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Installing VMware viclient 5.1.0 on Windows 10

With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 it was time to do some maintenance on my home ESXi server.  This server is a small variation of the Baby Dragon II and is so low maintenance that I even forgot what version of ESXi it was running. But, I did remember that you could actually download the Vsphere client... » read more

Pure-ftp and virtual user on Ubuntu

Pureftp is a simple and secure ftp server that supports virtual users that can be chrooted. That was I was looking for when I needed to provide some external access to my home server. However, as often, on Ubuntu things work a bit different then on other platforms and the documentation I found was only... » read more

How to edit the project.config for all projects in Gerrit

While I was evaluating Gerrit 2.6 I ended up installing the building the latest snapshot version (2.7RC) myself. All was fine until I was about to setup Jenkins to verify my commits. I was surprised to find the label "Verified" missing from the reviews. After some googling I found that in version 2.7 this has... » read more

Cross flashing firmware for Supermicro AOC-S2308L-8i

I was trying to install Openindiana using the Supermico AOC S2308L-L8i HBA but I was unable to get Openindiana to recognize the card. At this point I decided to cross flash the card to the LSI SAS 9207-8i firmware that uses the same controller. As a back up I downloaded the original Supermicro firmware from... » read more

Tomcat7 missing fonts

I recently migrated my tomcat7 server to a new esxi server and had the following issue: Caused by: java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error:No fonts found. There are a few explanations found on the web: Tomcat is running headless. Add this -Djava.awt.headless to /etc/init.d/tomcat7. Checked, was there already so this is not the cause. Add missing fonts:... » read more

Setting up ssl Subversion Mirror on Ubuntu 12.04

These are some quick notes on how to setup a subversion mirror on ubuntu 12.04 First install apache2, subversion and the binding create dir /etc/apache2/ssl and copy you ssl files to this folder. Update /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl or create a new site. Make these changes to the site config. Enable ssl module, the ssl site and then... » read more

Ubuntu house keeping

I am running a small Ubuntu server that I have just given 8GB of virtual HD space. I thought that would be enough. However, as I was trying to transfer some data to it I ran out of space. This left me wondering what happened. I went to search where the data was stored and... » read more

Mount error (12) after upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04

I recently upgrade an Ubuntu server from 10.04 to 12.04 and I encountered this error when trying to mount a cifs folder on a Windows 7 machine. mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) I suspected it was related to the recent upgrade but it turns out that the... » read more

Setting up permalinks on WordPress

This site runs on a Ubuntu 12.04 LAMP server behind another Ubuntu Apache proxy using a virtual host. When I tried to set up the permalinks it didn't work straight away. The .htaccess file was correct and mod_rewrite was enabled. It was the virtual host that had some issue. The website has been configured under... » read more