Make your media player "Always On Top" of other windows

This is a very useful feature which can allow you to watch video while surfing net, especially if you are surfing those Paid To Click (PTC) pages. This post will show you how to set the "Always On Top" feature on the following media player.

VLC Media Player


Windows Media Player

For Windows Media Player, you need to go to Tools->Options... and the setting is under Player tab.


Real Player

Install 2008 R2 on ESX 3.5 with Dell T410

If you encounter the following message when you try to install 2008 R2 as a VM in Dell T410:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause... File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe Status: 0xc000035a Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.

you need to enable virtualization technology to overcome this problem

From BIOS screen, go to Processor Settings

Change "Virtualization Technology" to "Enabled"

Fibre Channel (FC) Disk Interface

Dell T410 pictures

T410

This configuration can put in 6 3.5" harddisk

T410 internal: There are 5 PCIe slots and take note that one slot is being used by the SAS card. All slots are PCIe Generation 2 except for slot 3.

Dell T710 pictures

T710
This configuration can put in 8 x 3.5" harddisk

T710 internal

T710 internal: With the cover taken away, you can see the processor and also the memory slots. Processors are E5502. It can support 144GB memory if all the memory slots are fully populate with 8GB RAM.

T710 internal: There are 6 PCIe slots, 4 are x8, 1 is x16 and 1 is x4 and all are PCIe generation 2 which means each lane can support up to 5.0 Gb/s. There is actually one more PCIe slot which is actually being used to plug the SAS card.

Can't initialize IBM DS4800 LUN under Windows 2003

Scenario:

You create 2 LUNs from IBM and assign it to one Windows host. You have no problem initialize the first LUN but when it comes to second LUN, Windows will prompt message saying "The operation did not complete. Check the System Event Log for more information on the error" and you are unable to initialize.


When you go the Event viewer, the viewer shows "The device....disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal"


The problem might be because you allocate the LUN to the different controller that you connect to your host as shown in the diagram below.

So to solve this, you can set the Ownership/Preferred Path to Controller in Slot A. Take note that if you only have one LUN and you allocate to controller that is not connected to your host. You might not even see the LUN from your host at all.

Set note pages slide image and notes image to standard size

This usually happen when you copy a bunch of slides from other presentation and incorporate it into your current presentation. and the result might be what you see below, page 1's slide image is smaller than page 2's slide image

Page 1

Page 2

To overcome this, i prepare the VBA script below. Not sure if there is a non-VBA method that can be used to solve this, but if yes, please let me know also.

Sub resize()
    Dim x As Long
    Dim y As Long
    Dim i As Long
    Dim arrayCount As Integer
    Dim shapeNameArray() As String

    ' Loop through every presentation slide(s)
    For x = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

        ' Manipulate shapes in notespage view
        With ActivePresentation.Slides(x).NotesPage

        ' Loop through every shapes in the notepage view slide
        For y = 1 To .Shapes.Count

            ' To select the presentation slide
            ' Usually the presentation slide will be on top,
            ' so use top property to limit the selection
            ' the use of height property is optional
            ' the use of this is mainly to filter away shapes like
            ' header, footer and page number
            ' which might be in place, and usually those shapes' height will not
            ' be higher than 90, so i use this as the condition
            ' The reason i say is optional is because you can always go to
            ' Edit Header and Footer to take out 
            ' all header, footer and page number 
            ' and reapply them later
            ' 1 inchi= 72

            If .Shapes(y).Top < 100 And .Shapes(y).Height > 90 Then
                .Shapes(y).Height = 364.32
                .Shapes(y).Width = 486
                .Shapes(y).Top = 28.08
                .Shapes(y).Left = 46.8
   
            ' To select the notes page
            ' Usually notes page will be be below presentation slide
            ' so use top property to limit the selection
            ' Again use of height is optional
   
            ElseIf .Shapes(y).Height > 90 And .Shapes(y).Top > 100 Then
                .Shapes(y).Height = 322.56
                .Shapes(y).Width = 486
                .Shapes(y).Top = 404.64
                .Shapes(y).Left = 46.8
            Else
                ' Do nothing
                ' or you want to apply something to the filtered shape here
            End If

        Next y
        End With
    Next x
End Sub

To use this code, you must first enable macro if you have not donw so and then open the VBA editor, follow this link to find out how to do it. Remember, always make a copy of your power point slide before you applying any changes to it. This code is only tested on PowerPoint 2007.