I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list. I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]
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Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine. In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it. In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]
After cleaning up your Virtual Center Database to get us back and running I came across the following vCenter Server 4.x has a Database Retention Policy setting that allows you to specify when vCenter Server tasks and events should be deleted. Since this setting does not affect performance data records it is still possible to purge […]
By default, the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems use KMS for activation. In volume installations, the setup key is installed by default, which makes the system a KMS client. If you are converting a computer from a KMS host, MAK, or retail edition of Windows to a KMS client, install the applicable setup key […]
alsamixer is a graphical mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to adjust the volume. It has an ncurses user interface and does not require the X Window System. It supports multiple sound cards with multiple devices. The top-left corner of alsamixer is the area […]
Kismet is an 802.11 layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer and intrusion detection system (IDS). Kismet works with almost any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a,g, and 802.11n traffic. Kismet Features: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a, 802.11n sniffing Standard PCAP file logging (Wireshark, Tcpdump, etc) Client/Server modular architecture Multi-card and channel […]