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		<title>Moving VMs between VMware Fusion and VMware Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am gearing up for a large consulting engagement, and I needed to move two virtual machines created with VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro to VMware Server on my Lenovo Thinkpad.  When I did this, and tried to start them, I crashed vmware-hostd.exe.
To fix the situation, you will need to edit the *.vmx [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2010/01/23/moving-vms-between-vmware-fusion-and-vmware-server/</link>
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		<title>Windows Server 2003 Admin Tips &#8211; Find out more info about a user</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time between posts, and I wanted to provide some info for a common issue.  Say you are an IT admin and a user calls the helpdesk, but they cannot remember their login name.  You also want to see their group memberships as well in Active Directory.  You can even reset that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2010/01/17/windows-server-2003-admin-tips-find-out-more-info-about-a-user/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; TrekPay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I started using TrekPay a few weeks ago, and here is a short review.
First of all, if you want to get rich, go to college and get a job.  If you want to spend maybe 5 minutes a day and make a dollar or 2 per month, sign up for TrekPay.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/12/11/review-trekpay/</link>
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		<title>Bing Users are Apparently &#8220;Ad-Crazy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just came across an interesting article here that finds that Bing search users have a much higher click rate than other search engine users. 
From the article:  
&#8220;Bing users showed a 50% higher ad click rate than Googlers, so at the time our preliminary conclusion was that Bing’s success was being driven in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/12/11/bing-users-are-apparently-ad-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Screen Capture in Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first moved to Mac OS X, I knew I would have to figure out how to do a screen capture.  This is done in the Windows PC world by ALT+Print Screen to capture the active window, or Shift+Print Screen to capture the entire desktop.
There are several ways in the Mac OS X [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/12/11/screen-capture-in-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>MRTG &#8211; Multi Router Traffic Grapher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Howard
This blog post is a guest post by Kevin Howard from MRTGExamples.com.  This site is a fantastic resource for all things related to implementing and getting the most out of MRTG.  I have it listed in my links on the right side of my site under the Blogroll.
What I have realized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/11/20/mrtg/</link>
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		<title>Review:  Free Web Traffic Generating Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my first in a series of random reviews, I have taken some time to conduct a mini, informal experiment on websites that promise free traffic generation.  Many of these sites involve you actually &#8220;browsing&#8221; through their interface, and pausing for anywhere from 8 to 30 seconds before going to the next programmed site. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/11/14/review-free-web-traffic-generating-sites/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress update to 2.8.6 &#8230; not so fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, if you use WordPress (I use it on several sites), you probably logged into the admin interface and saw the top banner saying &#8220;WordPress 2.8.6 is available! Please update now.&#8221; 
For most of us in the IT space (and especially in the security space), upgrades for security issues are normally no-brainers.  However, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/11/13/wordpress-update-to-2-8-6-not-so-fast/</link>
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		<title>VMware announces VMware Fusion 3 details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VMware has announced that VMware Fusion 3, the next major release of its virtualization solution for running Windows, Linux, and other operating systems on Intel-powered Macs, will ship on October 27. The new version ($80, with an upgrade available for $40) promises more than 50 new features, including changes designed to make it run well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/11/03/vmware-announces-vmware-fusion-3-details/</link>
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		<title>Running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in VMware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have VMs of just about every version of Windows, and also have a VM running DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11, with the TCP/IP-32 driver.  Tony&#8217;s VMware site is a great link for all the drivers you will need to get WFW 3.11 running under VMware, including sound, video, and even a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/31/running-windows-for-workgroups-3-11-in-vmware/</link>
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		<title>Windows XP setupp.ini information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Windows XP setupp.ini file controls how the installation media behaves.  Is the install source an OEM version or retail copy of WIndows XP? First, locate the setupp.ini file in the \i386 directory on your Windows XP CD. Open in a text editor, and the contents will look something like this:
ExtraData=707A667567736F696F697911AE7E05
Pid=55034000
The Pid value is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/27/windows-xp-setupp-ini-information/</link>
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		<title>Turn your Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop into Mac OS X Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our household has recently (within the last 2 years) replaced a Windows Desktop and Laptop with a 20&#8243; iMac and 15&#8243; MacBook Pro.  My oldest daughter has gotten very familiar with the Mac User Experience, and I had a spare Dell D610 laptop that I gave her.  I went round and round with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/25/turn-your-ubuntu-9-04-desktop-into-mac-os-x-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Alternatives to Google Adsense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Adsense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing.  However, Google is not unlike a &#8220;black hole&#8221; when it comes to how they determine who can join their program, how their program really works (i.e. pays you for hosting their ads) or why you may get your account suspended.  Searching around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/25/alternatives-to-google-adsense/</link>
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		<title>ldapsearch script for querying MS Active Directory users, email addresses and descriptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a need to build a quick and simple shell script to quickly gather all of the user email addresses and descriptions from a MS Active Directory Domain Controller, so I could cross-reference with some user security rights and user identity tracking I was doing for a customer.  
