You're running a site behind Akamai, but can't see the real client's IP address, only that of your load balancer and/or Akamai's IP addresses. Therefore you can't act on it, ban IP's....etc. Akamai does pass the true IP address of clients, but not … [Continue reading]
The one thing that will save the most battery
There are a lot of ways to get more battery time out of your iPhone. Turn off Airdrop, Bluetooth, Location services, Background App Refresh, so on and so on. While they do work, they don’t make a significant difference. The single most thing that … [Continue reading]
P2V old linux distributions with VMware Converter
Just the other day, I had the "privilege" of P2V'ing some really old CentOS 3.7 and 3.8 physical servers. The process certainly had it's challenges. Here is how I did it. Very old distributions of Linux will not support any of the virtual SCSI … [Continue reading]
Setting up OverPlay in Viscosity
This article will cover how you go about plugging the OverPlay VPN service into Viscosity, for which there are no instructions on how to do anywhere on the net. If you have questions about what OverPlay or Viscosity is, then this article is not … [Continue reading]
Unable to update iLO3 firmware on HP BL465c G7 blades
We've recently needed to upgrade the OA firmware on our HP C7000 blade enclosures to support Gen8 blades. A pre-requisite is to first make sure the ROM/BIOS and iLO firmware is up to a certain level. While attempting to upgrade iLO on the HP … [Continue reading]