“East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done” – Jerry Reed Hello folks, so your playing around with VMware, or Virtualbox and you go to install Windows 8 and encounter the dreaded error code 0x0000005D. Yeah this one “Your PC needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error […]
Category: How-To
Need to take a screenshot, I bet you do. This is how: Press the volume down and the power button at the same time. Hold them in for about a second or so. The point is to press and hold the two buttons at the same time.
Looking to enable SNMP to do some external monitoring on my ESXi Boxen. I took a quick dive into the CLI and found a way to do this. Using our friend putty, I connected to my ESXi host via SSH. I then changed directory to the /etc/vmware/ folder: ~ # cd /etc/vmware/ ESXi 5 doesn’t […]
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain Sitting here playing around with some cli I wanted to know how much memory my VGA card was using so to find out I did the […]
I have been using Ubuntu Server to host many of my projects here at home; everything from my media servers, testing systems and web/blog site. I have install the VMware tools in the past and ran into issues or just found them to break. At best I just need the minimal the tools offer, and this […]
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Enable root in Ubunut
Annoyed with using sudo, and su -i to elevate yourself to root to do things. I was so I just typed sudo passwd and set a new password and now I can log-on as root. Cool Huh?