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Happy New Year 2012

Just wanted to say happy new year to everyone.  I hope you had a blast and got home safe. I look forward to  sharing more of my thoughts , tech updates, most importantly my experiences with all of you. – Jermal

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[SOLVED] Segmentation faulty tree…

I had this issue where I could not install anything new in my Ubuntu server. After some searching I come to lean that the packages cache seemed to be corrupted # symptom is something such as this root@media:~# apt-get update root@media:~# apt-get install htop Reading package lists… Done Segmentation faulty tree… 50% # and this […]

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Location of all user’s desktop and start menu in Windows 7

All user’s desktop: C:UsersPublicDesktop All user’s start menu: C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu

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How-To Technical

Windows Sysinternals – Auto system reboot

The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]

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Monitor disk i/o in linux

Wondering how much disk i/o is taking place on my linux server (Ubuntu). I decided it was time to install some tools to help me out. Here is what i am using: iostat iostat makes a snapshot of each available physical volume, and shows the current reads and writes of the volumes. dstat dstat is […]

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Convert thick disks to thin provisioning | ESX

Got Space? I don’t Seeing how it’s not possible to convert a VMWare Guest VM’s from ‘thick’ to ‘thin’. I will provide some simple info on how to clone the disk into a ‘thin’ disk. Once completed the original ‘thick’ disk can be deleted # remote into your ESX Server # service console can be […]