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altiris training
Dear Symantec, Your web training for Altiris sucks. It is incredibly boring and not interactive enough. I’d be better off with a PDF to read, but none is provided and so I have been forced to watch slideshows for 10 hours (yes, 10 hours). I hate you. Love, Donovan
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argh! nic team/etherchannel with management port group
A few weeks ago, I was banging my head on the table trying to get the management port group working on a nic team/etherchannel for a client. They use Netgear switches, so I was kinda feeling my way through the GUI to make it work. Everything looked right, but I still couldn’t get the stupid…
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Updating ESXi 4.1
I recently went through the exercise of upgrading my standalone VMware ESXi 4.1 server. The process is pretty easy. Grab the vSphere CLI from: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/ Grab the relevant patches. Make sure you select the correct version of ESX/ESXi. I facepalmed when I realized I was trying to update using the ESX (not ESXi) packages and…
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OpenVPN and VMware
Promiscuous mode needs to be enabled on the vSwitch if you are using bridge mode. Remember that before you facepalm.
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Note to self
I went to a contract job yesterday and was working for about 3 hours before I needed a bathroom break. As I finally got in front of a mirror, I noticed my shirt was inside out! Hah! I couldn’t do anything but laugh. Note to self: look over yourself prior to stepping out of the…
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 3 (The End)
I’m going to call this a successful migration with a couple issues: 1) I didn’t/forgot to set the block size of the vmfs when I installed ESXi. The default is 1MB. This means my virtual disks are limited to 256GB. Not a big deal for now. I plan on putting a set of 2TB disks…
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ventrilo startup script
I made a post over at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1609521&highlight=ventrilo, but here’s a startup script I put together for Ventrilo 3.0. #!/bin/sh#### BEGIN INIT INFO# Provides: ventrilo_srv# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $syslog# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $syslog# Should-Start: $named# Should-Stop: $named# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5# Default-Stop: 0 1 6# Short-Description: Ventrilo version 3.0### END INIT INFO NAME=ventrilo_srvDESC=”Ventrilo 3.0″DAEMON=/usr/local/ventrilo/ventrilo_srvPIDFILE=/usr/local/ventrilo/$NAME.pidDAEMON_ARGS=”-f/usr/local/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d”VENT_USER=ventrilo…
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 2
The migration of my Hyper-V R2 environment to ESXi 4.1 is at the halfway point right now. At this point, all the systems have been imported into VMware Workstation 7.1 that I have installed on my desktop. The process didn’t go as smooth as I had hoped. For starters, I couldn’t use the built-in importer…
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the space in between
Besides the fact that I positively believe that I am TERRIBLE in interviews, another thing I hate about the whole process is the waiting. If you’ve gotten as far as an actual interview, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a timely response letting you know whether or not you got the job, need to…
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Adios Hyper-V R2, Part 1
So I’m in the mood to upgrade my virtual server. Right now it’s running some Phenom II Quadcore with 8GB of RAM. There are 2 320GB disks in a Raid 1 using the onboard nvdia controller. The disk configuration was a big deciding factor when I was trying to choose between Hyper-V R2 or ESXi…
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Squid 3.1.8 on Ubuntu 10.04
I find Squid to be very useful and have been disappointed that 3.1 is still not in any repositories. I googled a little to see if anyone has already done this, since reinventing the wheel is not really my thing. There are a couple tutorials/howtos, but I didn’t really like either approach. One approach uses…
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VPN with ScreenOS 6.2 and ASA 8.3
Setting up VPNs is always a PIA, but Juniper really dumbs it down and I have to say really spoiled me. So when it came time to setup another VPN with a partner who is running an ASA, I had to shake off the rust and think of what could go wrong. Most of the…