I was stuck in a strange situation today. Typically in software development, branches are used for “one offs” – such as a maintenance branch off of a major line of code.
My dilemma today was slightly different. I have an existing web site and I need to make a some-what duplicate of it for [...]
Archive for June, 2010
In a previous article, we talked about how to get SSH command line access in ESX 4.0. Well, now that you’ve got the access, what are you going to do with it? I use VMware Sphere for most of my administration, but every now and again I like to use the command line [...]
VMware Sphere is all well and good until you have ten or more ESX servers that you need to manage. Then it can be quite a drag to use the GUI to log in to each host and take care of business. In addition, VMware Sphere doesn’t yet support Linux… so if you’re [...]
So you’re logged into a server remotely and you have no idea what kind of machine it is… If it’s a Dell, there’s a fairly easy way to get the service tag as long as you have root or administrator access. Here’s how!
We talked last week about how to use VNC with a server that doesn’t have a monitor connected to it.
This week, I’m going to talk about how to get around the fact that you have to be logged into Gnome in order to use VNC.
I like Pidgin a lot (it’s an IM manager for Linux and Windows) , but having Ubuntu pop up a message every time someone logs in or out makes me crazy. It’s a pretty easy fix, though it’s hard to find because you might expect it to be listed in preferences. Instead, right click on [...]
I’m a Ubuntu fan. And they’ve made it really easy to use VNC (the Linux equivalent of remote desktop) just by choosing System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop. What’s not so easy, however, is when you have a server or desktop that requires X but you don’t have a monitor plugged in to the machine. [...]