Monday, October 1, 2012
Server 2003 vs 2008 Free Space
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This turned out to be a partitioning error. I created a new virtual disk with a new partitioning scheme and cloned my data over to the new partitions. That fixed the problem.
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Something is very wrong here. I've been trying for about six months to upgrade an old Windows Server 2003 file server to Windows Server 2008. I have been getting a weird error message when it tries to reboot after the initial copying of files from the DVD. The error is:
This generic error obviously doesn't help. When you restart the installation it fails over and over with the same message.Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation.
For kicks and giggles I decided to boot from the DVD directly instead of running setup from within Windows. It said that I couldn't install Windows on my system partition because there wasn't enough free space. What in the world? I have over 90 GB free on the C drive.
Screenshot from within Windows Server 2003:
Screenshot from within Windows Server 2008 setup:
How can this be? What is going on here?
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Nano Sim in iPad 3
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Update 1/29/2013:
I am now using a micro sim adapter for my nano sim. Obviously, this works much better.
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I got my iPhone 5 on Friday. I'm loving the device. However, this post isn't a review of the device. I won't go into any details about it. I just want to talk about the nano sim in this post.
As you may know from a previous post, I like to tether using my iPad. The Verizon iPad 3 comes with free tethering. I've gotten used to moving my Verizon LTE sim card between my phone and iPad. However, the iPhone 5 presents a new challenge.
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I am now using a micro sim adapter for my nano sim. Obviously, this works much better.
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I got my iPhone 5 on Friday. I'm loving the device. However, this post isn't a review of the device. I won't go into any details about it. I just want to talk about the nano sim in this post.
As you may know from a previous post, I like to tether using my iPad. The Verizon iPad 3 comes with free tethering. I've gotten used to moving my Verizon LTE sim card between my phone and iPad. However, the iPhone 5 presents a new challenge.
As you can see, the nano sim card in the new iPhone is much smaller than the micro sim that the iPad 3 takes. I decided to try taping it into the micro sim tray.
The contacts are fully exposed as they should be. Let's try popping it in now.
The iPad seemed to recognize that I have a sim in the tray! I opened my Verizon and, yep, it shows that my device has changed from the iPhone to an iPad.
I ran a speed test and got a somewhat decent speed on the semi-congested network on the school campus where I work.
I popped the sim back into the iPhone and it came back online just fine. I love the FCC rules that force Verizon to leave their LTE network wide open for geeks like me to do stuff like this.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Old Tigrao.org is Back!
I just got done migrating all of my old posts from backups of my website dating back to 2005! I just got years of history back and I am excited about it! I forgot how much I used to actually post on my site. It used to be an engaging place for conversation amongst my friends. It's all back now.
Take a look for yourself by using the archive links on the right. For example, here's all the posts from 2005. You just might find comments from yourself that you forgot about.
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Take a look for yourself by using the archive links on the right. For example, here's all the posts from 2005. You just might find comments from yourself that you forgot about.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Migrated to Blogger
My ugly redirect from www.tigrao.org to my USU hosted blog has now been eliminated. I have fully migrated tigrao.org to be a Google Apps domain. I just finished exporting all my WordPress content to Blogger. It looks good so far. This doesn't necessarily mean that I will post more often. I really should, but we'll see. I always hated the ugly redirect, though. This is much better.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Finder and a Corrupt .DS_Store
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I've been beating my head against the wall with this one for three days now, but I finally figured it out!
This problem was due to a corrupt .DS_Store file in the user's Desktop folder. Removing this file fixed problem.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Triple Boot on MacBook Air
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Update - 8/14/2012: I've since wiped my MacBook Air Linux and Windows partitions. I just wasn't using them enough. Windows 8 completely strikes me as a mess of an operating system. I may come back to post step by step instructions as I do this again with the final version of Windows 8.
This post is a work in progress, bear with me...
I successfully have a triple boot with Mac OS X, Windows 8 Release Preview, and Gentoo Linux again on my MacBook Air. I used to have a triple boot on my old MacBook 13 inch with Snow Leopard. However, Lion changed everything. With the introduction of the Lion recovery partition, triple booting legacy operating systems that depend on BIOS emulation was no longer possible. This is because you cannot have a hybrid GPT/MBR partition with more than four partitions. GPT partition schemes don't understand extended partitions and MBR partition schemes cannot have more than four primary partitions. Mac OS X Lion now takes up three of those partitions with a default install. You've got the EFI partition, the Mac OS HFS+ partition, and the recovery partition. You've only got one left if you want to boot a legacy OS alongside Mac OS X.
I dreamed for the day when Windows could successfully EFI boot on a Mac. I tried it with Windows 7 and it failed miserably. I can't remember if I tried it with Windows 8 Consumer Preview at all. I guess I figured that Apple had to change their EFI implementation from version 1.1 up to UEFI 2.0. Apple still uses a wacky non-standard EFI. They haven't changed anything there. However, I decided to attempt an EFI boot from a USB Windows 8 installer to see what would happen. It worked fine! With Windows now able to boot and install on my MacBook Air in EFI mode, I resurrected my old EFI enabled Gentoo Linux image and restored it to an additional partition. All operating systems are booting and running just fine now.
In the coming days I will post the exact steps I used to achieve this. The only drawback is that Windows cannot use an accelerated video driver when booted in EFI mode on the Mac. If I don't plan on playing games on my Mac under Windows then it shouldn't be a problem, though.
Stay tuned...
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This post is a work in progress, bear with me...
I successfully have a triple boot with Mac OS X, Windows 8 Release Preview, and Gentoo Linux again on my MacBook Air. I used to have a triple boot on my old MacBook 13 inch with Snow Leopard. However, Lion changed everything. With the introduction of the Lion recovery partition, triple booting legacy operating systems that depend on BIOS emulation was no longer possible. This is because you cannot have a hybrid GPT/MBR partition with more than four partitions. GPT partition schemes don't understand extended partitions and MBR partition schemes cannot have more than four primary partitions. Mac OS X Lion now takes up three of those partitions with a default install. You've got the EFI partition, the Mac OS HFS+ partition, and the recovery partition. You've only got one left if you want to boot a legacy OS alongside Mac OS X.
I dreamed for the day when Windows could successfully EFI boot on a Mac. I tried it with Windows 7 and it failed miserably. I can't remember if I tried it with Windows 8 Consumer Preview at all. I guess I figured that Apple had to change their EFI implementation from version 1.1 up to UEFI 2.0. Apple still uses a wacky non-standard EFI. They haven't changed anything there. However, I decided to attempt an EFI boot from a USB Windows 8 installer to see what would happen. It worked fine! With Windows now able to boot and install on my MacBook Air in EFI mode, I resurrected my old EFI enabled Gentoo Linux image and restored it to an additional partition. All operating systems are booting and running just fine now.
In the coming days I will post the exact steps I used to achieve this. The only drawback is that Windows cannot use an accelerated video driver when booted in EFI mode on the Mac. If I don't plan on playing games on my Mac under Windows then it shouldn't be a problem, though.
Stay tuned...
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