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.
Working with an Ubuntu system that needed a system rename was quite simple, but I wanted to share a quick note here for reference.
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.
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.
This process will walk through the steps take to setup a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a media server that is capable of providing media in your car. The main requirement is to be able to support multiple steaming videos simultaneously over a wireless network. As an added bonus, The Raspberry Pi can also provide internet access if an Ethernet cable is plugged in and allow direct HDMI connectivity to an TV.
Another quick tip takes us to a Linux (Ubuntu) based system that is not resolving hostnames even with DNS properly plugged in. You may even be able to successfully perform a NSLOOKUP against your domain controller. As usual, the right file update corrects the issue.
From my CounterStrike Global Offence setup, I realized that hosting the HLStats server online also was hosting my phpmyadmin directory as well. As exposing the database to the outside world is very undesirable, a simple change the the Apache sites-enabled directory on Ubuntu 14.04 corrected the issue.
OS X seemed to work well enough for standard use, but I had previously gotten used to Linux as my primary desktop and was beginning to miss it. I loved the footprint and the flexibility. With the updates included within the Ubuntu 14.04, enough pieces of the puzzle had been worked out. This post contains some notes on the build and links to help others.
While taking some screenshots for a previous post, I ran into some issues with capturing a screenshot of an individual window. There was several options that were available, but the standard Alt+PrtScn was not one of them.
With the CounterStrike:Global Offensive server now up and running, I wanted to see some statistics around the activity on the server. This is a post about the HLStatsX:CE plugin and the updates made to the Perl script to allow Geographical IP mapping to work properly.