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A change in theme

Yesterday I was feeling like it was time for a change… One of those changes was the theme for jermsmit.com. I’d been using my theme for a few years now and well I wanted to try something new.  …and today; here it is. Regular readers who check in via an RSS feed won’t notice any […]

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Dynamic IP Restrictions in IIS7

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module […]

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Chuck Mangione – Feels So Good

music by: Chuck Mangione vocals by: Don Potter   There’s no place for me to hide The thoughts of all the time I cried And felt this pain That I have known Because I needed just to hear That special something And then one day You just appear You said “hello” “Let’s make love along […]

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Goodbye Configuration Issues Warning

So you are running VMware ESXi 5 and enabled remote and local shell access. What you have found by doing this is a nice warning screen like the screenshot below waiting for you each and every time you are logged in. Getting rid of this is simple. Go to your host, click the configuration tab, […]

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Command-line + ESXi Fun

I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host. vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Get power state of a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> From the image above you […]

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2 Skype’s 1 Computer

For those of you who understand the topic reference. Shame on you. Doing some digging on how this would work i came across the following help document from our friends over at Skype (now, Microsoft) on how to run multiple Skype clients on a single desktop session. The procedure was shockingly simple to do. From the Windows taskbar, […]