A miscellaneous collection of tech notes, how to's, cheat sheets, hints and tips and resources which don't fall into any other category.

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Introduction to Virtualisation

When starting off in virtualisation you can use products such as MS Virtual server or VMware workstation/server.

Less is More, or is it Most?

The standard pager in Solaris is more, the standard pager in Linux is less, so is less more or most

End of an Era

With sadness yesterday saw Sun Microsystems becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle.

SSH Cheat Sheet

This post provides me with a reminder of the syntax for the most useful SSH features I use whist auditing systems.

2 Security tweaks to enhance Webmin

Out of the box webmin works great, with these two tweaks we can enhance the security of this web-based sysadmin tool.

How to reset a lost Webmin password

If you've lost your admin password to access webmin, then use the 'changepass.pl' utility to simply reset your webmin password.

Cluster Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet contains common commands and resources for Sun Cluster, Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, Redhat-HA and HP ServiceGuard cluster environments.