System Administration
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3/6/2010 in System Administration by micah: I created this six minute video for work to demonstrate how to create a new virtual machine using VMware Server 1.0.x. It demonstrates how simple the process can be, although I also take a minute to show how I remedy a certain pet peeve that I have with the process.
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11/9/2007 in System Administration by micah: I just completed my first physical to virtual (p2v) migration of a Linux server. I used cpio, ssh and a rescue CD to migrate an aging server to VMware. Here's how I did it. (I'll try to leave out the steps that didn't work!)
We recently identified several servers that could be migrated to VMware...
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6/28/2007 in System Administration by micah: Okay, this is a silly rant, but Jason Powell said on the Church IT Discussion Podcast to just do it. Blog about something, at least once a week. So here it is...
Last night was another one of those Microsoft days. A friend of mine got one of those cool Treo 700 phones that would drive me crazy, and...
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9/27/2006 in System Administration by micah: I've become a strong advocate of VMware Server. I composed this collection of links back in June to give a coworker some background info.
It was actually a SecurityFocus editorial by Scott Granneman that got me interested in VMware: (04.12.06) Virtualization for Security. That's what prompted me to...
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9/27/2006 in System Administration by micah: I run Fedora Core on the Linux boxen I manage, and in most cases, they're configured for text-only operation. However, there are cases where running X is desirable, but usually remotely and generally not with all the bloat associated with a full desktop installation. (I've got nothing against Gnome...
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9/12/2006 in System Administration by micah: Two years ago, I worked on a family member's computer. It was so messed up that I couldn't fix it, so I reloaded Windows and started over. (This was anticipated, so they'd backed up their data ahead of time.) I saved the email that I wrote, intending to post it somewhere. Here's a copy, updated a...
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7/3/2006 in System Administration by micah: I've been reserving opinion on the whole Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage bruhaha, but I'm a little irked this morning. Working four day weeks in the summer doesn't mean I don't sometimes need access to my workstation back at the office, but Automatic Updates seems to put a kink in that plan...
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6/22/2006 in System Administration by micah: Nmap author Fyodor has compiled a list of the Top 100 Network Security Tools, as tabulated in a survey of nmap-hackers mailing list members. I remember when the previous lists were published in 2000 and 2003, and each release has led to my discovery of new tools, or reminded me that it's time to go...
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