Mass Effect 2 Extended: Interview Part 2

Video Games | Mass Effect 2 | GTTV Extended Cuts: Interview Pt 2

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Mass Effect 2 Extended: Interview Part 1

Video Games | Mass Effect 2 | GTTV Extended Cuts: Interview Pt 1

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Mass Effect 2 Teaser

Video Games | Mass Effect 2 | Debut Teaser

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Mass Effect 2

I loved Mass Effect and I can't wait to see the new game. My character is a total Bitch, who you don't want to cross.

Here is the Pre-E3 Trailer.

Video Games | Mass Effect 2 | Prelude to E3 '09 Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Release date: January 2010

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning Uphill... barefoot.. BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that o n kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it could take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause that's how we rolled dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'.. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!


You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled brats!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4

If you have not seen the announcement, VMWare has released a new update for ESX. Here is a quick overview:

Enablement of Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Expanded Support for Enhanced vmxnet Adapter
QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update
Emulex Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update
LSI megaraid_sas and mptscsi Storage Controller Driver Update

Newly Supported Guest Operating Systems – Support for the following guest operating systems has been added specifically for this release:

■SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).
■SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).
■Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition (32-bit and 64-bit).
■Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit).
Furthermore, pre-built kernel modules (PBMs) were added in this release for the following guests:

■Ubuntu 8.10
■Ubuntu 8.04.2

Newly Supported Management Agents
Newly Supported I/O Devices – In-box support for the following on-board processors, IO devices, and storage subsystems:

SAS Controllers and SATA Controllers:

The following are newly supported SATA Controllers.

■PMC 8011 (for SAS and SATA drives)

■Intel ICH9
■Intel ICH10
■CERC 6/I SATA/SAS Integrated RAID Controller (for SAS and SATA drivers)
■HP Smart Array P700m Controller

I have installed it on several machines and have had no issues with it. It also seems to have fixed a couple of issues.

How to Reset your VMware ESX Server root password

I found this and just had to share.. Since, I just had to recover a lost password..

Just like every other password, it is inevitable that, eventually, you will loose or forget the root password to one of your VMware ESX Server systems. So how do you reset your VMware ESX Server root password? Here is the procedure:

1. Shutdown and Reboot your VMware ESX Server

If you don't know the VMware ESX Server root password, you don't know any passwords for root-equivalent accounts, and your virtual center server also does not have it cached, the only way to change the root user password is to first shutdown / power off your VMware ESX Server.

2. Press "a" to modify the kernel arguments

As soon as you see the GRUB boot screen, press "a" to modify the kernel arguments, like this:

3. Enter single user mode

At the end of the kernel arguments command line, type "single" and press Enter, like this:

4. Change the root password

Now, change the root password using the passwd command, like this:

You will need to enter the new root password twice.

5. Reboot the ESX Server

Once you have reset the root password, reboot the server to go back into multi-user mode.

6. Verify the new password

Once the system reboots, verify that the new root password works, like this:

In Summary

Resetting the VMware ESX Server root password is not difficult but you will have to bring down the server, enter single user mode, use the passwd command, and reboot to get the task completed.