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    Programming Hyper-V Creation using WMI and VB.net

    Ok, I am working on a program for work creating VMs using WMI with VB.Net primarily as the user interface. I have been pretty successful so far, but have a hit a minor roadblock and was hoping someone can help me out. The following code works under PowerShell 2.0 when adding MS Synthetic...
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    The code works, just want to make sure I am doing it the best way.

    Hi guys, I am not a Perl expert, so I was just hoping someone could maybe preview this and let me know if there is anything I could do better. Below is an example of the output I am trying to parse, I am mostly concerned with the data under Name: for example "PHRCFL-xx-xxx". Compellent...
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    ufsdump/ufsrestore via Cron

    I am trying to automate my ufsdump/ufsrestore commands via Cron. But, I am having problems with ufsrestore grabbing the /dev/tty...since there isn't one. Does anyone know of a way to get around this?
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    Solaris 10 Timezone

    I have set TZ to read US/Eastern in my /etc/default/init file. I have even rebooted the machine, however, it always sets the timezone back to CDT. Anyway, ever have this problem? I do not see anywhere else it can be picking up the TZ variable from either.
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    Patching Problems?

    Been running into this problem and it is driving me nuts...was wondering if anyone else experienced it. I apply the latest patch cluster and everything seems all well. I follow the instructions and do a reboot -- -r, but when the system comes back up the output of "uname -a" still shows the...
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    Question - Should you work for a company that filed Chapter 11

    I don't know if this is the appropriate forum. But, I was wondering some opinions from people. I have been offered a position with Silicon Graphics, but found out they filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy back in May. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this?
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    Code Stealers

    I just want to vent out some frustration. I am UNIX Admin and I work as a Contractor for the U.S. Government. I am also prior Military. I have been working with this woman who constantly steals my code from my scripts and then claims it as her own. It has gotten to the point where I can see...
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    Sun Ray's and VNC

    I figured I would post this in case anyone else might find it helpful. I been wanting to be able to access my user's sessions remotely and managed to get VNC to do it for me. I downloaded RealVNC 4.1.2. I installed it in /usr/local/bin and created the password file under...
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    Set Array to zero after intializing it

    I created an HTA that when a button is pressed it creates an array with some numbers. Then it passes it to another function to sort the numbers in order. I have everything on that working. However, when the user clicks the button again it loops and keeps the old data. So, if I have an array...
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    Toplevel problem

    I am trying to create a pop window that would ask someone to change a user's password. It displays everything, however, the problem is it displays it on the root window "." I would like it to display on the new window that pops up when the button is clicked. Anyone have any suggestions...
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    TCL Banner

    I am extremely new to the TCL/TK language and have been trying to get something similar to a banner to work. What I have so far is: #!/usr/local/bin/wish8.0 set USER [exec env | grep USER= | cut -d= -f2] set HOST [exec hostname] label .main -text "$USER TOP SECRET SI/TK $HOST" -background...
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    Latest patches and then some

    Hey guys I installed the latest patch cluster in addition to about 80 extra ones -recommended from patchdiag-. Well after it gets done patching it fails to clear the /etc/mnttab I have to do it manually -machine thinks file systems are mounted when they are not- I also have to turn UFS logging...
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    Jump/Flashstart Problem

    I got this annoying Flashstart problem. I perform flash installs on all new workstations and servers. The installation works flawlessly, however, the problem is when the system is rebooted afterwards. Somehow the entries in /etc/hosts for the IP and Hostname are not added. I thought it adds...
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    fsck kills itself

    Fellow gurus, I have ran into a problem that is making me scratch my head. I powered off a Sun Fire V210 (init 5), so I could install a video card, that went well. However when I powered it up my hard drive started to have problems. It asked me to perform an fsck, so I performed an: fsck -y...

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