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Keep Calm and

The British government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities by posting signs that read “keep calm and carry on”.  The intent was to strengthen morale in the event of disaster. […]

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Software Technical

KMS Client Setup Keys for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

Microsoft has posted the online documentation for the KMS keys for their latest OSes. In my case the only KMS Setup Key’s I care about are below: Windows Server 2012 Datacenter: 48HP8-DN98B-MYWDG-T2DCC-8W83P Windows 8 Enterprise: 32JNW-9KQ84-P47T8-D8GGY-CWCK7 Windows 8 Professional: NG4HW-VH26C-733KW-K6F98-J8CK4

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How-To Technical

Hyper-V VM Creation Fails – Product Key

Yes! Another error, and another thing to learn. I ran in to an issue while importing a new template from an existing image. Error message was: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter Product Key. It seems that the new machine is looking for a product key. The […]

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How-To Technical

Store virtual machine to library – Error

I attempted to store a Hyper-V image I was working with to the library for others to later use when I encountered the following error message. Message: Cannot store virtual machine <instance name> in cloud <cloud name> because this cloud does not have a stored VM path configured. (StatusCode: 22805–CannotStoreVmInCloudLibraryServerNotAvailable) I then discovered that I […]

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News

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)

I just learned that Roger Ebert has died. America looses one of its best journalist, film critics and screenwriters who was often desired as “the mother power pundit in America” who made history by being the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize also first to have an star on the “Hollywood Walk of […]

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Redit Offline – for emergency maintenance

We it seems that one of my fav sites ‘Redit’ is offline. At about 7:45 EST I noticed the regular under load logo later followed by their maintenance page. So far there doesn’t seem to be an update as to why the social news and entertainment website is offline. I’m still waiting for a twitter […]