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vExpert access to vCloud Air

By admin on May 5, 2014 in vCloud Air

Have you just been awarded vExpert 2014 status? Want to try vCloud Air for 30 days? If so, then you can now. Chris Colotti and Jeramiah Dooley have setup a process and plan to get vExpert’s free access on a rolling 30 days basis. Pretty cool or what? For more information on the process and to sign up for this free access, here is a list of required links. Please read the extensive program guide for full information. Program Information Post on Community Forums Program Guide Sign Up Form Participant Calendar I think this is a really great way to try some cloud resources for free. As a vExpert myself, I know I always appreciate new stuff I can experiment with, to see how it could potentially improve the infrastructure and designs I build. This is a great way to do this. As mentioned on Chris’s site, there is a few […]

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ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ – WordPress MySQL

By admin on May 3, 2014 in Word Press

Received this error today ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1 Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ on one of my WordPress installations after trying to restart MySQL. This is how I fixed it. This is the error I received when running # /etc/init.d/mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. # ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed It was showing one of my WordPress tables was corrupted. Don’t panic though, there is an easy way to resolve this. Run the following command myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options replacing the pathname with your path name. If successful you should see the following. # myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options – recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table ‘wp_options’ Data records: 253 – Fixing index 1 – Fixing index 2 Data records: 348 Restart MySQL again, you will see […]

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BASIC 50 Years Old

By admin on May 1, 2014 in Randomness

Celebrating 50 years of BASIC! Celebrating 50 years of BASIC! BASIC 50 years old? Wow! Lets say that again, BASIC 50 years old! I cant quite actually believe it. For anyone of my generation, who works in IT, they pretty much will have used BASIC at some point, either at school, or at work. I loved it, even at the age of 8 years old, I wrote my first BASIC program called Hello Daddy on my Dad’s Tandy 1000. I bet he doesn’t remember. For people of my sister-in-laws age BASIC was a simple powerful programming language. BASIC stands for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and you can read more over at wikipedia. It was a simple program: 10 PRINT “HELLO DADDY” 20 GOTO 10 I still remember doing it today. Shortly after that he banned me from his computer as I discovered the FORMAT C: command and promptly wiped out […]

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See you at EMC World 2014 Las Vegas

By admin on April 29, 2014 in EMC World

I will be attending EMC World next week to present a number of sessions on vCloud Hybrid Service. This post is really late I know! I am really looking forward to attending EMC World. Getting to present at another vendor’s conference is pretty exciting. Should be great fun. I am presenting two sessions at EMC world, one of those sessions I will be presenting alongside Chris Colotti. My schedule is as follows: Date/Time Session Title Presenters Monday 5th 13:30 Cloud-Ready Data Protection: Built For The VMware Software-Defined Datacenter & The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud David Hill and Clinton Kitson Tuesday 6th 12:00 Recovery as a Service with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service David Hill and Chris Colotti Wednesday 7th 08:30 Cloud-Ready Data Protection: Built For The VMware Software-Defined Datacenter & The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud David Hill and Clinton Kitson Thursday 8th 11:30 Recovery as a Service with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service David […]

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Celebrating four years at VMware

By admin on April 16, 2014 in General

Wow! What can I say? Its four years at VMware this month! I cant quite believe how quickly its gone by. I received the email saying that my VASA cubes will be delivered shortly! How awesome is that, a company that honours your four and eight years with some really nice glass art. To read more about the VASA Cubes and how Diane Green got the idea,click here. During my four years at VMware, my life has changed quite significantly. Both personally and professionally. From a personal perspective, I have got married, had a child, moved from the UK to California, then had another child (the first Hill to be born outside of the UK). Phew! What a crazy few years that has all been! I need a break from the family craziness now and lets escape into the tranquility of my daily work… (Tranquil? Yeah right lol) Highlights of […]

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