vmware esxi – install from a USB drive
after accidentally ordering a dell poweredge r510 server without a cdrom i was desperate to install vmware esxi 4, a bit of googling found:
Procedure:
1. Format USB drive with FAT32 (I needed a 512MB USB drive formated FAT to get it to work on 1 server)
2. Extract VMware iso to USB drive
3. Extract Syslinux onto C: drive
4. Navigate to syslinux-3.72\win32 and run the following command
syslinux.exe -s -m -f -a e: (e: was my usb drive)
5. This will create a file called ldlinux.sys (hidden file so you need to view hidden to see it)
6. Navigate to the USB drive and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. You do not need to change anything in this file. The config file boots the mboot.c32 kernel that is included with the esxi install.
7. Make sure your server is set to boot from USB and you are good to go.
extract email addresses from ms word document [pc only]
i was looking for something to extract email addresses from a text file – as in someone forwarded me an email with many addresses in the To: field – so with this you just copy & paste the original message into a word file, save, extract, export CSV and you’re done.
http://www.getfreefile.com/mailhunt.html
http://www.getfreefile.com/mailhunt.html
phpmyadmin with lighttpd on ubuntu
original reference: http://www.krizka.net/2008/02/05/how-to-quickly-install-lighttpd-mysql-and-php5-on-ubuntu/
Just execute the following commands as root (access can be gained through sudo /bin/bash)
sudo aptitude install lighttpd mysql-client mysql-server php5-mysql php5-cgi phpmyadmin
sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi userdir
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
That is it, you now have a fully functional web development environment (well, not including the editor) right on your Ubuntu installation. You can access your webpage through http://localhost or http://localhost/~user for contents of user’s public_html file. Also phpMyAdmin, a great web based manger for MySQL databases is accessible through http://localhost/phpmyadmin
ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade on a dell latitude x1
from: http://quefyx.com/2009/05/26/upgrading-ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-to-9-10-karmic-on-eee-pc-seashell/
Make sure the APT repository is updated:
sudo apt-get update
Make sure Update Manager is installed and up to date (which it should be):
sudo apt-get install update-manager
Now run the Update Manager from Terminal:
sudo update-manager -d
You will see an option “New distribution release ‘9.10′ is available”. Click the Upgrade button to upgrade and follow the prompts to upgrade your distribution.