Archive for December, 2007
Favicon Converter
29 December 2007 If you’re looking for a quick way to convert a favicon for your website, you can do it web based instead of downloading any third party products to your system.
Here is the site I ran across today:
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/gallery/
I haven’t had a favicon for a long time and finally decided to create one. I just opened […]
Happy Holidays
25 December 2007I hope everyone has happy holidays! I’ll be taking some time off writing on the site probably until after new years. See ya in 2008!
The specified key, name, or identifier already exists
17 December 2007 This was an interesting error I came across today when I was trying to clone a VM.
To resolve it I did a:
service mgmt-vmware restart
on the host.
Alternatively you can also issue:
service mgmt-vmware restart
service mgmt-vpxa restart
service mgmt-vmkauthd restart
Cheers.
New Server : HP Proliant DL360
14 December 2007 Well I decided to pickup a new piece of hardware for my home lab, a DL360. I’ve been managing a lot of HP servers at work lately, so this will give me more practice using some of HP’s management utilities.
I’ll probably throw ESX on this server, since it is only a two drive system, […]
ESX ISO Directory
11 December 2007 Here is a good method to have a central location for all your ISO files in your ESX environment. You could put them on say your Virtual Center server if it’s physical:
From the ESX host:
mount -t smbfs -o username= //windows server/share /vmimages/ISO” you can also use a windows domain username by typing “username=,workgroup=”
You will […]
Test Your Memory
9 December 2007 Trying to diagnose a computer problem can be a painful process at times, and sometimes it comes down to replacing hardware if you have spares.
Many hardware vendors provide diagnostics software for testing systems, but sometimes they fall short of being great. One good tool for testing your memory is called Memtest86. This is […]
Engadget Contest
9 December 2007On Black Friday, one of my favorite technology sites, Engadget, was having a series of give away contests. To play was pretty simple, all you had to do is leave a comment and they randomly select one of the comments and then you win if they selected you. So I decided to play, and guess […]