Another thing you will notice if you are used to debian is that RHEL has iptables enabled by default. To alter it you use the 'iptables' command. It is quite complex and there are good guides out there. If you just want to let http and ssh through you can …

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

Hi! If your webhost is running in php safemode then you may run into some issues, for example you cannot do the upgrade of WP automagically via the admin interface and neither can you upgrade plugins manually, which is a hazzle. To do the upgrade follow this guide: http://codex …

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …

As I will soon be getting some income again, we thought this might be a good time to get a video game console. We do like the look of PS3 (Gran Turismo 5, NHL, etc). A bit pricey though. And then there's also all this negative news I keep on …

PuTTY is a terminal client, it does telnet, raw, serial, ssh, rlogin. I've only ever used telnet, raw, serial and ssh. The normal client can be downloaded from http://www.putty.nl But, maybe you want to make PuTTY prettier? Like this?: putty pretty Well, there are a couple of …

Time for another go! Drupal is .. a pretty famous and widely used CMS out there - so here we go -> 1. Get sudo configured on debian. Sucks to have to log on as root all the time when installing apps etc. 2. Download and untar drupal 7 3. Read INSTALL.TXT …

How small VM can you make if you are only going to use it to run Irssi in a screen? OS: Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Virtual Kernel Hypervisor: VMWare Workstation Disk - no logs - 1.10GB is what my previous took, with samba, so probably less but 1.1 should be …

Figured I would give this a shot and see how this is done in Linux. Overview 1x Ubuntu 10.10 VM in VMWare Workstation. Installed with virtual kernel. 1x Windows 7 VM. All updates. Not going to go through the installations in this post, just the domain/LDAP part. See …