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While researching the hardware to purchase for a new VMWare server, I found that this SuperMicro X8DTL-3 Motherboard supports ESXi4, according to Supermicro’s web page. So I assumed it would work the the later version of ESXi (5). However, upon … Continue reading →

with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, I’m trying to clone (P2V) a running virtual Windows XP computer, but when I enter the Administrator’s username and password, I get the error as follows: the operation could not be completed for ‘192.168.1.2\ADMIN$’ due … Continue reading →

While trying to do a VMware Physical to Virtual conversion, the task failed at 1% with an error mentioning “Crypto Exception”. I found the solution here: “In Windows Explorer, browse to the folder C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\ssl When you try … Continue reading →

I was trying to connect from a NAT’d server out to an FTP server on the internet. The initial login would go fine, but then when I try to do anything else, 550 Data connection must go to same host … Continue reading →

I cloned an Ubuntu Virtual Machine, but the networking wouldn’t start; /etc/networking restart led to: “failed to bring up eth0” A lot of people have the answer to this one, this guy was nice and concise cd /etc/udev/rules.d/ mv z25_persistent-net.rules … Continue reading →

I needed to enable root ssh login on an Ubuntu (VM) server. Yes I know it’s a security risk, blah, blah, blah, this is a temporary setup so I can clone a VM. I googled around and everything said to … Continue reading →

I’ve been running fail2ban for a while but it wasn’t catching everything hitting the mail server. I kept seeing these guys with entries like this: vchkpw-smtp: null password given admin:75.146.111.10 who weren’t getting blocked even though they are hitting the … Continue reading →

I have had an android phone for about a year. Before that I had an iphone. But switched after hearing about how much better android phones are. Since then I have severely regretted the decision in almost every aspect except … Continue reading →

I’ve installed 5.0 a few times now and I seem to remember this coming up before. While installing it goes to a screen showing 34% progress and just stays there for a while. During which time I start wondering all … Continue reading →

As seems typical with everything java.net so far, instructions are wrong, links outdated, and following ‘how-to’s doesn’t quite get you where you’re trying to go. While trying to do a SVN checkout of the hdcookbook stuff, i followed about 5 … Continue reading →