Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers. Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651 Find the disk usage of a directory […]
Windows 8 & Sun VirtualBox
While I wait for Windows 8 I look for ways to run this in a virtual machine on my workstations. I have been successful in running Windows 8 on ESXi and VMware Workstation 8 I had no luck with using the free product VMware Player 4.X. VMware Player was updated and now supports the […]
Jackson Pollock
Today my son AJ does some artwork on the computer that would have made the painter Jackson Pollock very proud. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]