Jan 14, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Installing BackupPC

This post is how I was able to install BackupPC on my Ubuntu 10.04 server and backup Windows/Linux/Mac clients using rsync and ssh. Client Setup (Windows 7/Vista/XP) These instructions are written for Windows 7, Vista, or XP clients. For the SSH portion we will be using CopSSH which is a customized packaged version of the Cygwin openssh code. Rsyncd will be used as the communication for BackupPC to do... read more

Jan 13, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Installing FreeNAS 0.8 on Oracle VirtualBox 4.1

As part of creating a Windows 2008 R2 cluster there is a requirement to have iSCSI storage or block storage for the Quorum and other shared storage for the cluster. An easy and affordable way to achieve this is FreeNAS. To keep my development cluster all virtual I found the need to create a FreeNAS instance. In this post I will attempt to share how I was able to achieve the desired results. The... read more

Jan 13, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Enable Virtualization on Dell Optiplex 755 to run Oracle VirtualBox 4

Recently I ran into an issue when working on creating a test cluster environment for Windows 2008 R2 with Oracle VirtualBox running on Fedora 16 64 bit on a Dell Optiplex 755. The issue was VirtualBox would complain about VT-x/AMD-V not being enabled and would stop the VM from loading. After doing some digging around found that there is a specific setting in the BIOS to enable what is needed to enable the... read more

Jan 8, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Silicondust HDHomeRun Dual

As a longtime TV card / capture user I am always looking for new products that are easy to use and work well on many OS’s. One that I have wanted to try is Silicondust’s HDHomeRun series. After much reading I decided on HDHomeRun Dual. According to SiliconDust the HDHomeRun is a TV tuner for computers – Ethernet attached. Once connected to your home router you can access the HDHomeRun Tuners... read more

Jan 4, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Disable Guest Logins for Alfresco 3.4 Community Edition

Recently after installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d found that guests could login by default to the site. Since the site was put up for documentation with restricted access, this was an issue, but only for a short time. Edit the <installation_directory>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties file and add the line alfresco.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false and save the file.... read more