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  • Installing Windows Server 2022 on Intel NUC lab computers

    Installing Windows Server 2022 on Intel NUC lab computers

    This content is 3 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Microsoft have quietly slipped out Windows Server 2022 and eager beavers are already starting to install it in their labs. I’ve got it running on Intel NUCs but these…

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  • Getting started with OpenStack in your lab

    This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Having recently finished building my new home lab I wanted to put the second server to good use by installing OpenStack (the first is running VMware ESXi 5.0 with…

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  • HOWTO: Set up OpenVPN in a VPS

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.If, like me, you want to do any or all of the following things, you’ll want to tunnel your traffic over a VPN to a remote location: Access media…

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  • Installing VMware tools in Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So like me you’ve been hanging out for another Long Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu release and having arrived last month (8.04) you’ve got it up and running in VMware…

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  • SSHKeychain 0.8.2 Post Install Problem on Leopard

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It seems SSHKeychain breaks on (recent?) Leopard builds because it wants to find a group for each user (eg samj:samj): #!/bin/sh chown -R $USER:$USER “$2/SSHKeychain.app” #chown root:admin “$2/SSHKeychain.app/Contents/Resources/TunnelRunner” #chmod…

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  • Google Apps – On in 60 seconds

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.To celebrate today’s Google Apps launch here’s a screencast I whipped up showing just how easy it is with Google Apps to get ‘On in 60 seconds’: Update: On advice…

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  • Compiling bash-3.0 on Interix

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So you’ve followed my instructions for updating config.guess for Interix 5.2 (the version shipping with Windows 2003 Server R2) and now you want to compile something. Interix ships with…

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  • Compiling on Interix 5.2 (Windows 2003 Server R2 SUA)

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The soon-to-be-released Windows 2003 Server R2 includes features that were previously shipped as Services for Unix (SFU) – perhaps the most interesting of which is Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications…

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