Here’s how to do it:

Launch the Virtual Infrastructure Client. If you don’t have it, just http:// to your VMware ESX host and grab it from the front page.

Go to the Configuration tab of your ESX Server, then click on Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown.

By default (I’m pretty sure) automatic startup is disabled. To enable it, click on “Properties…” on the far upper right of the window.

You’ll now see this window:

Check/Tick “Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system”.

Now, this is the bit where I nearly cried…

You know you want to “enable” your Guest OSes to automatically boot, but how? I tried clicking and dragging, right clicking for a context menu to enable “Automatic start up” and gave up.

Turns out, you need to click on the Guest OS you’d like to enable, and then click “Move Up” until it sits underneath the “Automatic startup” title. Argh!

I really hope this helps someone out!

I then successfully log on to eOpen, and add the relevant licences. Then of course I want to download one of the applications, so I click on Product Downloads, and what do I see?

This:

WTF. I just filled out this information 2 minutes ago. Why can’t Microsoft pre-fill this information based on the information I just gave it! I thought the whole point of ‘Live ID’ passporty-thing was to make single-sign-on a reality and enable the sharing of information from a central repository.

What a load of crap. I really despair sometimes…

This is a great usability touch. It’s pretty likely that if you’ve entered your password wrong three times, you’ve forgotten it. Removing the hassle of looking around for the “Forgot your password?” link is a very nice, and welcome, judgement call.

Try it out

As a large part of the world reads from Left to Right, it makes sense that if you’re in a rush, your natural work flow goes left to right. If I was busy, and wanted to edit the public share, I’d probably click the button to the right without even thinking – and with no confirmation dialogue, I’d have instantly deleted the share that I actually wanted to edit. Not good design at all.

I’m not very schooled up on RegEx, and after spending ages searching for how to do it, I came across this:

<?php
echo implode(' ',str_split($credit_card_number,4));
?>

Hopefully it saves someone else some time!

Whilst reading up on IPsec at Wikipedia, I came across this:

IPsec is implemented by a set of cryptographic protocols for (1) securing packet flows and (2) internet key exchange. Of the former, there are two:

I want to learn about IPsec. I don’t want to be hindered by having to read back over the sentence to remind myself which was the former and which was the latter.

Would it be so hard to swap “Of the former, there are two:” with “For securing packet flows, there are two protocols:” ? I’d find that much easier to digest.

Whilst reading up on IPsec at Wikipedia, I came across this:

IPsec is implemented by a set of cryptographic protocols for (1) securing packet flows and (2) internet key exchange. Of the former, there are two:

I want to learn about IPsec. I don’t want to be hindered by having to read back over the sentence to remind myself which was the former and which was the latter.

Would it be so hard to swap “Of the former, there are two:” with “For securing packet flows, there are two protocols:” ? I’d find that much easier to digest.