Sunday 24 March 2013

Setting up a website for a friend

My English House

For the past few days I have been working on setting up a site for a friend of mine.  He wants to do some additional work as an English tutor working over the internet giving lessons via Skype.

I decided to  use blogger and a nice template: and so far things are going well.

Here is a link to the site : its also under links on my homepage.

If anyone has any suggestions on site design etc: please go ahead and let me know. 

Saturday 23 March 2013

Xubuntu: adjust screen brightness

Xubuntu: adjust screen brightness

install xbacklight (sudo apt-get install xbacklight) and try:

xbacklight -set 50

Linux menus and the Windows Start Key

Linux menus and the Windows Start Key

Linux distributions like Ubuntu open the main menu with Alt+F1 instead of the Windows key that most new Linux users would be expecting, but it used to be simple to change the shortcut key. Since Ubuntu 9.10 the process isn’t so obvious, but we’ve got the instructions for you.

Set up a Fog server for open source image deployments

Set up a Fog server for open source image deployments

Credit for the below should go to the Spiceworks user who posted this on the Spiceworks forum some while ago.  Its a great guide and I always turn back to it when setting up a Fog server.

Change the kernel that Fog clients use for PXE boot

Change the kernel that Fog clients use for PXE boot


We recently tried to use FOG to image a Dell Latitude E6510, and had problems due to the kernel that FOG was pushing to it. The kernel didn't support the Intel 82577LM Gigabit NIC. Here are the steps I
took to change the kernel to one that supported the NIC.

Enable remote access to server manager for 2008 servers


Enable remote access to server manager for 2008 servers


1.    Log on as an administrator to the remote server by using the console or by using Remote Desktop Services.
2.    Open an elevated Command Prompt window.
3.    At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
winrm quickconfig
4.    Connect to the remote server by using Server Manager.

Note:
You do not have to restart the remote server.

Viewing ESXI Host messages

Viewing ESXI Host messages


Navigate to: https://10.96.4.231/host/messages (using the example of the support server, substitute IP address of server in question) and then enter in root and password for local root user.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

My current favourite distros

Here are my current top 4