I was creating virtual guests in KVM on my Ubuntu 11 host. The problem I was experiencing was not having the ability to connect to the guest from outside the host’s console.
The guest was a Window’s Server 2008 Standard. I needed to connect to the server via RDP. Here were the two lines I ran against iptables to get it to work:
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It appears the Ubuntu is having problems with THEIR modifications to FireFox and how it handles Adobe Flash with version 11. Developers can say what they want about about Flash supporting 64 bit. The bottom line is that users are having problems with Ubuntu FireFox 11.
I do allot of work with Firefox in managing websites and overall web browsing. I also do alot of development for other software and cannot find the time right now to fix the package problems. I over came this by installing google-chrome online. The package comes ready for use with the Debian installer.
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What is nice about CentOS 6.2 is the ability to install the OS from a USB stick. Here is how I performed my installation.
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Don’t normally do this, but I was editing the menu.lst file on my Ubuntu machine and thought I would be cool and just replace some of the file names. Well, I did not fair too well. I received the infamous Grub error 15: File not found with any of my boot selections.
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There are advantages to configuring Windows Updates to automatically install on workstations. However, having Windows updates set to automatically install can be catastrophic to the organization. The default Windows Update time is 3 AM, which can cause interference with backing up data, month and year end reporting, and users working late on a project.
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I had a bit of free time, so I created this craps game for Windows. You can also run it on Linux and Unix by changing the path to where your Perl is located on the system. The application uses variable, a pre-defined array length, functions, and a do – while loop with a sentinal value to terminate the loop.
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Here is the main program:
/*This is a console application to introduction to classes. Every program requires a heading, which is below. The fields will vary according to the class or organization you are creating this program. For this class we will use temperature conversions.
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Here is a brief introduction to variable within C#. We will be using temperature conversions to demonstrate variable declaration, usage, and formatting. Simply copy and paste the code into any new Microsoft Visual C# console application and you should be good to run this application.
/*This is a console application to introduction to variables.
Every program requires a heading, which is below. The fields
will vary according to the class or organization you are
creating this program. For this class we will use temperature
conversions.
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This is not difficult to perform and can be used for Windows Servers 2003 and 2008. A reason for performing this type of restart would be to restart the server on the weekend when no one is working. Be warned: Unassisted server restarts can experience undocumented features that may facilitate the necessity to return to work during your time off.
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Here is a brief post on adding an email group to your organization in Google Applications for Education. The reason to add groups is so that multiple recipients can receive the email sent to a single address. This will guard against request not being processed when one person is out on vacation or move on to new life adventures.
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