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Racenumber 1617

Racenumber 1617 150 150 Roderick Derks

A historical moment. I received my first Marmotte racenumber: 1617. And a lovely number it is. 

La Marmotte 2007

La Marmotte 2007

La Marmotte 2007 87 100 Roderick Derks

Today I registered myself as a contestant for the 2007 La Marmotte Grand Trophee cycling contest in the French Alps.…

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Move a VM from VMware Server to ESX or ESXi

Move a VM from VMware Server to ESX or ESXi 150 150 Roderick Derks

Objective: Move a VM from VMware Server to ESX or ESXi Prequisits: root access via ssh to the ESXi or…

Boot VMware ESXi 4.0 4.1 from a USB Flash Drive

Boot VMware ESXi 4.0 4.1 from a USB Flash Drive 150 150 Roderick Derks

Tools required to do the job: At least 1G USB flash drive Virtual CD mounting tool, i.e. MagicDisk WinImage to…

Extending the Net-SNMP agent

Extending the Net-SNMP agent 150 150 Roderick Derks

Extending the Net-SNMP agent A great functionnality of Net-SNMP is that you can “extend” it. Let’s run the /tmp/foo.sh script…

Create a windows service from an executable

Create a windows service from an executable 150 150 Roderick Derks

Prequisitsw2003 resourcekit tools installed Install the serviceC:\>sc.exe create T3NawUp dateService binPath= “C:\Program Files\Infotrom\Trodis3\MT\Binaries\T3NawUpdateService.exe – /L2” obj= “elisabeth\sa_trodis” password= “paszzworrd”[SC] CreateService…

Nokia 6021 Beach Rally 2 topscores

Nokia 6021 Beach Rally 2 topscores 150 150 Roderick Derks

Belangrijke levensvraagstukken: Beach Rally topscore op de Nokia 6021.. kan het beter dan dit? Ik denk het wel maar ben…

Connecting to SMB share on W2K or W2K3 using a CNAME

Connecting to SMB share on W2K or W2K3 using a CNAME 150 150 Roderick Derks

Apply the following registry change to the file server to which you installed the hotfix. To do so: a. Start…

Disk performance and Backup to NUL: command

Disk performance and Backup to NUL: command 150 150 Roderick Derks

Introduction   Disk drive performance and databases are directly tied to each other with backups. A full backup, by definition,…

Disk Queue Length vs. Disk Latency Times: Which is Best for Measuring Database Performance

Disk Queue Length vs. Disk Latency Times: Which is Best for Measuring Database Performance 150 150 Roderick Derks

Introduction   There are several common metrics that people use to look for performance bottlenecks. They are usually:   –Disk…

Nagios Install on Fedora 7

Nagios Install on Fedora 7 150 150 Roderick Derks

yum -y update vi /etc/inittabshutdown -r 0 yum -y install gcc perl-Config-IniFiles net-snmp net-snmp-perl net-snmp-utils perl-Net-SNMP net-snmp-libs gd gd-devel libpng…

Centreon and Nagios Install Guide

Centreon and Nagios Install Guide 150 150 Roderick Derks

Centos 5.5 add repo to get RedHat packages echo "[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el\$releasever/en/\$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1…

HPUX Veritas Netbackup

HPUX Veritas Netbackup 150 150 Roderick Derks

1         Inleiding   Klein beetje uitleg over commando’s en configuratie instellingen (hoofdlettergevoelig!).       2         Config   ELITIL2 :…

vmware esx commands

vmware esx commands 150 150 Roderick Derks

Connect a virtual switch to an adapter:# esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic2 vSwitch0

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