You've turned on SSH, and even enabled the firewall profile for SSH. But for some reason you still can't SSH into the ESXi server and get a "Connection Refused" message back when hitting port 22. You've also checked your corporate firewall and that's … [Continue reading]
Vantec NST-D100SU and 3TB drives
If you purchased your Vantec NST-D100SU drive dock some time ago, there's a good chance it won't support 3TB drives. You'll only see around 800MB of space when you plug your 3TB drive in, where 2TB drives work just fine. To fix the problem you'll … [Continue reading]
PowerCLI script for changing pathing policy en masse
Say you deploy a new SAN, and you're in the process of migrating all your VM's from the old datastores to the new. When you go to add the new datastores, ESX sets the incorrect pathing policy so now you have to go change it on each and every … [Continue reading]
Installing Dropbox on a Debian server
There are a lot of old instructions on how to install Dropbox on a headless linux server, most of them outdated. I had to recently go through this pain myself so i've compiled a set of updated instructions to make life easier for you. These were … [Continue reading]
Smelly glass tabletop
We've had the dining room set for many years now and the glass tabletop has started to smell bad, kinda like an old fish tank. Over the last few months we've tried anti-bacterial wipes, surface cleaner, and vinegar only. Nothing worked. We … [Continue reading]