Use kerberos ticket to mount CIFS shares on a Linux server. You do not need to know the password for the account, nor have the password stored in a file. Create the keytab file for the account my-account, this step…
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Change the IP address of a Windows servers with VMware PowerCLI script
VMware vSphere PowerCLI script to change the IP addresses of Windows servers. $TranscriptFile = “.\change-ip-2.txt” #Stop-Transcript Start-Transcript -Path $TranscriptFile $windowsID = “administrator” $windowsPassword = “MyPassword” Function Set-WinVMIP ($VM, $IP, $SNM, $gateway){ $nics = Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface -VM $VM -GuestUser $windowsID -GuestPassword $windowsPassword…
Find VMware Guests with Raw Physical Disks
VMware vSphere PowerCLI script to find all guests that have RDMs or raw physical disks. $Servers=”vcenter1″ Connect-VIServer $Servers $vms = get-cluster | get-vm Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType “RawPhysical”,”RawVirtual” | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName | out-gridview -PassThru | Export-Csv -Path .\vm-with-rdm.csv
VMware PowerCLI script to list snapshots older than specific days
A VMware vSphere PowerCLI script to find and email a list of all VMware guests that have snapshot older than 3 days. # List all VM with snapshots # Run as scheduled task with a user with rights to view…
Configure VMware Datastore Multipath Policy by Disk Type
Here is a VMware vSphere PowerClI script that will find all datastores that are of the model Hitachi – Open-V, set the multipath policy to RoundRobin if it is anything else. $clustername = ‘clustersomething’ $datastore = get-datastore # Find datastores…
Got my site added to DMOZ
Yahoo, it only took four to five tries over a span of four years to get Games Cheat successfully added to DMOZ. I last submitted my site to DMOZ about 5 months ago and forgot about it. I was pleasantly…
Garmin Nuvi 760 gps got me lost in New York state – Part 1
I bought the Garmin 760 gps from my local Costco last summer. I used it on many trips across Ontario and it had always been very reliable. The GPS had been so accurate that I decided to throw away my…
Google street view captures burning van in Toronto, Ontario.
Google street view finally launched in Canada few weeks ago. I had sighted the streetview camera car on Highway 407 some months before and trailed it. Here is the link to photos of the streetview car, http://www.gamescheat.ca/2009/06/google-maps-street-view-car-in-toronto-ontario/. The Google street…
Some TV channels may not work with the Rogers digital receiver.
I moved into my new home about 3 months ago. Well, actually it is a 23 years old house with finished basement. Overall the house was in good condition, but it was in need of many minor repairs. Being the…
Dell launches Lattitide Z laptop with wireless charging technology
Dell is launching a new laptop Lattitude Z which is capable of charging the battery wirelessly. All you have to do is to place the laptop on top of the charging dock and the battery charges through induction. This means…