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Category Archives: General
Goodbye MediaPortal, Hello XBMC!
It’s been a few years since I first dedicated a computer to be hooked up to my TV. The ideal, a nice pretty interface to access my digital content from. I’ve used MythTV, Freevo, my XBox 360 via TVersity, and … Continue reading
Suddenly can’t login to OpenSolaris 2009.06 CIFS share
I woke up this morning and couldn’t get onto my CIFS share. A quick look at /var/adm/messages and I saw this problem: Jun 15 23:10:10 zed idmap[346]: [ID 702911 auth.notice] GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more … Continue reading
Migrating to an OpenSolaris Fileserver
After getting replacements for my failed drives, I tackled migrating data off my old Windows 2003 fileserver onto my fancy OpenSolaris ZFS fileserver. My windows server decided this was the time it was going to become corrupt too. I was … Continue reading
OpenSolaris on Gigabyte GA-P965-S3
Now that I have a new box to run ESXi, I’ve repurposing my GA-P965-S3 based system for OpenSolaris. I had a lot of trouble getting this to work. I was initially using OpenSolaris 2008.11. I could get it installed. Reboot, … Continue reading
VMWare ESXi: GA-P965-S3 and Supermicro AS-1021M-T2+B
I have now built a couple ESXi machines at home and it can be tough finding hardware that you know is going to work with ESXi. I thought I would contribute a couple working configurations. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 rev 1.0 … Continue reading
Expand your virtual machine’s boot drive
A cool use of (the free program) VMWare converter* is to increase the drive size of the windows boot drive (C:). Increasing the size of a separate disk in vmware isn’t too hard. One simple way is to attach a … Continue reading
Powershell: Invoke-Expression and Tee-Object
So in my previous post I wrote about how I got around a problem with some standard error from Perforce. I want to take my work around function and pipe it into Tee-object so I can simultaneously display and log … Continue reading
Weird Powershell Standard Error Behavior
Ok I’m baffled. I am working on the previously mentioned powershell perforce backup script. I intentionally corrupted one of my database files to make sure I’m correctly catching the error. This ran me into a brick wall with trying to … Continue reading
Robocopy hates it when you end with a slash!
Robocopy is a pretty good utility for copyin/mirroring directories in windows. I use it a lot. I just spent a bit of time thinking powershell hated robocopy because I was having a lot of trouble calling a robocopy against a … Continue reading
PowerShell V1 doesn’t like to exit assignment functions
I was working on a fancy backup script for Perforce written in Powershell and I’ve definitely come across a bug in PowerShell V1. Take a look at this: function Usage() { write-host "Hey fool, you need to pass 1 paramter … Continue reading