First, I had a CentOS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/17/ldapsearch-script-for-querying-ms-active-directory-users-email-addresses-and-descriptions/</link>
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		<title>VMware OSX86 How To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I have owned a Macbook Pro for almost 2 years now, I did dabble (and occasionally still do) in trying to run various flavors of Mac OS X on Intel hardware.  I successfully had the Kalyway version of 10.5.2 running on my Dell Latitude D610 laptop, though I could never get the external [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/15/vmware-osx86-how-to/</link>
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		<title>miniBSD &#8211; Reducing FreeBSD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I worked on a side project that required a lightweight operating system where I could run a simple C program and a UNIX shell, so I naturally gravitated toward FreeBSD, as opposed to Linux.  The reason at the time (2004-2005) was that Linux distros like Redhat, Debian, CentOS, and even Slackware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/15/minibsd-reducing-freebsd/</link>
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		<title>Download Wii Covers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can go to http://www.wiiboxart.com and download all of the Wii Box Covers.  You will need to manually copy the contents of the zip file (version 1.2 can be downloaded directly here) to your SD Card that already has USB Loader GX or your Wii Boot Loader of choice.
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		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/15/download-wii-covers/</link>
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		<title>Top Ways to Get Google to Crawl and Index your Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since putting this web site up about a month ago, I have learned a lot about SEO and what it takes to get a site from zero to running.  I wanted to go ahead and share some tips and key steps I learned in the process:
It is helpful to have a solid idea of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/12/top-ways-to-get-google-to-crawl-and-index-your-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Create Microsoft Active Directory User Accounts from an Excel Spreadsheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the need to create a large number of Active Directory users.  I had an Excel spreadsheet with all the necessary info (CN, sAMAccountname, First and Last Name, email, phone number, job description), and I remembered reading on Microsoft Technet years ago for how to do this.  
Sure enough, there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/10/08/create-microsoft-active-directory-user-accounts-from-an-excel-spreadsheet/</link>
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		<title>Nintendo Wii &#8211; How to backup/store/load games from an External USB Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed my first guide on how to backup/store/load games from an External USB Hard Drive.  The guide links to several other key sources on the Internet, such as wiihacks.com forum posts, and the great guide hosted here at mikeandheth.com.
You can download the guide directly here.
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		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/22/nintendo-wii-how-to-backupstoreload-games-from-an-external-usb-drive/</link>
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		<title>Dealing with pesky .DS_Store and dot underscore files between Mac and Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use Windows Servers and Mac OS X in the same environment and share files, more than likely you have encountered seeing a bunch of .DS_Store files and files that start with ._ on your Windows file servers and SMB shares.
There are several ways you can take care of this on both the Mac [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/20/dealing-with-pesky-ds_store-and-dot-underscore-files-between-mac-and-windows/</link>
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		<title>Windows Installer command-line options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of preparing to help out a friend with some consulting help for migrating from Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 (SEP11) to McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint on their corporate endpoints.  As you may know, Symantec has the only corporate AV solution in the industry WITHOUT a centrally managed/controlled UNINSTALL function.
Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/19/windows-installer-command-line-options/</link>
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		<title>Pre-built VMware Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a great site here that has a whole list of pre-built VMware images.  The list of images include:
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
FreeBSD
Ubuntu
They include current versions and recent releases as well.  Great place to go for an already installed VMware image for testing.
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		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/16/pre-built-vmware-images/</link>
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		<title>Shrinking your Windows image running under VMware Fusion on Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article here on how to go about shrinking your virtual disk size for Windows images running under VMware Fusion on a Mac.  
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		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/16/shrinking-your-windows-image-running-under-vmware-fusion-on-mac/</link>
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		<title>Enabling the &#8220;root&#8221; user in Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a UNIX/Linux user for years, one of the first things I usually need when administering a system is root access, or at least su to root to run certain commands, like update software, reconfiguration of network adapters, and so on.
By default, Mac OS X ships with the root user account disabled.  You will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/16/enabling-the-root-user-in-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Cyberduck &#8211; FTP/SFTP browser for Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since making &#8220;the switch&#8221; from Windows to Mac as my primary OS of choice, I have become a big fan of Cyberduck.  I needed a fast and simple GUI method to edit and move files from Mac to my other UNIX systems.  I have used WinSCP and PuTTY for years on Windows, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/16/cyberduck-ftpsftp-browser-for-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>SNMP Trap Translator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite open source tools for collecting and processing SNMP Traps is SNMPTT.  I started my career in network management and systems management, and along with a good log management strategy, SNMP is a nice way to &#8220;trust but verify&#8221; when events happen on a system.
In an upcoming guide, I will put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/16/snmp-trap-translator/</link>
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		<title>Windows &#8211; Right click to a command prompt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When using Windows, it is nice to be able to simply right-click and pop open a command prompt, as opposed to Start &#8212; Run &#8212; cmd and pressing enter.  Running cmd.exe still requires you to go to the exact folder you want to work in.  Here are two ways to just right click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/14/windows-right-click-to-a-command-prompt/</link>
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		<title>Generic Shell Script compiler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had the need on occasion to quickly and easily obfuscate the contents of a simple shell script.  Shc is a great utility to do just that.  
Man page is available here, and you can download the latest source here, and I have used this on FreeBSD, Linux and HP-UX.
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		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/14/generic-shell-script-compiler/</link>
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		<title>Migrating MS Outlook Contacts to vCard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a need to migrate all of my Outlook Contacts over to Apple Mail/Address Book and Microsoft Entourage for Mac.  Since the Outlook PST format is proprietary (direct export/import from Outlook to Entourage is not supported), I needed to find a way to do this.  I decided I had 3 options:
1.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.breednet.net/2009/09/14/migrating-ms-outlook-contacts-to-vcard/</link>
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