BMW e46 Service Manual

The “BMW e46 3-series Service Manual (1999-2005)” has been removed on request from Bentley Publishers.

Remove unused kernels

Remove all kernels but the latest For regular Debian/Ubuntu, type: for kernel in $(cd /boot; ls -1cr vmlinuz-* | head -n -1 | cut -f2,3 -d’-‘); do sudo apt-get remove -y $(dpkg -l | egrep “^ii linux-image-$kernel” | awk ‘{print $2}’); done If you are using ProxMox, type: for kernel in $(cd /boot; ls -1cr … [Read more…]

VNC Viewer built into OS X

Have you ever searched for a VNC viewer app for OSX? I have, and the ones I found were not very good. It turns out there’s a built in VNC viewer in OS X (since version 10.4), used for OS X’s own screen sharing. How cool is that? I found the information about it here.

Introduction to Puppet

I have written this introduction to Puppet because I needed to explain how Puppet works. I will try to update it with more information when I have time. I strongly suggest that you read the official Puppet documentation to learn about the language syntax, which is something I don’t explain at all. For people that … [Read more…]

PowerDNS Admin v. 0.3.5

I have updated my PowerDNS Admin tool. The update mainly includes small changes to the UI to support mobile devices better, and includes more informative error messages. PowerDNS_Admin-0.3.5

Updating VMware ESXi from the CLI

Upload patches/bundles (a ZIP file named something like ESXi500-201109001.zip) to a datastore visible to the ESXi server that you want to update. Not all bundles requires the server to be in maintenance mode, but some do. I recommend that you migrate any running machines away and enter maintenance mode. Now SSH into you’re ESXi server … [Read more…]

Enable SNMP on VMware

Login to your VMware server through SSH and backup the existing configuration file: cp /etc/vmware/snmp.xml /etc/vmware/snmp.xml.org Edit the snmp configuration file and set enable to true and communities to public or the community name you want to use: vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml Then restart the SNMP service /sbin/services.sh restart.

Dell service tag from within Windows

If you need to lookup a service tag for a Dell server running Windows, it is possible as shown below; C:\Users\Administrator>wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber IdentifyingNumber Name Vendor 2B7115J PowerEdge R610 Dell Inc.

ZFS Log and Cache on sliced disks

Having two SSD disks in a FreeNAS (w. ZFS) storage system, I wanted to test log and cache. To avoid using 120GB SSD for the log-device (which only needs 1-2GB) I decided to slice the disks, and use the rest for l2arch cache. First, let’s partition the two disks (ad14 + ad15 in my case): … [Read more…]