If you have ever gotten this error it can cause a sinking feeling in your stomach. As good as virtual machines are and as much as I love them the one thing that can cause anxiety is if something should happens to the files that make up the virtual machine.
One Saturday morning I had to install updates on a critical mail server so like always I went to make a snapshot first. This way if something goes terribly wrong I just revert to the snapshot and I am back in business. So I right click on the virtual machine to take a snapshot. Instead of seeing in the task list the bivalent and always welcome “Completed” I saw “Detected an invalid snapshot configuration”. I thought oh no what has happened? I did some digging and someone recommended cloning the machine and that would take care of the issue. I thought that would be too easy but it worked perfectly.
How did I get into this predicament in the first place? This is a Windows 2003 Server and I needed to make some changes. I need to delete one hard drive and add another. The machine already had a snapshot on it before I made these changes. Thus the problem if you add and or delete drives while the machine has a snapshot the VM can get confused and thus you are stuck.
For me this worked. Hopefully it will help someone else.
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Google just announced their Public DNS product in their blog post today. Does Open DNS have anything to worry about? I would say maybe. Google only offers basic DNS at this time so they do not even come close to what Open DNS offers. The reason I say this is because Google has enough money to do anything they want but then again if that was the case why didn’t they just buy Open DNS? Who knows but this could be the first step toward offerings like Open DNS. If you are not familiar with Open DNS it is incredible what they offer for FREE. I protect my whole household from many bad web sites with Open DNS. It is my first line of defense in keeping the bad guys out. You can even setup a customized block page with an image of your choosing. Here is mine:
The other day I set up my Father’s network (one computer) with it and he calls me up and says: “I tried to go to this link someone sent me and your picture came up. How did these people get your picture? I explained the process to him and I think he understood.
The bottom line is although Google says do no harm, many people worry that they may become the Wal-Mart of the internet. Big enough to push their weight around and push the little guy out of business. Boy people love those low prices at Wal-Mart and I have to say I love most of Google’s products. Google has what some call a less than free model which worries many of their competitors. However if Google just puts out competition and not domination that will be good for all consumers.
I found this after I posted
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I have been using Outlook 2010 now for several days. I like it better that Outlook 2007 but again they have changed some stuff around. Not nearly as different as the change was from Office 2003 to 2007.
One changed feature is the file tab. I especially like the layout of File Tab better that the standard file menu.
I also like the layout of the new Ribbon compared to Outlook 2007.
If you use 2 accounts in Outlook they have move the accounts drop down. This is used when sending an email. You can choose which email address you want the email to come “From:” this also changes your signature if you have one set up for each account. The drop down is now above the “To:” field and is more appropriately called “From”.
Another thing I do like is the threading of discussions grouping as a default. The only thing about this is I wish they had made it a little smarter. It only groups on Subjects and not content. So for example when I email a distributor for a price a lot of the time in the Subject I will say “Price Please”. Well it groups these together even if they are not from the same discussions or thread. If they looked into the message (they already have it on indexed on the Exchange Server) and picked out key words they could group it on true discussions.
Overall I’m Happy with this new Outlook 2010 and think it will be a nice upgrade.
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