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How-to screenshot with an iPhone

I have always noticed that people had these type of things on the iPhone but never put much thought into it until I recently moved into a iPhone myself. I noticed in the application store that people were selling screen shot tools and even had free ones for use. When I stumbled upon how to […]

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How to: Remove Database Mirroring (Transact-SQL)

To remove database mirroring Connect to either partner. Issue the following Transact-SQL statement: ALTER DATABASE <database_name> SET PARTNER OFF where <database_name> is the mirrored database whose session you want to remove. This statement removes the database mirroring session and removes mirroring from the database. You can specify OFF on either partner. For more information about […]

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VIM_VCDB database ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full (part 2)

After cleaning up your Virtual Center Database to get us back and running I came across the following vCenter Server 4.x has a Database Retention Policy setting that allows you to specify when vCenter Server tasks and events should be deleted. Since this setting does not affect performance data records it is still possible to purge […]

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VIM_VCDB database ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full

Additional Errors:  CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 4096 MB per database. Cause:  The 4 GB limit is a limit of SQL Server Express 2005.   If you needed to grow your database beyond that size, you would want to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Workgroup […]

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Firefox + Cache + Ram

Playing around with using ram-risk configurations lately I decided to attempt to store cache data my web browser (Firefox) in memory rather than on the conventional location (my hard-drive). So by following these simple steps I was able to accomplish just this, and here are the steps I took Create a location where you would […]

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swapoff, swapon…

pre.cjk { font-family: “DejaVu Sans”,monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I have been playing a bit with running programs even virtual machines in memory. What I have noticed is that when all physical RAM is used, my Linux OS (Ubuntu) will move excess memory into SWAP. This is normal, but…. I am attempting to keep […]