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Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Manager: “Host not responding”
Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Manager, or VMM, is a slick piece of tech that smoothly enables users to control virtual machines spread out across multiple hosts, including, of course, localhost. But what happens when VMM reports “Host not responding”, even for … Continue reading
Well, that was rough
Just upgraded my VPS server. Unfortunately, it wasn’t smooth, not by a long shot. The usual do-release-upgrade got me into quite the pickle, trying to take my out-dated Ubuntu 9.04 server to Ubuntu 9.10. I think a big part of … Continue reading
Someday…
While skimming through Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.2 help file, I came across this in bold red text: Note: This feature is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Instead of importing servers, you should create a … Continue reading
Strange Difference Between Debian and Ubuntu
While setting up my file server, I encountered an odd difference in what I was seeing on my Ubuntu server, versus what I was told works perfectly on Debian. Specifically, on the latter, you can mount –bind a directory and … Continue reading
Oh software RAID, how I love you!
Recently, my file server suffered a hard drive failure. Fortunately, as was the primary purpose of said file server, I had backups and thus lost no data. But, instead of simply replacing the failed disk, I’m taking the opportunity to … Continue reading
