A couple of days I decided to update my main/daily laptop to windows 10 technical Preview. Prior to this, I have had it in a VM but hardly used it for anything I do normally. The build I installed was 9926. I use a lenovo yoga 13 pro. A month or so ago I did however get a break on the screen so I unfortunately do not use the touch any more as I don’t want to cut my fingers and touching around the break seems to send confusing signals.
Overall very impressed with this; although technical preview. Installation was smooth; I did not really time it but I think it took about an hour give or take. I like the way all my programs stayed and continue to work. Awesome migration/upgrade there.
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How to run multiple instances of Skype
If you are like me, you have multiple Skype accounts, one for work related stuff and another for personal stuff, or perhaps even more. You may also just have the desire to have that but have not found an efficient way to have these working on the same system. The main thing necessary is to start Skype with a /secondary option/argument So in a typical 64-bit windows system with default installation path, you will start it as follows
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Convert from EMC naa. to Device ID
This is a short how-to on converting the device wwn (naa. number) to a device ID.
Of course in real life one can always get this by using the symmetrix command line
symdev -sid 1234 list -all -wwn | grep wwn