Author Archives: Philip Morrison

Going on a trip

I might not be around for a while as I am not sure how much internet there is on the north pole…. If you have letters for Santa let me know as I might be able to hand deliver them…

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MAC OSX 10.5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

I’m having some fun securing my macbook pro… I’m not sure I want to remove the .kext files for my camera and microphone though…. http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/downloads/zip/unclassified_mac_osx_10-5_v1r1_stig.zip

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Macbook remote DVD sharing

OK so I found this site: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/265078_how-to-really-enable-dvd-drive-sharing-on-a-non-air-macbook And just skipped down to the part about terminal. I have two macbooks with broken DVD drives and needed to have them install software from my MacBook Pro DVD drive. So from the … Continue reading

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Getting mac mail, ical and address book to talk to Exchange 2003

Edit: I am adding some additional steps here to help some folks get over the downloading and configuring of DavMail. Step 1, download Davmail: http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files/ the latest version will be under davmail (not davmail trunk or davmail beta) As of … Continue reading

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ESX STIG Update

Look for some major updates soon on the ESX_SRRSecure.sh soon. My colleague informed me that he is doing an overhaul on the script and updating it along the way.

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Sorry about that

Didn’t realize the website was down. Godaddy got it working pronto!

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Forcing a VM to Power Off instead of Shutdown

Found this on the ‘net.. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/128527 In VMware Fusion (Mac) hold the ‘option’ key down before you click on Virtual Machine and you will see ‘Power Off’ instead of ‘Shutdown Guest’… Comes in handy when you have a Windows box … Continue reading

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vSphere within a VM and memory issues

I quickly ran out of memory so I found this article…. http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/05/08/running-vsphere-within-workstation-will-take-up-a-lot-of-memory/

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Virtualizing ESX4

I found this blog posting while creating my new development environmnet so that I can start working on an updated ESX_SRRSecure script for vSphere and thought it might be usefull to others without an extra set of servers for a … Continue reading

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WordPress Permalinks and GoDaddy

I was kicking myself trying to get the permalinks fixed and what do you know, someone already had this issue with WordPress and Godaddy.com http://www.queenofkludge.com/wordpress-permalinks-godaddy-htaccess-file-patience-required/ The short answer is:Set your permalinks in the settings/permalinks page and then wait an hour … Continue reading

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