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JFGI replaces RTFM. Just [Freaking] Google It.

By Andrew Pollack on 11/07/2009 at 09:15 PM EST

I thought I'd run into the first important software I couldn't use on my laptop with Windows 7. The Vsphere client for VMWARE ESXi. It wouldn't run at all., so I googled it and found two documents. The first, from VMWARE's site, said it wouldn't work:



The very next document I opened was written by someone who'd gotten it to work, and gave very detailed and functional instructions.



It's hard to remember what we did before the interwebs.


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