Apr
14
Problem: When in Unity the Windows side seems to be choppy and sluggish when moving my icons around. Would like to get the performance to be a bit more smoother along with other issues.
Solution: This will be an ongoing document with more solutions as I find them.
1. Change your background image to a color like black or white. I chose black myself but either will work. Since you are in Unity, you will not need to have a background image. Very noticeable performance increase.
2. Turn off Windows Aero (if using Windows 7). Another feature that you do not need if you are in Unity.
3. Upgraded to VMWare 4.xxx and OSX Lion and unity seems to be working a lot better. However the mouse in windowed mode doesn’t work well at all. The cursor goes all over the place… We’ll see if Unity holds up…
More ideas to come but do you have any suggestions that might help performance in VMware Unity?
Apr
14
Problem: Have a old Gateway E2610D that will not connect to the internet. I check the NIC and I get link lights and when I run IPConfig, I get an IP address from the DHCP server but I can’t ping anything but the loopback. Turned off the firewall and updated the drivers to see if that would work… Nothing.
Solution: I had this same problem when GW was still a company and when these computers were still under warranty. Even thought the NIC seemed to be functioning, it actually wasn’t. GW sent me a replacement MB because it was a known problem with this batch of systems. Since I can’t call Gateway customer support any longer for this model, the solution is to put a new NIC in and disable the other. Works like a charm now.
NOTE: These machines were bought from Gateway’s public sector dealers and that is the business that is now defunct. Gateway retail which was bought by Acer is a totally separate business….
Apr
11
Problem: When in a Windows environment in VMWare unity or Parallels coherence mode, I want to be able to use the function keys. While going into system preferences within Mac will accomplish this, I would rather have the Apple function keys be the default because I use them much more than the windows side.
Solution: Very simple yet not as obvious as one might think but you need to use the “fn” key along with the function key of your choice. On the full size keyboard the “fn” key is found in-between the big delete key and the home key. On the smaller keyboards and the MacBook and MacBook Pros, you will find the “fn” key in the lower left hand corner of the keyboard; right below the shift key.
Apr
7
Problem: When trying to access files within a specific directory within a WordPress blog, I would receive a server side 500 error. All other aspects of the blog were working fine.
Solution: The problem had to do with the web.config file within that specific directory. Somehow some other entries were inserted into it thus creating the error for every file. I reverted back to the default web.config and all worked fine. See below….
Default Web.Config:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear />
<add value=”index.php” />
<add value=”Default.htm” />
<add value=”Default.asp” />
<add value=”index.htm” />
<add value=”index.html” />
<add value=”iisstart.htm” />
<add value=”default.aspx” />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Apr
5
Problem: Tried to install a new virtual machine on my Dell PowerEdge R310 server running Windows Server 2008 R2. Got an error saying it could not start my virtual machine because hypervisor was not running.
Solution: Power down the server completely. Power it back on and hit F2 to get into the bios settings. Go to processor settings and set the “Virtualization Technology” setting to enabled.
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