himuraken Looks like Christmas is coming a little but early this year in the RighteousHack household. I just ordered a new netbook for my significant other. After much research and being thoroughly disappointed by Dell’s “new” offerings, we decided to look at HP. From the looks of things that I found on the HP Mini 311 … Read more
When working with virtual machines, it is often advantageous to over allocate and under utilize resources. When it comes to virtual hard disks, this is even more common place. On low use or low demand servers, I always use thin provisioning. This saves disk space by only using physical disk space when the guest actually … Read more
This came to me via email and is worth noting if you are a Kaseya user. –Himuraken Kaseya Agent & Mac OS X Snow Leopard Important Notice: For planning purposes, please be advised that the Kaseya Agent for the Mac OS X is currently incompatible with the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard release. Apple … Read more
Recently, I converted a decently spec’d terminal server into an ESXi server after doing a P2V on the TS. After that, it was time to play. I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.04 server and then installed FOG. If you don’t know what FOG is, you may want to read FOG’s overview here. Once … Read more
This one is from a while ago. I originally used this back in May of 2009 and just realized that I hadn’t posted the link and info. Basically, shortly after migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2007 in-house, we purchased an SSL certificate for various reasons. Long story short, Outlook 2007 clients starting throwing certificate errors upon … Read more
Just thought that I would drop this link for anyone that may need assistance with recovery. This is basically a page full of links on how to recover from various disaster/app failures, such as Exchange, SQL, etc. –Himuraken
Firefox is a great browser, it really is. But I find that Opera just works better. I know that it isn’t open source, but it just has the features that I want. Plus, anyone that does research owes it to themselves to use Opera. Although Opera tends to have sane defaults, I find its built … Read more
Some time ago, I was looking for a simple way to backup my Linux desktop machines. I use to take the time and create my own rsync scripts etc, and get versioned snapshots. A few months back I found BackInTime. This tool makes backing up with snapshots easy. Check it out here: http://backintime.le-web.org/ –Himuraken