I am just trying to install Fedora 18 onto physical hardware configured with a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. In the installer it gives you the option to choose the target devices. However it's "intelligent" automatic partitioner decides to put root on the 2TB volume and...
It's Friday night and I've just finished 5 days of VMWare vSphere training. I haven't done too many instructor lead training sessions during my years in IT. Most of the time it's been home and self study followed by certification exams. But I must say I was pleasantly...
This is fine if you do all your development in the cloud but what if you want to do local development and then parcel up your vm and load it up to the Rackspace cloud... Just sayin'. OVF - open virtualization format multi-file format. OVA is OVF tarred...
Fedora 18 has been released. Many Gnome 3 improvements. http://fedoraproject.org Get yours while it's hot.
Certification Flowchart http://www.vmwarelearningpaths.com Documentation http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html Hardware & Software Compatibility http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html Hardware for home and/or Lab you can...
Improvements http://lifehacker.com/5887848/make-windows-search-a-million-times-more-useful-with-these-simple-tweaks Bug work-a-round While looking at how to make Windows 7 search inside PDF's I found that I am effected by a PDF iFilter bug. With this link as the fix...
I have a 512MB RAM 20GB HDD 1st generation rackspace cloud server the result of cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 4 processors. processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 4 model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE stepping : 2 cpu MHz :...
I wanted a directory structure of /u5/db/prod /u5/db/test So I was wondering how you create multiple directories on one level without doing it across multiple commands. To do it in one line: mkdir -p /u5/db/{prod,test}
Problem: Just tried to connect to a Spiceworks instance and received the Spiceworks Server Busy page. Cause: Discovered if spiceworks-httpd.exe is running but can't connect to the spiceworks.exe process it will throw this error so it's not necessarily an accurate...
There are several utilities to transfer a Live CD Image to USB (usb-creator, liveusb-creator, unetbootin). And they fall under the heading of "Live CD to USB Drive Transfer Tools" I believe these do a lot of unpacking and reconfiguration to get the USB key to boot...