Category: tech tips

So you’ve found yourself in a situation where you cant access a box with the VMWare C# client, restarting services doesnt fix the issue, and you need to

Looking for a convenient way to monitor your Mac’s hardware, show stats, and history? iStat Menus is for you. Appealing to your inner nerd. So – if your

Im not sure why or who decided that we don’t always want to see the scroll bar but, “No sir – I don’t like it”. It was driving

So one of the cool things to come from the fiery train wreck more commonly refered to as “Windows Vista”, was Aero. Aero was a set of UI

Once of my favorite parts of setting up a new Mac or doing a fresh installation is the slight tweaks and customization that can make the computer feel

When thin provisioning disk in your VMware virtual environment you may occasionally run into an issue where a VM is soaking up more space than it appears it

We’ve all been there.. Fat fingered a key when typing the password, or just lost the password all together. Well here is a quick, mostly safe way to

So – you missed that calendar event?  Cant find the event you saved?  Odds are you’re like me – you have an exchange calendar or gmail that is

So you getting tons of discarded packets on your windows VM hosted by VMWARE? I have run across this scenario in high load situations such as domain controllers

So, anyone could elaborate on this – there are HUNDREDS of pointers people could insert into this that would better the post. This is simply a one shot

To find the name of your PSC server, do the following: 1. Login to your vsphere server via web client 2. Click hosts and clusters 3. Select the

So – you just formatted your Mac, ya know… “Because – reasons”, and now you need to get back up and running fast.  You may have heard of

Want to install all available updates from a command line?  Here’s how. (Yes I know I already posted this…) Open terminal, type sudo softwareudpate -i -a and hit enter.

Open terminal and type “sudo shutdown -r now” (Without quotes), you should be prompted for a password.

Open terminal type “sudo softwareupdate -i -a” (Without quotes) Hit enter Supply the password when it asks Reboot if prompted.