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VMPlayer Command Line Options

Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...] [--] [configuration file] where OPTIONS are: -v show program version -X Enter full screen mode when a virtual machine is powered on -U Enter Unity when a virtual machine is powered on -s NAME=VALUE Set Preference variable NAME to...

Securing SSH

Looking at my auth.log on an internet accessible server. I notice that there has been 3071 unsuccesful login attempts since last the logs rotated. cat /var/log/auth.log | grep invalid | grep ssh | wc 3071 49136 327541 # does any one know how to match two arguments...

Hard Disk Partitioning Fail

Just had a situation where I ran palimpsest and tried to carve another partition onto a 2TB disk which I had only put a single 500GB partition on. To cut a long story short I ended up losing the current partition on the disk which was also my /home. So not fun. In the...

Rackspace Cloud Server a Good Move

So I've been running on the Rackspace cloud for a week or so. The server stays up: w 22:45:08 up 4 days, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.10, 0.10 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/0 cpe-XXX-XXX-XXX- 22:45 0.00s 0.01s 0.00s w And it uses memory but...