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Jackson Pollock

Today my son AJ does some artwork on the computer that would have made the painter Jackson Pollock very proud.     Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his […]

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Windows 8 on vSphere 5

So I have had this desire to run Windows 8 in VMware  vSphere 5 for a long time now.   Knowing I could run it in Workstation 8; I wanted to also run this on my ESXi 5 host, but could not… So I waiting waited for an update.  I wasn’t going to hack my way to […]

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Installing the Failover Clustering Feature (FAIL)

I have been looking into using Hyper-V Server and its features.  One of those features are the Clustering feature for migrations and fail-over.    After many articles telling me to do this, try that, this may work , and here is a step by step filled with many links to other pages, and sites.  I now […]

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VLC

There is no real need to post this because of how awesome it is. By now most of you know this, but for those of you who do not… It plays  almost anything!   I use it both in Windows and Ubuntu. Simple to install, simple to use. In Ubuntu sudo apt-get install vlc   In […]

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Joss Whedon, Serenity: Those Left Behind

“Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain’t comin’ back Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me There’s no place I […]

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Testing Another Theme

I was sent to a wordpress blog to read something and when I was there I was impressed by the theme. Who knew!  The same theme maker of the one I use now has made the one being used on this site. I liked it so  much I had to test it out. Site Visited:  http://crmdude.wordpress.com/