If you need a whitebox build for ESXi then I have some information that might help. I got ESXi 5 up and running on the following hardware. Motherboard: ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 RAM: G.Skill Value 16GB DDR3 1333 NICs: 2 x Intel 1 x Realtek ...

Switching to Mac OS X I have noticed opening text files that were created in Windows will add spaces after every line. In TextMate you can create a macro to get rid of the extra lines very easily. In the Bundle Editor add the following command and tie it to a key combination.

A few months ago I needed to read some .DMP files and realized that I didn’t know how. I can troubleshoot fairly well and I have always figured things out without needing to go into the dump files. I knew this particular problem was hardware related but I wanted to see what the dump files had to say anyways. It seems kind of strange that Microsoft creates these files when things go bad but makes it difficult to obtain useful information from them. After some Googling I found the following, hope it helps. ...

I came across a new tool that uses node.js to test load and performance on your website or app. I haven’t researched load testing very much but this seems like the simplest way to see how your site reacts to thousands (or more) connection attempts. Check it out. Blitz.io

CentOS is not listed as a supported OS for Microsoft’s Hyper-V but I’ve found it works pretty well. Whenever I install CentOS on Hyper-V I forget the configuration file you have to create to get eth0 working. So here it is. Install CentOS. Add legacy NIC in Hyper-V settings. Create file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and input the following with your values of course. Some other commands or config files that might need to be edited. ...