
      The output appears similar to:
      Host '<server>' is not in the trusted hosts file.
      (fingerprint md5 c8:28:e8:2b:97:0d:36:79:b2:62:03:5c:95:f4:b9:10)
      Do you want to continue connecting? (y/n) y

      root@server password:
      Tech Support Mode successfully accessed.