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Archive for February, 2010

23 Feb
2010

Share one VPN connection

My personal Linux laptop is a real spider in the web. It's got OpenVPN connections to the office, to the datacenter, to serveral family members, etcetera. I love it. But sometimes, there are some tasks that Linux simply can't do, like running a vSphere client. For those situations, I use

22 Feb
2010

Adobe Reader and Acrobat security update

The last year or so, Adobe Reader has had a whole lot of leaks. Trend Micro published a blog yesterday about the fact that Adobe released an out-of-band update to plug yet another security hole.

If you want

12 Feb
2010

VMWare Data Recovery default password

If you surf to http://[vdr-host]:5480 you will be asked for a password. user: root password: vmw@re Not very secure. Better make sure the VDR is firewalled.© GeekLabInfo

Virtualization | No Comments » | Tags: default password, Esx, Esx4, vdr, VMWare, VMWare Data Recovery, vSphere

4 Feb
2010

Magento and safe mode

The e-commerce application magento, for some reason, expects to have a lot of permissions on every server. One thing I stumbled upon when trying to install magento, was the creation of /tmp/magento/var. Since /tmp could be shared between all users, this may not be the safest way. That's why my

PHP | 3 Comments » | Tags: e-commerce, fix, magento, patch, PHP

3 Feb
2010

PXE Boot with old-style dhcp and tftp

In this article I'm covering the use of old-style dhcp and tftp, which is useful for company networks that have/need a complete dhcp server running. Personally, for smaller setups, I now prefer dnsmasq to do the job.

Booting from PXE

With most modern onboard and PCI network interface

1 Feb
2010

Firefox 3.6 update broke VMWare WebAccess

I already covered how to run VMWare Remote Console outside the browser. But the latest Firefox update broke more. It appears that Firefox is no longer connecting to SSL2 websites anymore. The problem accessing the console is that FF 3.6 now has SSL2 disabled by default. Open

1 Feb
2010

Running VMWare Remote Console outside the browser

Firefox 3.6 update broke my VMWare WebAccess.

Since I updated to Firefox 3.6, I have not been able to run the vmware remote console plugin anymore. Running Linux, this is a pretty important program, as there is no vSphere client for Linux.

How to run VMWare Console from the bash

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Ratings

KB974417 install fails – working solution!

(5.00/5)
Running VMWare Remote Console outside the browser

(5.00/5)
Fedora 15: Nagios errors

(5.00/5)
VMWare Data Recovery default password

(5.00/5)
SGS2: Removing Bol.com app

(5.00/5)
Android: Calendar items set to tentative

(5.00/5)
KB974417 install fails – working solution! – updated

(5.00/5)
Remote wipe for Windows clients

(5.00/5)
Lovelock: Mozilla as default browser from Thunderbird

(5.00/5)
Share one VPN connection

(5.00/5)

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