At the office we use VMWare Server on a couple of different systems to run “appliance” based applications, the problem is every few months the Web interface suddenly screws up and all we get is 503 errors when attempting to login. I’ve searched high and low for the cause and solution to fix it, as far I can tell its occurs because the server randomly deletes or corrupts some important Tomcat related content. Then the only solution I’ve found to fixing this is  completely uninstall VMWare Server, remove all the licenses, reboot the system and then re-install VMWare server.

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VMWare Server sucks!

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Recipe: Confit de Canard

I’m doing absolutely everything I can to avoid the World Cup football. In doing so we ended up at Alton Towers (handily a 30 minute drive from Hannah’s mum’s) on Monday

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Alton Towers Review 2010

I’ve been using Linux on servers for years, since before I started learning to code. Finally, after something like 7/8 years I am almost fully confident in severing the ties to my highly underused Windows installation on my personal laptop, but there are still a couple of exceptions

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Moving to Linux – Finding Alternative Software

I’m sad to say it, but I found Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash more interesting than the ‘political-point-scoring’ being broadcast on the BBC. I’m glad that Steve has spoken out and answered his critics so well, but I wish David and Gordon would follow Apple’s lead and get on with ‘leaving the past behind’. Political Branding I got a leaflet about Mark Hoban through the post this evening

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Thoughts on the prime ministerial debate

With new Google Reader Play: https://www.google.com/reader/play you can browse a slideshow of recommended feed items tailored to your Google reader profile in a slideshow format. Very slick and easy to use give it a try for yourself! Related posts: QR Codes Are Great! Recently I saw a symbol on the side of the...

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Google Reader Play: Stumbleupon for feeds

This is a very simple news system with comment support which is ideal for adding simple blog/news system functionality to any website needing that kind of system. In the past I'd usually use wordpress as a pre-built solution for adding this kind of content to a site and although you get a lot of extra benefits by using wordpress (as a result of its plugin system) there can be a lot of issues with tweaking the wordpress theme to suite the site. The method of embedding this system is so simple that it can be used easily within any site template and as such it's perfect for quickly adding blogging or news system style functionality to previously static sites or E-Commerce systems where an attempt at tying in wordpress could be very messy in reference to: About The Demo » Phpns » Open Source PHP News System ( view on Google Sidewiki )

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A Simple News System For Basic Websites

A really useful tool for providing simple stylised views of apache webserver log files via the browser. Ideal for providing a level of log file monitoring/analysis to novice web developers or website owners who don't want or need to see the raw log file text, but might need to keep occasional tabs on how the webserver is behaving as part of a bigger website control panel style app.

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Apache Live Log (ALiveLog)

So the “Microsoft Browser Choice Screen Update For EEA Users” has arrived in my list of potential updates. Interestingly though, Microsoft have not selected this update by default. That might put a dampener on Opera’s big day…

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Microsoft Browser Choice Update

I don't know if this is just my account, but from the point that Google Buzz got integrated with my Gmail Account (6 days ago or so) Gmail hadn't collected any email from the main pop accounts I have it setup to retrieve from. I've just forced a collection now and hopefully it'll all work going forwards, but I wonder if anyone else out there reading my blog has seen something similar... Related posts: QR Codes Are Great! Recently I saw a symbol on the side of the...

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Buzz in Gmail Potential Issue