Categories
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 […]

Categories
How-To Technical

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, […]

Categories
How-To Software Technical

Updating ESXi 5 – How To

So you are running ESXi5 standalone in my house or your office.  You have a need up patch this baby for the latest in driver support for guest and perhaps for Runing Windows 8 on vSphere 5 Here are a few things you might want to know and do to make this happen   Make […]

Categories
How-To Technical

How to enable Kerberos event logging

This registry change works for Windows 2000/2003 /2003R2 and Windows Server 2008 and used for tracing detailed Kerberos events through the Microsoft event log viewer.   Enabling Kerberos Event Logging on a Specific Computer Start Registry Editor. Add the following registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLsaKerberosParameters Registry Value: LogLevel Value Type: REG_DWORD Value Data: 0x1 If the Parameters […]

Categories
How-To Technical

Gmail tips or tricks?

Here are Gmail tips or tricks that you may want to know about Use address aliases Gmail doesn’t offer traditional e-mail aliases, but you can add a “+” to the end of your username to create one. For example, messages sent to username+alias@gmail.com is sent to username@gmail.com. This can be useful for setting up filters […]

Categories
How-To

Windows 8, minus metro UI

Who would have known that I’d love the Windows 7 start menu.  Well I want it back and with the following tweak you can re-enable the classic start menu that we all have come to love. To get back the old start menu, open regedit, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer change value of RPEnabled from “1” to “0” […]