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Trying to Connect to a specific Remote RDP Session on a remote computer and you get the “Exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections” message
From a mate of mine Norman Goh: Issue: You need to connect to a specific Active Connection from another computer or your computer rebooted and left an active session which you cannot connect to. When you connect you get the following error message; Solution: 1. Login...
TortoiseSVN – Moving multiple versioned files
I feel silly I've been right clicking and choosing rename... from the TortoiseSVN context menu and manually renaming files to move them into other directories. But... you can do a right click drag and drop which gives you a context menu with Subversion options. Very...
ESXi 4 VM Backup using unsupported SSH login and ftpput
I got the skeleton of this script from another post. DISCLAIMER: Use this at your own risk. I am not responsible for any data corruption or loss that may occur if you decide to use this without first making sure it works for you. After playing around with it for hours...
Gnome 3 has option ninjas hiding in plain site
In Gnome 3 you have to press ALT while clicking the System Settings menu (the menu accessed by clicking your username on the top right of the screen) to get the Shutdown (Poweroff) option.
Copy file from ESXi Server to your Windows Computer using PuTTY’s pscp
You need to enable the unsupported SSH server on the ESXi box Then using the pscp utility that comes with PuTTY add -scp to the command line because the default sftp doesn't work. Here is an example of copying a file off the ESXi server from the command line of a...
Before you throw away your workstations shred your disks
I did this with a Ubuntu 9.04 bootable Live CD. Boot from the CD Choose to try Ubuntu without installing Start a command prompt (Applications ==> Terminal) # get root sudo su - # find your harddisks root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255...
