Category: Personal Thoughts
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Great Script to tidy Up our Photos
I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill. they were either just to difficult or completely wrong. i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/ What a gem. if you can install ruby…
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Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser
I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers. They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large…
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Bongo Admin UI Images
I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think.
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Building the new Bongo Admin UI
A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with.…
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My interesting way to end a week.
This is an account of Thursday the 29th of September 2011 when my cynical view on Londoners only thinking of themselves and not wanting to get involved with other peoples troubles was blown completely out of the water thanks to some really amazing people who I don’t have names for but would really love to…
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How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database
I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out…
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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part 2
This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off
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ESX Trunk VLAN config for Storage
I was struggeling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAn. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise…
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Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches
I am busy working on a contract with a comonay that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have…
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Learning Ruby and rBongo with WeBongo
This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to programe. I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London,…