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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.

New Hosting Provider

Philip Morrison — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:59:24 +0000

If you can see this then my move to Godaddy.com worked! John needed to shut down the 1and1 server since there were only two servers on it (one of which was mine)… And I must say, the folks at Godaddy.com … Continue reading →

Mmmm snow

Philip Morrison — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:39:58 +0000

Mmmm snow

Originally uploaded by Phil Morrison

Not too cold… But there is snow on the ground

RIP Rick

Philip Morrison — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:51:44 +0000

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422764,00.html

Wow… Pink Floyd fans all over the world will be mourning this week.