Working with a 4k laptop has been quite nice. There are many scaling features that account for various desktops (mine is currently Unity on Ubuntu 14.04). The text within Firefox does scale within itself. While it may be cumbersome to change the setting in a separate places, there certainly are some benefits.
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Publishing Update
A lot of time has gone by since I have had a nice grouping of posts. I do have way too many drafts started, but unfortunately have not been able to dedicate enough time to complete. I do want to get these drafts published – stay tuned as these drafts begin processing!
Ubuntu Login and Lock Screen Background Update
There are several posts out that that seemed to work for others, but I wanted to share my system configuration. The goal was to manipulate the initial login image and retain the lock screen image from the systems desktop. The dots are rather distracting too. Below is the setup I used to customized the system.
No Keyboard After Running VMware Converter P2V to Workstation
After migrating to a physical Windows 8 image to VMware Workstation, the keyboard was not working. I did have a mouse and the on screen keyboard to work through things. There were several posts that were available with suggestions, but these are the steps that worked for me.
Cisco 8945 on CUCM 10.5.2 Upgrade Freezing
I was working through a factory reset process on my Cisco 8945 phone and after the reset completed successfully, the phone attempted to download the latest firmware version from the device defaults page. The phone froze after powering on each time. Like usual, the fix was pretty straight forward.
VMFS Datastore Wants to Reformat While Adding to a New ESXi Host
While attempting to add an existing VMFS datastore to a newly built ESXi host, the host wanted to reformat the datastore instead of detecting the existing signature.
Windows Domain Server Failing to Start with c00002e2 Directory Services Error
In the process of migrating to new storage due to stability issues with the ageing OpenFiler platform, I ran into two of the DeStephen domain controllers having the error listed below. This seemed to be created after the storage appliance crashed hard. Below is the steps taken to correct the systems.
Ubuntu 14.04 Host Rename
Working with an Ubuntu system that needed a system rename was quite simple, but I wanted to share a quick note here for reference.
ESXi NFS Storage Add from CLI
After rebooting an ESXi guest, sometimes my NFS storage will no longer be visible to the system. Upon trying to re-add the storage to the ESXi host, it will error. To easily fix this issue, we will need to access the ESXi hosts CLI.
Reclaim Thin Provisioned Disk Space on Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine
Reclaiming disk space in VMware can be quite helpful when you are oversubscribing lab data stores. I had a Cacti database that had grown quite large and after exporting the data, I wanted to reclaim the disk space.