Beginning Scripting ESXi

Published on Jan. 6, 2009

I'm not impressed too often with much software, especially the closed source kind. I find a leaning preference to all things FOSS. If I had a million dollars, I'd likely spend all day contributing to all the projects I wish I had time to contribute to. Regardless, there are a ... Read more.

Speeding Up VMWare Server

Published on Dec. 7, 2008

I found VMWare Server to have very slow I/O, and sought to improve it. Below are a list of tests I performed, the change, and the results. ### Host OS ### /dev/sdb1: Timing buffered disk reads: 220 MB in 3.05 seconds = 72.17 MB/sec ... Read more.

My Portable Travel Stick

Published on June 29, 2007

This will be my last post from Taiwan, and I'm placing it in my tech section. Shortly I will be flying to Hong Kong, and then traveling into China. I'm not bringing my laptop with me. I'm always a little wary of using public computers, especially in many of the ... Read more.

Turn Off Google Suggest in Firefox

Published on June 7, 2007

I generally like Firefox, and generally like Google. But having Google suggest enabled when I search for things is annoying, at least on my rather small laptop screen. Mostly it is because my internet right now is pretty crap, so I try to cut down on any extra traffic. Anyhow, ... Read more.

Where the 'f is my Diskspace

Published on April 5, 2006

Logs spiraling crazy, we run out of disk space all the time. A nifty trick to find where the disk went is to issue: du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11 This returns where the disk usage is, and makes finding the bloated log a lot easier. Read more.

Firefox + BugMeNot

Published on Feb. 9, 2006

Here's a tip for Firefox. An extension called BugMeNot enables you to right click on "general" forms and say "Login with BugMeNot." Firefox will call the BugMeNot extension which looks up in an external database login information. For instance, www.nytimes.com requires a login, which is a great place to test ... Read more.

Building Custom LiveCDs

Published on Jan. 26, 2006

I have a feeling we will shortly be deploying many Linux servers to perform certain actions. Maybe we will implement Asterisk to be used as a VoIP interchange between locations, maybe the backup servers will be Linux based, maybe the BDCs. One thing that could speed up implementation at remote ... Read more.