Happy New Year TwentyTen! How many times have you “forgotten” a root password? Or been given control of a server set up by someone else? Hey it happens. CentOS Password Reset At the GRUB Loader, select the installation to reset, press A to append and press ENTER.You will be presented with a prompt that looks … Read more
Of course the first thing that I did tonight after receiving my 3ware 9650se was to install it in my ESXi 4.0 server and get it going. There are a few caveats that I expected and a few that I didn’t. Hopefully this post will help a few of you out there. Here are the … Read more
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
Ran across a very handy Firefox plugin for Nagios users – Nagios Checker 0.14.4. Super fast install and minimal setup to get going. Running View Expanded View Options include audio alerting, specific alerts to view, display settings, update timer and others. Once installed all you have to do is move the mouse over the status … 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
Why Linux and open source matters for small businesses and schools Hans Knobloch, Philadelphia Information technology Examiner This blog was shared with me last night and I think the points made for using open source (linux) are right on target. The general public may or may not choose to accept this but business use of … 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