Close

Monthly Archives: August 2010

VMware Ubuntu Guest Add Harddrive without Rebooting

Four steps to add a new hard-disk to a running Ubuntu virtualized session, using Vmware. Add the new hard-disk to the Ubuntu vmware image using Vsphere or VMWare Server. Ssh into ubuntu session and run “echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/NUMBER/scan” NUMBER is the scsi host value.  It will not hurt […]

Read More

Ubuntu Vmware Server Guest Slow Network Speeds

I recently setup a test VMWare server environment on my Windows 7 workstation to run Ubuntu LAMP development environments that mirror my production environments. After I install an Ubuntu (or any Nix) environment, I typically install Samba services so I can easily copy code/images back and forth from my workstation […]

Read More

Defense and Open Source Article

Great article from Wired discussing the increased use of Open Source technologies within the defense industry. I think its a perfect match. The example in the article mentioned that an entire project failed because a single contractor controlled the system. Seems that an open-source (albeit defense internal) project would have […]

Read More