I needed to come up with this and it took me a bit to find the simplest solution so I thought I would share it. Please note that this is a Linux solution. Problem: You have one line in a multi line file that contains a character (or set of Read more…
In attempting to run a virtual appliance with VMWare I ran into a problem where the VA would not load the network. It turns out that this is because of the developers not handling the configuration files to make everything virtual machine distributable. So, if you see the error below, Read more…
I've had this error for a bit and finally decided to do something to address it. Now, it should be noted that if you actually do have an Intel processor that is functioning as your graphics card then you may have another problem and this modification could cause you to have more system Read more…
I've tried others (as you can see by my site) but Copy (by Barracuda) is turning out to be the best cloud storage platform I've worked with so far. The reason that I've begun to use this software so extensively is focused around my need to administrate multiple systems in Read more…
I have been fighting for some time with iptables logs going to the kern.log, debug.log and messages files. This is ridiculously spammy and makes it very difficult to find other problems that might show up in these logs. In my searches I found the following blog entry, used it as Read more…
This is always a quirky challenge when it comes to Linux. The hostname command is used to display and set the hostname… sort of. As you probably know (if you're reading this), typically this command only temporarily sets the hostname and once you reboot, it's gone. On most systems this Read more…
It's been a while since I've started using KVM/QEMU in conjunction with Archipel. I can say that this has been ANYTHING BUT an easy journey. My previous findings… that while the core virtualization product might be ready for prime time but the management tools are not… is proving to be an Read more…