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Disable ipv6 on CentOS 6

February 28, 2013

With several late CentOS 6.2 systems being built on the network I have been running into network disconnect and performance issues being caused by IPV6. Since I am currently not...

IPtables: open port for specific IP

February 26, 2013

Command and Syntax There seems to be a lot of confusion with this, so I'm going to make this quick any easy. IPtables is a stateful firewall tht is both powerful...

Recover vmx from log file

February 15, 2013

Recover vmx from log file On the VMware community forums, Eric Tung has devised a little jewel of code that automates recreating a vmx file from a recent vmware.log file. This is...

Starting a virtual machine generates a syntax error

December 3, 2012

Starting a virtual machine generates a syntax error Details The virtual machine fails to power on. The .vmx file contains garbled data or is zero bytes long or is corrupted. You see the error:"<VM_Name>.vmx" line <x>:...

Rebuild the Outlook for Mac 2011 database to resolve problems

November 7, 2012

How to rebuild your identity database Step 1: Quit all applications You must quit all applications before you continue with the following steps. To quit an application, click the <application name>menu on the...

How to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in CentOS

October 12, 2012

How to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in CentOS I will demonstrate the installation of the latest Nvidia driver on my LG RD510 laptop that runs a 64-bit edition of CentOS 6.0 and, as it...