i believe i’ve experienced this exact same problem at least 3 times all because i keep repeating the same mistake. the problem is that i’m unable to ping the IP address of the service console no matter how much i mess around with recreating the vswif, verifying/changing networking settings, disabling/reenabling the vswif, trying different vmnics, […]
i recently played around with a kindle 4th gen device which is now simply known as the “kindle”. the 3rd gen kindle that i still own is now known as the “kindle keyboard”. the new kindle has scrapped the physical keyboard and in doing so has made the device much more compact. the screen is […]
there’s a very well put together vmware kb article regarding running a SQL script to purge old performance data from the vcenter database. the script is included for download in the article. source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025914
during my recent distribution upgrade to ubuntu 11.10 i ended up needing 2GB of free space in /var. no amount of me deleting excess logs and so on was ever going to free up that much space. i had a lot of extra space on /usr so i decided to use gparted live to resize […]
vectorworks uses a HASP license manager. if the machine hosting the license manager is going to be on a different subnet than the vectorworks clients, then the clients will require a nethasp.ini file that includes the IP address of the license manager machine. on windows PCs the file goes in the same folder as the […]
it’s been a few years since i messed around with windows imaging files (wims). here’s a quick list of diskpart commands needed to be ran to prepare a drive for the application of a wim file: select disk 0 clean create partition primary select partition 1 format quick fs=ntfs assign letter=”C” active exit and then […]
i was pleasantly surprised to find that you could still install a gnome classic-like option in ubuntu 11.10. i stumbled upon it actually while i was trying to install the normal gnome3 non-unity environment. i did give unity a try for about 20 minutes. i don’t outright hate it, if i could move the positioning […]
after upgrading to 11.10 i could start virtualbox, but could not start any VMs. i received an error stating the “vboxdrv” kernel module was not running. when i tried to load the module manually i got an message saying the module wasn’t found. i ended up doing a reinstall of the virtualbox-dkms package and everything […]