Archive for November, 2008

Techielinks for November 16th through November 30th

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

These are my links for November 16th through November 30th: How To Create A Custom Splashimage For GRUB | MakeUseOf.com - Nice tutorial about how to create a custom splashimage for GRUB in Linux UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads - Too good to be true cool util for Windows and Linux that ...

Configuring layer two VM as inline IPS in VMware ESX

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

To setup properly the portgroups in VMware vSwitching environment, we had to create two portgroups per vSwitch as depicted below: Reason for this configuration is that "operative portgroups" where servers and machines are connected should not be in Promiscuous mode to avoid sniffing other machines' traffic, while ...

Techielinks for November 14th from 10:50 to 10:50

Friday, November 14th, 2008

These are my links for November 14th from 10:50 to 10:50: Debian Administration - Debian Administration Resources -

What does it need to have graphical XFCE4 environment at startup in Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid)

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Taking short note so I'll never forget this again ;) apt-get install x11-common (if not already there) apt-get install xfce4-session apt-get install xfce4 ...and naturally ;) apt-get install xdm Should you need to set runlevel 3 by default (I wanted it), edit /etc/rc-default and replace lines running telinit 2 with telinit 3. Reboot.

Techielinks for November 8th from 09:17 to 23:36

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

These are my links for November 8th from 09:17 to 23:36: Crittografiamo facilmente le cartelle e i file su Windows Vista! - Geekissimo - Post in italian giving hints about howto encrypt Vista files and folders Gmail Backup | Safer is better - Nice utility to backup online GMail folder WordPress › WP-Cumulus ...

OpenFiler 2.3: USB2 disk volume groups don’t survive reboot

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Found excellent solution about the nasty problem described in subject and I'm reporting it here for the records. Short description of the issue I've written on OpenFiler Forum: Hi all! I'm using Openfiler 2.3 as iSCSI server for 2 ESXi 3.5. The system is configured with one 80 Gb internal disk where I defined ...

Techielinks for November 6th from 06:25 to 06:25

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

These are my links for November 6th from 06:25 to 06:25: 100 Percent - CSS Layouts: A collection of 168 Grid and CSS Layouts - Awesome collection of ready made CSS to save tons of hours in Notepad typing should you need to build up some web pages...

Techielinks for October 28th through October 30th

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

These are my links for October 28th through October 30th: Install and Configure Apache2 with PHP5 and SSL Support in Debian Etch -- Debian Admin - Good and clear tutorial about how to configure and enable ssl on Apache2 VMware Concepts Overview - Nice wrap up of main concepts concerning VMWare networking. Easy ...