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Going on a trip

Philip Morrison — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:16:29 +0000

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…

MAC OSX 10.5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Philip Morrison — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:36:40 +0000

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

Macbook remote DVD sharing

Philip Morrison — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:28:22 +0000

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 MacBooks I just entered the two terminal commands and rebooted.
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true

ESX STIG Update

Philip Morrison — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:05:48 +0000

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.

Sorry about that

Philip Morrison — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:24:03 +0000

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

Forcing a VM to Power Off instead of Shutdown

Philip Morrison — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:46:24 +0000

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 →

vSphere within a VM and memory issues

Philip Morrison — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:58:53 +0000

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/

Virtualizing ESX4

Philip Morrison — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:39:06 +0000

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 vSphere lab…

http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/

WordPress Permalinks and GoDaddy

Philip Morrison — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:21:08 +0000

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 for the backend to catch up. Not sure what the wait is for but it worked.

Permalinks got all jacked up

Philip Morrison — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:44:42 +0000

Trying to fix so please bear with me.