Monthly Archives: April 2012

I work on remote machines fairly often. Sometimes a software install will ask for a reboot. But when you click the “Start” button, the options aren’t there! Right click on the task bar at the bottom and go to task … Continue reading →

I’m moving a database from MSSQL to MySQL, I was cruising along with CSV files until I hit a table that has some date columns. They weren’t showing up right no matter what, until I found this post: http://abbyandwin.net/blog/2007/08/14/how-to-convert-mssql-date-format-to-mysql Here’s … Continue reading →

Still considering whether it will be worth purchasing vCenter software, for now I am getting by with the free tools supplied by VMWare. To clone a new VM from one ESXi host to another, I powered it down and used … Continue reading →

We have a CVS repository on linux and Tortoise CVS users on windows. Sometimes we need to move our repository and users start seeing the subject error. Wasted time looking into it, has to do with UTF-8 stuff going from … Continue reading →

Handbrake is a great tool for encoding video. Best of all it is open source and free. If you are running Ubuntu server, here are the steps to install it quickly and painlessly! $ sudo su # apt-get install python-software-properties … Continue reading →

I have a brand new USB drive and I want to backup some contents on my server. I hooked up the drive and type “mount -t ext3 /mnt/usb /dev/sdc1” but the drive is not formatted so this gave me an … Continue reading →