While testing a vCenter Heartbeat (vCHB) installation, I cloned the Windows VM used for vCenter Server, but did not use guest customization as the vCHB…
Joomla migration with Akeeba Backup
I moved my site to a new server last month, did you notice? Well, maybe some of you did as the server was unavailable for…
procmail: Renaming bogus mailbox
One of my web hosting customers reported that emails sent from his account were returned with the following error message: can’t create user output file.…
Creating a LVM filesystem
This post is more for more reference, but hopefully someone else finds it useful as well. There are several posts online about LVM, but the…
Default gateway on Windows system disappears on reboot
This appears to be an old problem that keeps popping up, but I just experienced it for the first time. I was tasked with deploying…
Using diff when the same text is on different lines
I recently ran into an issue where I needed to diff two files and determine what text was different though I did not want text…
Windows XP – How to log in as administrator
So I installed a Windows XP VM the other day with a corporate ISO file. The initial login screen showed the administrator account and another…
SVN Issues
I do not use SVN to its full potential, but that is not to say I have not run into a fair number of problems…
Apache + SSL Certificates – Part 3
So, you are ready to purchase SSL certificates, did you know that not all SSL certificates are created equally? Let me start by taking a…
Apache + SSL Certificates – Part 2
The problem with supporting multiple host names over SSL on the same server is that they each require a unique, static IP address. As many…