First, what a tune, and what an album.
Midlaner
Someone who insists on driving in the middle lane even when the inside lane is clear, or they’re going too slow to overtake anyone on the inside lane. Generally oblivous to the world around them or just self-righteous. Referred to by Honest John as those with their ‘car in top gear and mind in neutral’
That nasty accident on the M1 this morning was caused by midlaners again.
Complihated
Difficult or convoluted in a hateful kind of way
Why is it that I always have to fill in these complihated forms before I travel?
Yes, “Secret Sauce” is getting very popular, wonder how long it will be until you hear someone say it, or even start using it yourself?
Please stop using ‘fess up. It’s not fashionable and it’s pointless. It also uses more characters than the proper word, if you include the space.
Edit: Workstation 7.1.1 is now available. it lists one of the fixes as “Corrects the error message displayed after a host crash occurs while working with a virtual machine”. Maybe this is what was happening, and it was nothing to do with the cd/dvd.
VMware Workstation 7.1, Server 2008 R2 VM, with an iso dvd/cd from a network location set as cd/dvd removable device.
On occasion, (I think if the network to the ISO momentarilydrops out) I get the error ‘vmware workstation cannot sync with disk before abort’ and my vm just powers off. Not good. Anyone else experience this? I have had it a couple of times now.
My first PowerShell script, it checks for running vms using vmrun, suspends them, backs up a designated VM directory using robocopy, and powers back on the suspended VMs.
#script settings
$backupfrompath = "c:\vms"
$backuptopath = "d:\vmsbackup"
#set location of vmrun command, can't use $env:ProgramFiles because of 64 bit OS
$vmrun = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe"
#get a list of currently running vms
$runningVMs = &$vmrun list | where-object {$_ -notlike "Total*"}
#loop through running vms and suspend them
Foreach ($guestSystem in $runningVMs) {if ($guestSystem.length -gt 0 ) {&$vmrun suspend $guestSystem soft}}
#backup vms folder using robocopy
$copycommand = "robocopy " + $backupfrompath +" " + $backuptopath +" /E /R:2 /W:10 /NP /LOG+:" +$backuptopath +"\robocopy.log"
invoke-expression $copycommand
#loop through suspended vms and resume them
Foreach ($guestSystem in $runningVMs) {if ($guestSystem.length -gt 0 ) {&$vmrun start $guestSystem}}
Notes:
set-executionpolicy RemoteSigned in PowerShell.program / script: powershell.exe-NonInteractive -NoProfile -Command "&{C:\backup\vmbackup.ps1}"Although this doesn’t negate the use of sysprep and doesn’t apply do DCs
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx
to get SID, download PsTools and run PsGetSid http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897417.aspx
Very interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
Early Focus MK IIs (up until the 55 plate) did not have stone chip protection at the back of the front wheelarch at the end of the sills. Ford’s resolution was to fix a plastic protective strip from this point right to the back of the sills to all Focus II and C-max from 55 onwards.
Ford issued a TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) for those with older cars who went to dealers and complained about rust. They still had to be covered by warranty and / or goodwill (note Ford’s anti-perforation warranty probably doesn’t apply to this as its rust from the outside in. And it seems you have to pay at each service for a bodywork inspection for the anti-perf warranty to be valid). The TSB is 722005 and it involves repairing the paintwork and fixing the same plastic strip used on newer cars
Since pre-55 plate Focuses don’t have the fixing points for the strip, the TSB describes cleaning the surface and using of two part adhesive to hold the strip in place. The plastic strip parts required for an estate are:
wheel arch protector: 1440535 (RHS) 1440536 (LHS)
plastic that runs sill length: 1380593 (RHS) 1380594 (LHS)
The parts might be the same for other focuses / c-max.
I decided I couldn’t be bothered with this potentially un-undoable fix and repaired the paintwork and installed mudflaps which cover, and, I hope will protect the vulnerable paintwork, although I’m not convinced that the paintwork repairs I did will hold for more than a few years.
EDIT: just found this post www.fordownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8380 that refers to the problem. It seems that it still occurs even with the plastic strip fitted to 55-plate onward cars. Interesting as well about the cut sponge behind the wheelarch protector, on one side of my car it was cut too, a very clean cut that I assumed was intentional, but thinking about i now was probably damage during installation. When I was wringing it out I noticed that they have small perforations, presumably to make them easier to compress when installing, or to possibly allow any trapped moisture to evaporate.