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Archive for December, 2008

Merry Christmas

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in General, Linux | 1 Comment »

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firmware without the floppy

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 8 Comments »

In recent years I've been able to rid myself of floppy drives entirely.  The problem that I run into however is that occasionally my beloved hardware manufacturers still ship firmware or bios updates on a floppy for some insane reason. Luckily ...

vmware esxi and ssl

Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

For those of you using the free version of VMWare's ESXi, you may have noticed that it generates a self-signed local cert. If you want to use your own ssl certificates, you can simply follow these quick steps. Enable SSH in ...