Redundant power for single power supply
Someone recently asked me how to setup redundant power for a rack of machines without relying on all the equipment to have dual power supplies.
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Setup PPTP on Ubuntu
Here is a quick howto on installing and setting up PPTP on Ubuntu. Specifically I'll be attempting to configure this machine to use the Israeli ISP 012 over a cable modem. 012 provides some sort of installation package for Linux but it doesn't support Ubuntu.
Samba Permissions and Backup Exec
I recently started using Symantec's Backup Exec for Windows to backup files from a Samba share. I joined the Samba machine to the domain and gave the backup user permissions to the share but the backup kept getting access denied errors.
Format Excel numbers as GB, MB, KB, B
Here is a great tip for formatting numbers in Excel as Gigabytes, Megabytes, Kilobytes, Bytes, etc. Use the following formula:
Cloning zones in Solaris 10 6/06
I googled for "Cloning Solaris Zones" and found lots of documentation on the zoneadm clone feature. I started to follow the howtos and hit a brick wall... my zoneadm doesn't know how to clone. Deeper digging shows that the documentation on Sun's site was for Solaris Express- Sun's bleeding edge version of OpenSolaris- Can I say "How useless!"