I’ve had DD-WRT on my home router for awhile. DD-WRT works well but I want to setup some VLANS to play with some LAB configuration and the build of DD-WRT did not have the VLAN GUI. I had no success configuring this on the command line (could totally be me). I always wanted to try OpenWRT but I have had zero success so far loading it to any hardware. I came across this video on Youtube: ...
VirtualBox is a viable LAB option for Certification study. Personally I would prefer to run Hyper-V or XENServer but those solutions are a bit resources heavy for a home LAB. VirtualBox is prefect for older aging hardware. ========= Install VirtualBox ============ On Debian Wheezy I learnt the hard way that the packages in the distro repo are dinosaurs, which I could not get to work with PHPVirtualBox. I installed VirtualBox from the Oracle repo. ...
I can’t keep up with all the passwords! There are too many passwords for me to manage, I used to find myself unable to access systems. Passwords are especially annoying on mobile devices with the tiny keyboard. I wanted a solution that works on both the Desktop and Mobile devices. Lastpass is a password management option that I have used in the past. They have a free service but you have to pay to use there mobile apps which is not bad however I never liked the user interface on their Android App. ...
Course outline for 70-410, Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012. Install Servers: Plan for a server installation; plan for server roles; plan for a server upgrade; install Server Core; optimize resource utilization by using Features on Demand; migrate roles from previous versions of Windows Server Configure servers Configure Server Core; Delegate administration; 3. Add and remove features in offline images; 4. Deploy roles on remote servers; 5. Convert Server Core to/from full GUI; 6. Configure services; 7. Configure NIC teaming ...
I am in the process of learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012. I’m a hands on learner for the most part and working with a lab environment always speeds up my learning exponentially. I have been looking for the most practical Lab options. I’m looking for flexibility, I want to be able to practice in an isolated environment at home and at work. I am amazed at the amount of Lab options that are available these days. Way back when I was pursuing Microsoft Certified System Engineer certification on Windows 2000 my lab consisted of two broken down computers. I recall that these systems even though they were less than stellar, ran Windows 2000 with Active Directory very well. These systems were AMD K6-2 (remember those?) with 64 MB of memory. ...
I’d given up on getting DD-WRT flashed on this router. With the help of one of my colleagues at work we were able to get DD-WRT flashed! Omar Davis you rock! What got it to Flash Success came with these work arounds: 1. Disable Windows firewall on the command line: netsh firewall set opmode disable 2. Using the ASUS firmware update tool you’ll have to place the .trx file on the root of the C: drive. ...
I grabbed this card from my local computer shop without doing any research. I was very excited and eager to get my home NAS up and running. I was soon disappointed after installing and configuring one hard drive. I was using freeNas then and the write speeds where terribly slow. This was one of the main reasons why I started looking for another NAS solution other than freeNAS. When I migrated to OpenMediaVault this card seemed to have much better Linux support. The I/O speeds were very decent and in spite of this this card always seemed unstable and even though I kept having unstable behavior with hard drives I never made the connection that this card was the root cause. If I had any clue that this was the case I perhaps would not have been so eager with my move to RAID and would have delayed my migration until after I had found a reliable replacement. Alas, you lose data to learn and I lost over 500GB worth of movies and tv shows. ...
I usually only connect to my wireless network at home so I usually have few problems with network-manager on Kde or Gnome. A couple of times however I have had the experience of needing to connect to an access point on the road and network manager just would not connect. I am usually able to use command line tools to connect so its been a problem I could live with however I want wireless to just work. ...