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$50 off Surefire Echo

By admin | December 11, 2011

Check it out, a really great knife which has already come down in price (to a more realistic number), is now $50 off.  This deal doesn’t seem to be too well advertised.  Get them while they are available, and Surefire will donate $25 to a great cause (Task Force Dagger Foundation)! Task Force Dagger Foundation: [...]

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vSphere Client and general VMware/ESXi notes–Part 1

By admin | November 30, 2011

How to COPY a VM from one ESXi server to another when you don’t have access to the physical server (only access via vSphere Client)? Method #1 (note* I suggest this is done on a machine (could be a vm) located near (network wise) the servers – otherwise its extremely slow): Download “VMware vCenter Converter [...]

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Extremely Annoying Ringtones

By admin | November 29, 2011

I use my iPhone as a pager (via SMS alerts) and need a ringtone that can ALWAYS wake me up in the middle of the night.  The default ringtones from Apple just don’t cut it (especially the ones used for text alerts).  So, like any geek, I created my own.   Here are a few [...]

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How to convert MRDS mines data to Garmin POI

By admin | August 20, 2011

Figured I would create a quick how-to on converting the MRDS mines data to POI.  This covers how to manually create a file from MRDS format to Garmin POI format.  To do this in an automated fashion (no real clue why you wouldn’t), see a future post on how to use MRDS-2-POI an application I [...]

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