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Some Basic Use of Nmap

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. I along with many other systems and network administrators also find it to be a useful tool for the right job. Nmap can be installed and used in Windows, and mostly common in Linux distributions such as Debian and the […]

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News Technical

Google SSL Certificates going to 2048-bit

Coming Soon! In August 2013, Google will start the process of switching its SSL Certificates over to 2048-bit for its services adding stronger security. This information was made public on Stephen McHenry’s, Director of Information Security at Google Blog. The completion of this project is set to be completed by the end of the 2013 year. […]

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Keep Calm and Install Wheezy

Want to give it a try? Check out the live images! Want to install it? Choose your favorite installation media among Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks. Already on Debian and want to upgrade? You are just an apt-get dist-upgrade away from Wheezy! Find how, reading the installation guide and the release notes.

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Hardware How-To Software Technical

Get the 3ware 9650SE working with ESXi 5.x

At the office we recently built two white box, built it yourself servers (lego’s). I called them Lego’s due to the fact they are build your own types and not OEM. For each of these powerhouse systems we got 3ware 9650SE RAID controllers (3ware 9650SE-4LPML PCI Express Lanes: 4 SATA II Controller Card RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, […]

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buslogic SCSI adapter is not supported for 64-bit guests

After converting a Linux (Debian) machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, to have a copy of my virtual machine running on ESXi 5.x in VMware Player. I encountered the following error on start-up: buslogic SCSI adapter is not supported for 64-bit guests There isn’t an option in the VMware Player to change the scsi type, so […]

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Enable VNC Console Access in ESXi 5.x

Long story short; I wanted to have VNC Console access to my VMware ESXi 5.x guest systems. Now knowing what I wanted I needed to find a way out. After trying many steps I narrowed down the steps that work perfectly in ESXi 5. First thing to know is that you require a custom firewall […]