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VMWare Perl SDK on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS)
I have recently found interest in a system called OpenQRM to manage Virtual Machines / Appliances, as well as Cloud Machines (Public / Private). One of the plugins bundled with OpenQRM allows you to manage VMWare ESX Servers. It will scan the network and auto-discover VMWare Servers, However unless you install the VMWare Perl SDK…
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From Russia with Love?!
When I was very young, Russia was this “grey” and “evil” entity. Having lived in countries mainly under the influence of the west, this is no surprise. The impression was that the government is not very good for the people, as in, not very democratic. However this is my third or fourth time to Russia,…
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R.I.P: Mogul (My good old MacBook Pro)
Last week “Mogul”, my trusty old Macbook Pro Unibody (circa 2008, basically the first model that came out) has decided to die a sudden death. 30 minutes before its sudden departure from this world, it helped me locate the address of a local motel where I then spent the night mourning its loss. When you…
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Stay away from UltraHosting
Today I have been burned with UltraHosting. They want me to pay $75 just to boot a rescue CD on my machine which failed to boot a new kernel, around 24 hours ago (it has failed, because they initially set only 46mb to my /boot/ partition, which is not enough for modern kernels). So basically,…
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RabbitMQ for Beginners
Or shall we call this “The missing beginner walkthrough”? Another name I liked and saw on the web was “The Attention Deficit Disorder Guide to …” 🙂 In this short post, I describe how to get RabbitMQ up and running very quickly, on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. Although this will probably apply to other operating systems,…