Upgraded to ESXi 5.0
Posted on map[Count:March 4, 2012]
![vmware](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gNCF7ZJ1s-E/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAB
I/xDyBKgk8yig/s200-c-k/photo.jpg)
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 _place_holder; Made the move and upgraded my hypervisors from ESXi 4.1 to
ESXi 5.0 today.  _place_holder;Boot from USB still works great.
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How to make time synchronization work across virtual machine suspends.
Posted on map[Count:March 2, 2012]
When using Linux under VMware, a guest’s system time is affected when it is paused or suspended.  _place_holder;This is because the ntp daemon will give up when the time difference is too great.
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Theme
Posted on map[Count:February 4, 2012]
One of these days, I will replace this theme…
Upgrading WCM software.
Posted on map[Count:December 2, 2011]
(Last modified on map[Count:December 3, 2011])
I am upgrading the website this evening.  _place_holder;After the
upgrades, I am going to leave things in a temporary theme for a while. Sorry
for the mess.
Workstation Tools List
Posted on map[Count:November 25, 2011]
I recently took to the streets as part of the annual Black Friday ritual.  _place_holder;As I was perusing one of the big box electronics stores, I ran across an HP laptop with a core i7 processor, a 9-cell battery, and a 17.
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Overcoming SELinux when changing the default MySQL data directory
Posted on map[Count:November 20, 2011]
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This evening, I chose to install MySQL 5.5 instead of accepting the 5.1 version that _place_holder;shipped with my CentOS 6  _place_holder;Linux distribution.  _place_holder;After dutifully downloading the binaries and successfully installing the RPMs, I received the following error message when starting mysqld:
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Goodbye, Ollie
Posted on map[Count:November 3, 2011]
(Last modified on map[Count:December 2, 2011])
Rest in peace Olivia Kennedy a.k.a Ollie.![Ollie](http://www.blairkennedy.com
/files/Ollie_thumb.jpg)
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 _place_holder; 1997 - 2011
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Linux Software RAID-1 Rebuild
Posted on map[Count:July 12, 2011]
(Last modified on map[Count:July 13, 2011])
![Hard Drive](http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/adding-a-hard- disk-1-1.jpg)Well, I have just received the RMA replacement of my failed Samsung HD204UI 2TB drive. _place_holder; Now it is time to put the drive back into my Linux server and rebuild the RAID-1 (mirror) array so that the data resumes its _place_holder;highly-available state.
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Samba Issue, Culprit is Windows 7 HomeGroup
Posted on map[Count:July 7, 2011]
Well, I have finally taken a few minutes out of a weekend to track downthe cause of an annoyance lingering in the syslog of my NAS server. A file server where I host both NFS and SMB/CIFS resources.
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Site Moved
Posted on map[Count:February 24, 2011]
I have just finished moving the site to a new hosting location.
 _place_holder;Still working through minor adjustments.
 _place_holder;Things like re-establishing my theme are high on the
priority list.