Using RemoteApp with VMware ESXi in 7 Easy Steps
18/01 2012 Posted in Technology | 0 comments
Have you tried XP Mode in Windows 7? Or VMware Unity in Workstation? Quite cool isn’t it! Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have the same seamlessly integration of applications running on a remote computer or from a virtual machine running on a VMware ESXi host?READ MORE
Enabling NTLM Authentication (Single Sign-On) in Firefox
1/11 2011 Posted in Technology | 0 comments
If like me you use Firefox within a corporate environment, you perhaps repeatedly get prompted for your username and password when you use internal web applications whereas Internet Explorer just lets you log right in using Single Sign-On (SSO). Some people don’t realize it, butREAD MORE
Logitech Squeezebox
27/10 2011 Posted in Technology | 4 comments
Here at Liquidstate, we have a growing family of Logitech Squeezebox devices. For those that don’t know, Squeezebox is a range of network music players originally from Slim Devices, who were aquired by Logitech. Much like their more expensive and arguably more popular Sonos counterparts, theREAD MORE
Supercharge your website with CloudFlare
20/09 2011 Posted in Technology | 0 comments
CloudFlare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and distributed Domain Name Server (DNS) service aimed at enhancing the performance and security of websites. According to CloudFlare, on average, a website using their service will load twice as fast, use 60% less bandwidth and will stopREAD MORE
Using Dell OpenManage with VMWare ESXi 4.x
7/12 2010 Posted in Technology | 0 comments
At home, I’ve got a Dell PowerEdge 840 server running VMWare ESXi 4.x. I was looking for a method to monitor and manage the underlying hardware – particularly BIOS settings and a way to ‘reset’ the alert light on the front of the chassis afterREAD MORE
Setting up NIS
The Network Information Service or NIS (originally called Yellow Pages or YP) is a client-server directory service protocol for distributing system configuration data such as users, groups, or host names between computers.
Typically, NIS becomes invaluable when you have a local area network with a numberREAD MORE
Mount NTFS partitions on RHEL
The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver and by a user space driver (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities and a developer’s library for other GPLed programs.
The quickest way toREAD MORE
Using RPMforge
The RPMforge.net project is an independent community-driven project to provide the infrastructure and tools to allow users, developers and packagers to meet and work together to provide and improve RPM packages.
Ethernet Teaming / Bonding
Link aggregation (also known as “Ethernet trunk”, “NIC teaming”, “port teaming”, “port trunking”, etc) allows you to use multiple NICs in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single cable or port, and to increase the redundancy for higher availability.
AlthoughREAD MORE
Using EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS. READ MORE
Using dmidecode to read the BIOS
Dmidecode reports information about your system’s hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliabilityREAD MORE
How to fix a failed RAID-1 array
Problem: One of the disks in your software RAID-1 array has failed. READ MORE
Converting from Ext2 to Ext3 filesystems
The tune2fs program can add a journal to an existing ext2 file system without altering the data already on the partition. READ MORE
Performance testing with Bonnie++
Bonnie++ is a short test, running about 30 minutes on a single client. The information it yields can be used to compare differences between different mount options, but its real value is in deriving CPU usage during the various tests it performs. A test that returnsREAD MORE
Port Forwarding
Its often really useful to be able to forward network traffic from one host to another. Possible applications include:
- Bouncing traffic via a trusted host in order to get through a firewall.
- Directing web users to an alternative server while performing maintenace on another.