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Windows 8 & Sun VirtualBox

While I wait for Windows 8 I look for ways to run this in a virtual machine on my workstations. I have been successful in running Windows 8 on ESXi  and VMware Workstation 8 I had no luck with using the free product VMware Player 4.X.    VMware Player was updated and now supports the […]

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Jackson Pollock

Today my son AJ does some artwork on the computer that would have made the painter Jackson Pollock very proud.     Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his […]

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IPv6 6in4 Tunnel via Hurricane Electric

I just got my IPv6 Address – and with the help of Vyatta now all of my home systems can reach the IPv6 address space. If not, perhaps you should register for a free one and give yourself the hookup – http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ Next Up: jermsmit.com goes IPv6 Hurricane Electric provides free IPv6 tunnels via the […]

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How-To Technical

Quick ESXi iSCSI configuration

Here is a quick walkthrough on connecting your ESXi host to an iSCSI target. [Start Now] Connecting to our ESXi server with the vSphere client is go into the configuration tab then storage adapters. Now we need to enable the iSCSI software adapter and click configure. After enabling the software adapter we need to point […]

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Switch to Pink Facebook’ Survey Scam

And again my friends are being scammed and spamming me with crap on Facebook This message appearing on Facebook claims that users can switch the colour of their profile from blue to pink by clicking a link (yeah, lame and why do people fall for this stuff) The post looks like this: The message is […]

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Configure Vyatta as a single interface proxy / content filter

As some of you may know I am anti antivirus solutions that actively run and scan my systems.  So I take many precautions to prevent infection from malware and virus infections.  All of which involve running systems with non-privilege accounts, host file blocking of sites and now adding a content filtering proxy into the configuration, […]