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		<title>VMware Consolidated Backup and TRANSPORT_MODE=&#8221;hotadd&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the title says, I&#8217;ve been playing with vCB (inside a VM) and the TSM integration with newer (&#62;6.0) clients for work. Result of all this work should be a feasibility study. We&#8217;re currently thinking about replacing our VMware server(s) with ESXi. But as most of you know, if you install ESXi, you simply can&#8217;t <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/03/18/vmware-consolidated-backup-and-transport_modehotadd/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/03/18/vmware-consolidated-backup-and-transport_modehotadd/</link>
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		<title>Windows Server 2003: taskmgr giving &#8220;Logon failure&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had myself a lot of fun today. I ended up patching a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP1, where the Task Manager wouldn&#8217;t start anymore. It simply failed (or in case of right clicking on the task bar wouldn&#8217;t even appear), so I went downstairs and pulled a hard disk out of the RAID1 array, <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/25/windows-server-2003-taskmgr-giving-logon-failure/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/25/windows-server-2003-taskmgr-giving-logon-failure/</link>
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		<title>VMware vSphere: Safely remove network controller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s another day another fight. As we started migrating our VM&#8217;s from the old VMware ESX farms to the new environment, and upgraded the hardware suddenly the network devices were hot-plug-able, thus they did turn up in the &#8220;Safely Remove&#8221; dialog.
I myself don&#8217;t have any trouble with that. The trouble I do have is <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/19/vmware-vsphere-safely-remove-network-controller/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/19/vmware-vsphere-safely-remove-network-controller/</link>
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		<title>VBscript: Query remote OS and SP info (continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After some more crunching on my VBscript, I think I finally have a working script that runs through a csv-list I point it to and walk onto each system (by ip-address only sadly) and query the os and the Service Pack that is installed. The CSV may look like this:

Hostname;IP;Model;Description;OS;Service-Pack;BL;Priority
epimetheus;10.0.0.2;VMware guest;File-Server
hades;10.0.0.1;VMware guest;Core-Router

