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Recently upgraded one of our HP servers to VMware vSphere 4.0, and found that we couldn’t see the hardware status from the vCenter client.  All it would print was “Hardware monitoring service not responding, the host is not powered on”, despite the host certainly being powered on.  A VMware Communities posting suggested that it was either firewall related (nope), or that removing the host and re-adding it might work.  Turns out there was a third option – just disconnect and reconnect the ESX host.

So simple, and now I have full visibility of the fans and temperatures on the host server.

A while ago, I made the decision to purchase Lightroom, and then upgraded to Lightroom 2.  I’ve since added J. Friedl’s Facebook and Flickr plug-ins, and found them to be pretty useful.  Toss in the LR2/Mogrify plug-in, and life gets even better – LR2’s native watermarking is not very good.

As I’ve started to post my images across multiple sites, I’ve found I have the need to track where I’ve posted a particular image.  Enter the Adobe Lightroom SDK, a text editor and 15 minutes of effort, culminating in a custom plug-in for Lightroom that allows me to track precisely where I’ve posted an image to.  Even nicer, the fields are available in the metadata filter part of the Library, so I can open my catalog of 18,000 photos and ask Lightroom to tell me which ones were taken with the 50mm lens, and were uploaded to Flickr.

Pretty nifty.

Shanade Morrow

For the handful of people who actually read this, yes I’m still alive; I’ve just had no inclination to write anything here.

Been doing gig photography recently, and thoroughly enjoying it, even if the lighting can be an absolute nightmare for the D80.

Master Fiddler

The upshot is that I’m meeting people, socialising, and honing my photography skills.  Even better, I know precisely where I’ll be every Thursday night!