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…module compilation process. Seriously, folks. I know there are others of you out there, like me, who upgraded to Opensuse 11.2 (the latest at the time of this writing), without concern that VMware Server 2.0.2 (also the latest at this…
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(This article was updated for technical accuracy, and tested, 20100109. I’ve been chasing packages, across URLs, across the ‘Net… Ugh… ) My previous iFolder-related cheat-sheets here on this blog have been reasonably popular (see the ifolder3 category for reference). I…
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UPDATE, early/mid 2010: The majority of this post is mostly useless, except for history’s sake. It was originally written before 11.2 even was released, and the process still works, but… The Opensuse crew and the community put together a nice…
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I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode. For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as…
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While working with a customer today, we were solving some silly problems that cropped up while patching his OES2sp1 Linux servers. Some nonsense about Mozilla dependencies on 64-bit servers (see Novell TID 7004278 for details on that). But that’s not…
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As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users. But for some reason, I always forget one particular step. And I figured that if I…
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Update, 20091023: Please see post http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=314 for more updated information… back to the original post… I got this question the other day from Steve: I use “rug up” to update all of my SLES/OES2 servers and it works great when…
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I got this question from my good friend Matt the other day (edited for brevity): I was just thinking about taking an old box or two […] and use it as a thin client to connect to […] Microsoft Terminal…
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I got a note from Dave, asking how he could set up tftp quickly on CentOS (His happens to be 5.3, but this process should be pretty much the same on a handful of versions and distros), and get a…
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