If you decide that you want to overwrite one of your hard disk drives before reusing or perhaps giving to a friend, you don’t need to download a tool just use a simple script. Be careful with this script as it will overwrite whatever disk you tell it to for
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Minimal Gentoo Installation…Fast
This post has now been updated (slightly) 05/01/16. For more in depth installation details visit Gentoo Wiki Download the latest install CD from your local mirror for example, Internode File Mirror Create a bootable USB using Rufus or Unetbootin and boot your machine from the USB drive. When booting from
Read moreMigrate from Evolution to Thunderbird
Just recently for work we had to migrate all of our users from evolution to Thunderbird, this is a boring process if you have to do it manually for an office full of people so I wrote a little script. Feel free to edit to match your needs. #!/bin/bash #Check
Read moreSudo is Mean
If you are tired of the normal error messages that come from typing your password wrong when you sudo then why not have it insult you instead, great idea. echo “Defaults insults” >> /etc/sudoers Why, Because why not?
Read moreExtend a KVM Disk
A simple one liner to extend the disk of a virtual machine running in KVM. qemu-img resize vmdisk.img +10G The disk will be extended by 10GB, it may take a reboot of the guest machine to pickup the change and you will also need to extend your partitions inside of
Read moreSerial using Screen
I thought that I had already documented this but it appears not, something I get asked now and again is how to access serial devices using the Linux terminal, a perfect example of this is older Lights out Management modules. The answer is Screen. screen /dev/SERIALPORT 9600 8N1 Just replace
Read moreNo Space on RAM Disk
Ran into an issue lately with a VMware cluster that would not play nice when scanned with the update manager in Vcenter. The error that it was returning was something along the lines of “Not enough space on RAM disk”. Turns out someone had configured the logging incorrectly and the
Read moreEnable SSH on ESX Host
Enabling SSH on ESX hosts is easy however you have to do it so little that it is easy to forget. In the VSphere client go to the “Configuration” tab and select “Security Profile” from the left hand menu, in the top right hand corner of the security profile window
Read moreError Adding Storage to ESX Host
If you have spent any time configuring VMware ESX you would probably have encountered the dreaded “Hard Disk is Blank” error when trying to add storage to your host. This error is more likely to occur when you are reusing a hard disk or if you are writing over existing
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