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Have you messed up or somehow deleted your service console on your VMWare server? Have you moved your ESX server to a new VLAN, subnet, or facility? How do you get your ESX server to respond via the Service Console if the IP addresses don’t match? The answer is esxcfg-vswif.

esxcfg-vswif - This is the tool to manage your Ethernet interfaces for the Service Console. Forget what you used in previous versions of ESX Server, the “eth” prefix is history.

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This is the famous “Atari Computer Desk” photo that’s been posted all over the web recently. I’m displaying it here to spotlight the Star Wars - Return of the Jedi glasses from Burger King. It’s been a while since the last one I owned was destroyed by the ide dispenser in my mom’s fridge. -Welcome back old friend!

Who doesn’t wish they were 9 years old again? Here’s another shot of the glasses from an eBay auction (notice the E.T. Glasses in the background):

Rob from cockeyed.com has built the MOASDRs.   

Sacramento’s most famous web scientist has finished a new project.  He calls it the “Light Sharpener”.  We call it the “Mother of All Solar Death Rays”

If you’ve ever followed one of Rob’s experiments, you know there will be tons of pictures.  This one is no diffirent.  The first installment starts here.

What do you get when you combine a camera with a computer?

-A computer-

Modeshift.org has an excellent article about the ongoing high-speed rail debate in California.

 “California Democrats have elevated building their state’s proposed high speed rail network to the top of their legislative priorities, according to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The Daily Kos, one of the most read blogs in the country, noted the swirl of attention that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stirred with his proposal to cut $2.5 million in state funding to the California High Speed Rail Authority, the agency overseeing the system’s planning.”

 @modeshift.org

“This morning on my way into downtown I spotted the Microsoft live “street view” truck. I only had time to grab one picture before my exit onto J street. Its a cameraphone pic so its not great but you can see the cameras on top of the truck and the Microsoft Live logos on the back. I did not catch the name of the company out on the prowl for them either.”

from: Jalopnik.com 

You have new Picture Mail!

Originally uploaded by TheRedMonkey
Here’s a photo that TheRedMonkey captured of the MS Live Streetview van driving in Sacramento.