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IPv6 6in4 Tunnel via Hurricane Electric

I just got my IPv6 Address – and with the help of Vyatta now all of my home systems can reach the IPv6 address space. If not, perhaps you should register for a free one and give yourself the hookup – http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ Next Up: jermsmit.com goes IPv6 Hurricane Electric provides free IPv6 tunnels via the […]

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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 […]

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Switch to Pink Facebook’ Survey Scam

And again my friends are being scammed and spamming me with crap on Facebook This message appearing on Facebook claims that users can switch the colour of their profile from blue to pink by clicking a link (yeah, lame and why do people fall for this stuff) The post looks like this: The message is […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Windows 8 on vSphere 5

So I have had this desire to run Windows 8 in VMware  vSphere 5 for a long time now.   Knowing I could run it in Workstation 8; I wanted to also run this on my ESXi 5 host, but could not… So I waiting waited for an update.  I wasn’t going to hack my way to […]