After saving that one, <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/15/vbscript-query-remote-os-and-sp-info-continued/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/15/vbscript-query-remote-os-and-sp-info-continued/</link>
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		<title>Converting TIVSM RPMs to deb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We received a preinstalled customer server the other day, for which we had declared &#8220;as-is&#8221; support only, since it is running Lucid Lynx. Now today, I started getting the TSM client to work. Was kinda weird, since at first dsmc was reporting something like this:
# ./dsmc: no such file or directory
After fiddling with it a <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/15/converting-tivsm-rpms-to-deb/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/15/converting-tivsm-rpms-to-deb/</link>
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		<title>Flying home with GermanWings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I had this epiphany to fly home for a visit on my mothers birthday. Well, the idea was great but the implementation kinda sucks.
I started my trip around 12am from work to Stuttgart. Initially I had much more fear of the trip down to Stuttgart, since I have to drive on the A8 <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/14/flying-home-with-germanwings/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/14/flying-home-with-germanwings/</link>
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		<title>VBscript: Query remote OS and SP info</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote on Thursday, I am battling with Windows Server 2003. Now I got a list out of our change management database, which sadly ain&#8217;t that accurate. So in order to get reliable information about the target systems (in order to do some accurate planning), I ended up writing a small vbscript which simply <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/12/vbscript-query-remote-os-and-sp-info/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/12/vbscript-query-remote-os-and-sp-info/</link>
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		<title>Windows Server 2003 SP1, WSUS and Security Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we found some systems (sadly, customer systems) that  weren&#8217;t getting any Security Updates anymore. Much more sadly, them is running Windows Server 2003, and as you know Security Updates are pretty important for Windows Systems.
At the time of finding this, I had no clue as to why the were not getting any updates. At <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/11/windows-server-2003-sp1-wsus-and-security-updates/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/02/11/windows-server-2003-sp1-wsus-and-security-updates/</link>
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		<title>Samsung NC10 Anynet (HAT2DE), Ubuntu Karmic Koala and UMTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My little brother bought himself this fancy netbook (it&#8217;s okay I guess, only the keyboard takes getting used to). A few days after he bought it, he told me he wanted something different on it than the shipped Windows XP.
At first, I favored a normal Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop. While thats okay, it simply isn&#8217;t the <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/07/samsung-nc10-anynet-hat2de-ubuntu-karmic-koala-and-umts/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/07/samsung-nc10-anynet-hat2de-ubuntu-karmic-koala-and-umts/</link>
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		<title>VMware Data Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tinkering with VMware&#8217;s Data Recovery for the last two weeks (as in configured it some time before Christmas) and had it running all that time. I have to say the integration into the vCenter Client GUI is amazing, I&#8217;d love to see that for VCB also. The Changed Block Tracking is a neat <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/05/vmware-data-recovery/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/05/vmware-data-recovery/</link>
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		<title>HOWTO: Installing XBMC on a Acer Revo R3600 with Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday out of a sudden, the sound on my Acer Revo stopped working. Don&#8217;t ask me why, I didn&#8217;t update anything in between New Years eve and today. Just no sound. Tried removing my .asoundrc, tried rebooting, tried powering off; but nothing worked.
Since the Revo was running Jaunty Jackalope, I decided to reinstall the box <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/02/howto-installing-xbmc-on-a-acer-revo-r3600-with-ubuntu-jauntykarmic/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2010/01/02/howto-installing-xbmc-on-a-acer-revo-r3600-with-ubuntu-jauntykarmic/</link>
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		<title>VCP410 exam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been learning for my VCP-410 exam the last week or so, and what can I say ? It helped &#8230; 463 points of a total of 500 points ain&#8217;t that bad at all (considering I spend twenty minutes doing it).
Sure, I could have spent more time, and do better than 92,6%, but then again: <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/12/24/vcp410-exam/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/12/24/vcp410-exam/</link>
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		<title>Monitoring Brocade FC switches with SNMP/Nagios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I looked into the mess a bit more, and as it turns out, the weird crap I was talking about only happens if you have a port with LossofSynchronization, LossofSignal or LinkFailures value with the base of ten (i.e. 10, 101 or 10.000).
Additionally, the OID&#8217;s for those three failure elements seem to be dependent on <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/12/21/monitoring-brocade-fc-switches-with-snmpnagios/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/12/21/monitoring-brocade-fc-switches-with-snmpnagios/</link>
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		<title>Monitoring Brocade FC switches with Nagios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last four days I spent looking for ways on monitoring a Brocade Fibrechannel switch (in my case IBM 2145 B32/F40). The first thing I came up with, is using SNMP. As it was already configured for the previous monitoring with Munin, getting information should be quite easy. After looking through Google for a bit, <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/23/monitoring-brocade-fc-switches-with-nagios/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/23/monitoring-brocade-fc-switches-with-nagios/</link>
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		<title>PXEBoot the VMware ESXi installer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know, that VMware released vSphere 4.0 Update 1 yesterday. I took this as a reason, to finally wrap my head around booting the VMware ESXi installer from my PXE/TFTP box. Since VMware was kind enough to provide (a somewhat worthless) document, that explains how to extract the necessary files on Windows. <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/20/pxeboot-the-vmware-esxi-installer/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/20/pxeboot-the-vmware-esxi-installer/</link>
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		<title>Custom Keymap.xml with XBMC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you intend to use a custom Keymap.xml with XBMC you might need to be aware of a change that recently happened. Up till now the Keymap.xml was placed in ~/.xbmc/keymaps. Recently (not exactly sure, which svn revision it changed) although it changed.
Since r21442 (that&#8217;s after the current 9.04.1 release), the default keymapping files are <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/15/custom-keymap-xml-with-xbmc/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/15/custom-keymap-xml-with-xbmc/</link>
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		<title>Linksys WUSB600N on Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I recently moved, I also needed to make a few changes to my home setup. Up till now, I always had a wall or a border where I could hide the CAT5/CAT6 cable for my boxen. But my new flat has doors everywhere. So I decided to buy two Linksys WUSB600N for my XBMC-box <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/15/linksys-wusb600n-on-ubuntu/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/15/linksys-wusb600n-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Configuring nagios-plugins-zypper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m running check_zypper via nrpe (which in turn runs as nobody), I need to set up sudo. In order for the plugin to work, we need to add the following line to /etc/sudoers (by means of visudo):

nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/zypper sl, /usr/bin/zypper --non-interactive --no-gpg-checks --terse list-updates

(Keep in mind this needs to be a <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/12/configuring-nagios-plugins-zypper/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/12/configuring-nagios-plugins-zypper/</link>
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		<title>Linux: Convert Gigabyte into Blocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just googled again for a Gigabyte to Blocks converter when I stumbled upon this:

echo &#34;(15*1024*1024*1024)/512&#34; &#124; bc

Easy to use and yet handy.
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		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/11/02/linux-convert-gigabyte-into-blocks/</link>
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		<title>SVC: Migrate VDisks off a MDisk Group onto another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of necessity, another SVC shell script was just born. If you ever need to migrate a whole MDisk group onto another, you quickly discover the limited application of the SVC GUI. Now, you could query the VDisks using your original MDisk Group and then copy and paste the VDisk&#8217;s name (or the VDisk ID) <a href="http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/10/29/svc-migrate-vdisks-off-a-mdisk-group-onto-another/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.barfoo.org/2009/10/29/svc-migrate-vdisks-off-a-mdisk-group-onto-another/</link>
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