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Altaro gives away 50 free PC backup licenses to all Microsoft Hyper-V administrators

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Altaro Software, a fast-growing developer of backup solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced that it is giving every Microsoft Hyper-V administrator 50 free licenses of Oops!Backup, their desktop backup solution.

“Following the success of our Hyper-V Backup solution this year, we wanted to give something back to the Hyper-V community during the holiday season” commented David Vella, CEO of Altaro. “Hyper-V admins can give out these licenses to their colleagues, friends and family, for use at work or at home.”

Oops!Backup is a popular desktop backup solution that allows users to preview & restore versions of their files from different points in time.

Any network administrator who uses Microsoft Hyper-V is eligible for the free license keys, they simply need to visit the Altaro website, send in a screenshot of their Hyper-V Manager and expect an email with their respective keys.

Cisco UCS Release 2.0

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 CISCO UCS

This monday Cisco released the the UCS Software 2.0, which brings a lot of bug fixes and important features. This major software release brings a new drivers, BIOS, software and firmware.

New Hardware Features in Release 2.0(1)

  • Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric interconnect
  • Cisco 2208 IO Module
  • 2500 Watt DC Power Supply for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

New Software Features in Release 2.0(1)

  • Licensing – Updated information for new UCS hardware.
  • Firmware Bundle Option – Enables you to select a bundle instead of a version when updating firmware using the Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
  • Disk Drive Monitoring Support – Support for disk drive monitoring on certain blade servers and a specific LSI storage controller firmware level.
  • iSCSI Boot – iSCSI boot enables a server to boot its operating system from an iSCSI target machine located remotely over a network.
  • Pre-login Banner – Displays user-defined banner text prior to login when a user logs into Cisco UCS Manager using the GUI or CLI.
  • Unified Ports – Unified ports are ports on the 6200 series fabric interconnect that can be configured to carry either Ethernet or Fibre Channel traffic.
  • Upstream Disjoint Layer-2 Networks – Enables you to configure Cisco UCS to communicate with upstream disjoint layer-2 networks.
  • Virtual Interfaces – The number of vNICs and vHBAs configurable for a service profile is determined by adapter capability and the amount of virtual interface (VIF) namespace available on the adapter.
  • VM-FEX Integration for VMware – Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides management integration and network communication between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter. In previous releases, this functionality was known as VN-Link in Hardware.
  • VM-FEX Integration for KVM (Red Hat Linux) – Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) for VMware provides external switching for virtual machines running on a KVM Linux-based hypervisor in a Cisco UCS instance.

More Information about the Cisco UCS Software 2.0 release

Microsoft’s Mouse Without Borders

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Microsoft Mouse Without Borders

Microsoft released a free software called “Mouse Without Borders” which allows you running multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse like Synergy. But the “Mouse Without Borders” brings a lot of cool features and an easy setup.

  • Use your mouse seamlessly
  • Drag files across computers
  • Copy & paste across computers
  • Share one keyboard across computers
  • Lock or log into all of your PCs at one time and share screen captures from one PC to another

 

Windows Intune July 2011 Beta

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Microsoft released the July 2011 Beta of Windows Intune yesterday. The new beta brings a lot of new cool features which were missing in the first version of Windows Intune.

  • Software Distribution
  • License Management for third-party software
  • Enhanced Reporting
  • Read-only Access Administrators
  • Offline Client Installation
  • Remote Tasks (Malware scan etc)
  • and more…

If you need more information on the July beta of Windows Intune you can download the Factsheet or get more information on technet.

I think through this update Windows Intune gets the features it needs to be successful. This is a great opportunity for small and mid-sized which not had a Software Distribution in place, to get an easy solution.

SVN Basic

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subversionA colleague made a pretty cool blog post about svn basic on his blog. Subverion is a software versioning and a revision control system. At work all our program code and scripts, every little piece of code is going in your Subversion repository. This allows you to get back to earlier revisions of the code or simply share and work on code with other employees. Even your documentation is going into the Subversion repository.

On his blog post (German) he shows the basics of subversion, doing a checkout of e repository, adding files, changing files, removing files and more.

Here is a basic list of svn commands, if you need more information you should check the Subversion Homepage or try the Blog post from tspycher.com

svn checkout  http://svn.colab.company.com # SVN checkout
svn commit -m "My Message and Changes" # SVN committing changes and new files
svn add /files/*.* # Adding Files to the SVN Repository after this you have to commit that
svn update # Update your local copy

A lot of IDE’s (Integrated Development Environment) like Visual Studio or Xcode have SVN integrated.

Simple Bean Machine program done in Powershell

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In the last article I posted the C++ Code for a simple Bean Machine output. Now I did the same in Powershell. I know this is not really a fantastic Powershell script, but its good to show others how things get done in Powershell.

Like in the C++ bean machine it works like this:

Bean MachineAnd the Output should look like this:

Bean Machine outputAnd here is how you do this in Powershell:

#Config
[int]$ballCount = 100
[array]$box = @(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
[string]$line = " +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-->"
[string]$numbers = " 0     5     10     15     20     25     30     35     40     45     50"
[object]$random = New-Object  System.Random

#count
for([int]$i = 0; $i -lt $ballCount; $i++){
	[int]$counter = 0
	
	for([int]$j = 0; $j -lt 5; $j++){
	$leftorright = $random.next(0,2)
	$counter = $counter + $leftorright
	}
	$box[$counter] = $box[$counter] + 1
}

#Output
Write-Host $numbers
Write-Host $line
for ([int]$t = 0; $t -lt 6; $t++){
	[string]$Statusline = ""
	for ([int]$u = 0; $u -lt $box[$t]; $u++){
		[string]$Statusline += "#"
		}
	Write-Host $t "|" $Statusline $box[$t]
	Write-Host $line
}

Simple C++ dec2bin program @KTSI

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This is a very simple dec2bin program done for KTSI.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

string dec2bin (int v) {
	if (v > 255) {
		return "";
	}
	else { 
		string bin;
		int oneorzero;
		for(int i=8;i>0;i--) {
			oneorzero = v % 2;
			if (oneorzero == 1) {
				bin = "1" + bin;
			}
			else {
				bin = "0" + bin;
			}
			v /= 2;
		
		}
		
	return bin;
	
	}
}

int main(){
    int v;
    do {
        cout << "Wert(ende = -1) = ";
        if (!(cin >> v)) {
            return 0;
        }
        if (v < 0) break;
        string s = dec2bin(v);
        cout << s << endl;
        //system("PAUSE");
    } while(v >= 0);
    cout << "bye" << endl;
    //system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}