Dreamweaver Alternative – Aptana
Dreamweaver is very nice, but for personal use who’s able to justify the costs of the upgrades.
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Load Balance Apache with Highly Available Load Balancer Using Just Two Servers 2
My objective was to have two apache web servers that were load balanced, but I didn’t want to have a single point of failure load balancer and I didn’t want to spend the resources of two more servers solely for a highly available load balancer. So I combined to run the load balancers on the […]
Linux Boot Delayed by NTP
This is usually caused by a DNS resolution problem rather than an actual NTP issue. I power up and shutdown test machines all the time so things are always changing. If the configured DNS is no longer valid then boot up time can be painfully slow. In order to speed up the process there are […]
VMware White Box 13
I’m super happy to be off a couple small 4GB desktops and onto a real server class computer. CPU has not been the bottleneck for me, but memory has been very limiting. Most of my test machines sit around idle most of the time, but having to pick and choose which ones you have to […]
VMware PowerCLI upgrade VMware Tools
My searches for a script to upgrade the VM Tools without rebooting were all more complicated than I wanted to implement. After hacking several scripts I found I was able to create a ‘simpler’ command to take care of my needs and should be easy to edit for anyone else. Get-View -ViewType “VirtualMachine” -Filter @{“Guest.GuestFamily”=”windowsGuest”; […]
Surreal ToDo
Surreal ToDo is more than just a web based list management application. It’s more like your online notebook. Surreal ToDo uses PHP, MySQL and jQuery with AJAX for a web 2.0 experience that feels like an application running on your desktop. Everthing is drag and drop and loads and saves automatically. Create multiple lists List items are […]
Reporting Server Consolidation Numbers
It seems that anytime someone speaks or writes about how VMs they have, they always tend to say how many VMs per server. This information is almost irrelevant unless you know how big was that server. I much prefer if people would report how many VMs per CPU core they have. That’s meaningful, but what […]
Remove Nonpresent Devices 4
After doing P2V conversions with VMware converter I always go through the pain of removing all the nonpresent devices from device manager. I have now found a script that does all this automatically. Thanks to Simon Price. Download the script.
vSphere as a VM on VI3
Have a VI3 Infrastructure setup? Need to test vSphere before you install it on your prod systems, but don’t have the hardware resources lying around to do so? Then running vSphere as a VM is what you need. I found several articles that detail how to do this if you’re running VMware Workstation but not […]
Easy Setup of Active Directory Authentication for Linux
I have painstakingly been through numerous ‘How To’ articles for setting up AD authentication for my Linux servers all of which have never worked perfectly. If you’ve had similar experiences then just forget all those ‘How To’ articles. Download the open source utility from Likewise that does all the work for you. It simply works!