Installing Fedora 16 on XenServer 6

Credit for this procedure goes to Major Hayden at Racker Hacker (http://rackerhacker.com/2012/02/11/installing-fedora-16-in-xenserver/). My procedure just uses an alternate,minimal kickstart file that gives you more control over the installation using the Anaconda GUI.

- Start an installation using the RedHat 6.0 64bit template –In the installation wizard,use these advanced options:console=hvc0 serial ip=dhcp [...]

Cisco ASDM-IDM Launcher:Stuck on “Contacting the device. Please wait…”

I recently ran into an issue on Windows 7 64-bit where ADSM-ISM Launcher failed to connect to my ASAs. Launching the application from a shortcut,and attempting to connect resulted in the launcher halting on “Contacting the device. Please wait…”. And waiting didn’t help. Opening the java console revealed another error which didn’t get me [...]

Forcing RDP Connections Fullscreen on a Specific Monitor

One of the frustrations I have/had with Remote Desktop connections on multi-monitor workstations (with unique display resolutions mind you) is that there’s no way within the RDP GUI to save the position of a fullscreen RDP session. So if your RDP session opens up on display 2 each time,good luck getting it to display [...]

Authenticating to MS SQL Server on a Different Domain Using Windows Authentication (Windows 7)

When trying to connect to an MSSQL server on another domain (of which you are not a member),you’ll probably run into the issue where selecting the Windows Authentication option in the SQL Server connection dialog grays out the username and password. Here are two workarounds:

Scenario SQL Server:sqlserver.mydomain.com Domain:MYDOMAIN MYDOMAIN Username:joe.user

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Overcoming the the Zyploit error when using Unrevoked

If when your try rooting your phone with Unrevoked,you encounter the error “process com.unrevoked.zysploit has stopped unexpectedly”during the initial rooting process,you probably have an application interfering with Zysploit,or a bad install of Zysploit itself. Try removing the following apps (from Manage Applications”) in order,and retry between apps:–Zyploit –[...]

My Struggle with Android:Stock or Mod?

Since about November of last year,I’ve been running an HTC Evo 4G. I had to leave the WebOS platform due to ongoing (and persisting) uncertainty surrounding it’s future viability in a quickly firming iOS/Android market plurality. I’ve enjoyed a number of features from Android and it’s apps,even though I miss a large number [...]

Disabling the ”Security Code”feature of PHP-Nuke

Run the following commands:

cd /www/docs/mydomain.com/ grep -R “extension_loaded(“gd”)”* | awk -F”:”‘{print $1}’| sort | uniq

Wait at least 30 seconds. It’s searching all the files in this directory. Each of the files returned will contain the string ‘extension_loaded(“gd”)’,which must be replaced with “0″to make those IF statments [...]

HowTo Set Up PHP Nuke (a quick guide)

This is more of a technical FYI,not really a practical guide for Linuxwhore.com server users:-). Well,actually,I suppose everything except for the mysql commands could be performed by users,the rest needs to be granted by root.

   mkdir phpnuke    cd phpnuke/    tar -zxvf [...]