http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com My personal - but public - knowledge base Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/links/bookmarks-for-september-3-2009-through-september-8-2009 http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/links/bookmarks-for-september-3-2009-through-september-8-2009#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:06:25 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=604 Links for September 3, 2009 through September 8, 2009:

• Open Source Monitoring – Icinga – Nagios fork.
• connectbot – Project Hosting on Google Code – "ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone."
• Bug 228108 – mptscsi adds DID_BUS_BUSY host status when scsi status of BUSY is returned – Serious, possibly unfixed (as of 9/6/2009, despited "closed" status) bug in RHEL causing kernel panics on VMware ESX VMs.
• About « IUS Community Project – Rackspace's "IUS Community Packages offer the latest upstream stable versions of software built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
• Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors – Website traffic visualization tool.
• NetApp – Storage Nuts & Bolts: SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure 2.0 – Preview of SMVI 2.0.
• Identity Mapping Administration (Tasks) – Solaris CIFS Administration Guide – "This chapter describes the identity mapping service that maps Windows security identifiers (SIDs) to Solaris user identifiers (UIDs) and group identifiers (GIDs). The chapter also includes instructions on how to manage name-based mappings."
• secrets-for-android – Project Hosting on Google Code – "Secrets for Android is an application to securely store and manage passwords and secrets on your Android phone."

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• NetApp Technology Network: Exchange 2003 volumes with SnapManager… – Forum post on SME best practices.
• Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere® 4.0 – "This book, Performance Best Practices for VMware® vSphere 4.0, provides a list of performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware® vSphere 4.0. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring your deployments."
• VSP1CLN Command-Line Options – "The Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Files Removal Tool (VSP1CLN.exe) can be used to remove the files that are archived after Windows Vista SP1 is applied. Running this tool is optional."
• Ask the Core Team : What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large? – Explanation for large size, and continued growth of WINSXS component store directory.
• body.tex – Less known Solaris Features – wikis.sun.com – Joerg Moellenkamp's Less Known Solaris Features on Sun's wiki site.
• Installing FFMpeg on CentOS/RedHat 5.x successfully | TheNitai – "Please follow the below steps one by one to install FFMpeg on CentOS/RedHat 5.x. successfully. Some of these libraries might be older (some even from 2008), thought I used what worked best for me and were stable in production environment."
• vsphere-migration-prerequisites-checklist.pdf (application/pdf Object) – "This Upgrade Prerequisites Checklist document describes the requirements and prerequisites necessary to begin planning for the upgrade of an existing VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4."
• Gallery2:Installation Requirements – Gallery Codex – "Gallery has certain technical requirements that must be met (i.e. installed and/or configured) on your server before you attempt to install it."
• Gallery2:FAQ – Gallery Codex – "How can I move my gallery installation from one server to another?"
• Gallery2:Multisite – Gallery Codex – "How to change a Multisite Gallery into a Standalone"
• Windows File Services Best Practices with NetApp Storage Systems – "This document describes the Windows® File Services best practices and recommendations for using a NetApp storage system in a Windows file sharing environment. It also provides basic guidelines to build a storage infrastructure for Windows File Services. It describes the typical deployment-related best practices used by system administrators and architects for integration with Microsoft® Active Directory® and services, securing and optimizing NetApp® storage systems using CIFS or SMB 2.0 protocol. The scope of this guide is limited to Data ONTAP® 7G releases."
• live-android – Google Code – Android LiveCD x86 build.
• Virtu-Al » PowerCLI: Daily Report – VMware PowerCLI Daily Report script for VMware infrastructure.

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