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At the beginning of the year I installed a Windows 2008 server running Hyper-V and 5-8 VMs for internal use @ home.
This was inital an test to go from ESX 3.x so I converted the vmdk- to vhd-files and booted them up.
All of them worked with minor tweaks and have been stable since.

Check out the uptime

See the System Boot Time for last boot date

At post-date the server have been up for 246 days (8 months, 2 days).
Windows is stable and can handle the virtualization as well as Vmware 🙂

My developer VM TBone has been running almost equal amount of time

I’m now in the process of implementing ESXi 4.x to my alternative server.
Microsoft do not support Linux very well, so my ESXi shall handle Linux from now on 🙂

Wish me luck!

This is a small update for Spotiamp, that ensure unicode support.

New colors, just for fun 😉

Bugupdate:
* UNICODE support handling of Artist and title in commercials
* Tracks without Artist or Title can be added as commercials
* Converts commercials.ini from ANSI to UNICODE silently

New features:
* Better adsupport handling (after 15 secs the interface are displayed again)

Please download here, note that the Visual Studio 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) is required.

I have just bought the Asus X93SV 18,4″ laptop (specs are equal to K93SV) and I wanted to add more ram.

When opening the bottom lid I got a surprise; there are only 2 slots and their were filled already with 2x4GB.
I start googl’in and didn’t find the information as easy as I wanted.

Sharing is caring you know, so here is a tip:
Below the keyboard is two free slots!

You have to dismount the keyboard by following the guide on this picture:

(Source of picture)

Make sure that you unscrew the correct screws, there is a small “K” mark in the plastic for them.
You only need to unscrew 2 of them, the third is used to push the keyboard up.
On mine there is a blank metallic screw near the 3,5″ drive and black above the RAM.

Note:
When keyboard is loose, handle with care!
There is a small ribbon-cable that you don’t need to unplug just to install the RAM.
Just flip the keyboard, install and snap the keyboard back in it place.

Suggestion:
Change the 2,5″ drive with a SSD to experience great speed and less noise, you’ll never regret that!

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