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Mines utility for OziExplorer [OziUL] web page update

Uwe at www.whitethaiger.net recently posted OziUL as a download on the Mines utility page!  This is wonderful news for all of you rockhounds out there!  Its a great utility if you use OziExplorer for exploration of the Federal open space looking for rocks and minerals. HERE is the link to the page, including some background [...]

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Attach an Epson Perfection 1200 scanner to a Hyper-V virtual machine

Well, I searched quite a bit and couldn’t find any way to directly attach my scanner (Epson Perfection 1200 photo) to my Hyper-V virtual machines.  I did find some software that functions as a "scanner server" very similar to a print server.  Its a client server set of software that operations together to allow the [...]

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Virtual MS Cluster in Hyper-V with iSCSI SAN shared storage

I needed to replicate an environment we use often in my daily work in the Medical IT field, and since I have Hyper-V it ended up being a bit more difficult to achieve than with Virtual PC.  We run the cluster in an Active/Active configuration so some of the processes may be a bit different [...]

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Google vs. Microsoft and the evil plot

About 10 years ago, I worked with a company that partnered with Microsoft in the Medical Software community.  Microsoft provided assistance to our company in convincing executives that investing in our company’s product was a good idea.  One of the interesting things to come out of the experience was that I got to visit Microsoft’s [...]

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