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ActiveDirectory authentication with SSSD / Kerberos / LDAP in CentOS 6.3

Posted on January 8, 2013

This is just a quick note: With CentOS 6.3, when configuring /etc/sssd/sssd.conf, be sure to include the following in the [domain/default] stanza: krb5_canonicalize = false The following post lead me to this solution for my issue: Problems with SSSD after Redhat 6. [Read More]

Go Daddy Down Due to Denial of Service Attack

Posted on September 10, 2012

Go Daddy was taken down by a denial of service attack. The outage was about 3-4 hours. Here is an article from The Verge . As of the time of this writing, the website is still performing poorly. [Read More]

Remove the Global Menu from Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on May 28, 2012

I do enjoy the latest Ubuntu incarnation 12.04, Precise Pangolin. However, the global menu is just something that I cannot deal with. It probably stems from my phobia of the Apple operating systems. [Read More]

Upgraded to ESXi 5.0

Posted on March 4, 2012

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&nbsp_place_holder; Made the move and upgraded my hypervisors from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 today. &nbsp_place_holder;Boot from USB still works great.

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How to make time synchronization work across virtual machine suspends.

Posted on March 2, 2012

When using Linux under VMware, a guest’s system time is affected when it is paused or suspended. &nbsp_place_holder;This is because the ntp daemon will give up when the time difference is too great. [Read More]