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Accessing VMWare Server 2 with vSphere Client (the unsupported way)

June 20, 2013

As many of you already discovered there's no official Linux client for accessing VMWare Server 2.x, the only thing VMWare suggests you to do is to use internal web interface based on...

Sync contacts with your iOS device

June 17, 2013

Sync contacts with your iOS device To sync your Google contacts with your Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), we recommend using CardDAV, which is an Internet open standard. When...

Adding per user backup and restore

June 17, 2013

Since I got a rousing response of 1 inquiry to my post about adding per-user backup to this script, I thought I'd just go ahead and post it. Here are the...

Mysql Crash Recovery

June 1, 2013

Mysql Crash Recovery In the event of database corruption it may be necessary to manually perform database recovery. See Bug 15797 for an example of an issue with mysql that will require database...

Fixing a corrupted Zimbra database

May 31, 2013

I recently received an administrative email from my Zimbra mail server informing me that I had some corrupted tables in the MySQL database. I confirmed this by logging into my Zimbra...

How to speed my too-slow ssh login?

May 31, 2013

When I’m trying to ssh to a remote server, after I enter the username, it takes a lot of time before it displays the password prompt. Basically, my SSH (...