Near-Line Storage For A Variable FIFO/LIFO Brain
Posted in Open Source, Technology on Mar 20th, 2013
Open ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc in your favorite editor Modify the line starting with MiscDefaultGeometry. For example: MiscDefaultGeometry=160×60+120+120 which sets the window to 160 characters wide and 60 characters high with the top left corner at 120 pixels to the right and down from the top left corner of the screen.
Posted in Open Source, Technology on Feb 6th, 2013
I just ran into this and thought it prudent to post something here in case I ever run into similar strange behavior in the future. I decided to evaluate Windows Server 2012. In doing so, I created 2 domain controllers – each running the AD bits, DNS and DHCP (btw, DHCP failover config in Server […]
Posted in Open Source, Technology, Virtualization on Feb 1st, 2013
This is a highly abbreviated how-to guide to build your own VMware vSphere lab very quickly: Acquire/build a computer with more than 16GB of RAM that will allow virtualization pass-thru (if you don’t already know, then research this before you proceed) Install your choice of operating system and virtualization package (I use VirtualBox on CentOS) […]
Posted in Networking on Jan 31st, 2013
Just figured I’d put this here for future reference if I find myself needing to push an IOS + Web-Based Dev Mgr to a device via TFTP in the future: Please the IOS + Web-Base Dev Mgr file in the root of the TFTP server Connect to device and hop into enable mode Issue the […]
Posted in Technology, Virtualization on Jan 31st, 2013
To renew the trial status of an existing ESXi 5.1 install: Perform a fresh install of ESXi 5.1 in a virtual machine (choose your poison for hypervisor – I use VirtualBox) Copy the /etc/vmware/license.cfg and /etc/vmware/vmware.lic files or contents of the files from the fresh install you just performed to the existing ESXi 5.1 host […]
Posted in Networking, Technology on Dec 9th, 2012
Download the ASA 8.42 files (asa842-initrd.gz and asa842-vmlinuz) for GNS3 from a reputable source (I got mine from http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l010dd0c1nayf0d) Open Edit -> Preferences -> Qemu and click the ASA tab Enter an Identifier name – I used “asa842” Enter 1024 in RAM Enter the following for Qemu Options: -vnc none -vga none -m 1024 -icount auto […]
Posted in Technology, Virtualization on Sep 28th, 2012
In the course of running my home lab on the latest VMware hypervisor (ESXi 5.1.0 799733), I thought it prudent to evaluate the install and function of the VMware Tools package for a CentOS 6.3 guest. Here’s how I got her done: Add the VMware GPG keys (optional, but a good idea): rpm –import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub […]
Posted in Open Source, Technology on Aug 3rd, 2012
I’ve been using Komodo Edit for the past few weeks to create/edit scripts – just don’t want to forget this option should the related synapses stop firing as well as I might hope… http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
Posted in Open Source, Technology on Aug 3rd, 2012
I downloaded the x86_64 fc16 src rpms from http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/list (0.9.7-1 at the time) and built them on CentOS 6.3 x86_64, which worked like a charm. Pre-reqs of auto-buildrequires fuse-devel scons gcc packages are necessary, so as root or sudo: yum install auto-buildrequires fuse-devel scons gcc rpm -ivh fuse-exfat*.src.rpm exfat-utils*.src.rpm Then hop into ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and: rpmbuild -ba fuse-exfat.spec […]
Posted in Networking, Open Source, Technology on Aug 1st, 2012
Login as root and run the following (accept all dependencies): yum install python python-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel libXext-devel gcc-c++ libXrender* PyQt4 PyQt4-devel qt qt-devel qemu-img libvirt Note: You need to pay attention to the output from yum as the availability of the required packages can’t be guaranteed – you might need to enable some 3rd-party repos and/or […]