http://www.vmcolonel.net Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:11:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My company uses Windows Terminal server extensively so most of our users connect via thin clients running Windows CE.  I am currently in the process of pointing all of our thin clients to point to a DNS name rather than an IP.  But there are still several thin clients which ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=20 After years of using Windows mobile phones I switched to an iPhone.  I got pretty to getting the iPhone's VPN to work with our Sonicwall 3500, but I ran out of patience.  According to the Sonicwall a connection was established, but the iPhone would immediately disconnect.  My patience ran out ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=19 Wow two posts in one day :) I just came across WINEXE and I am so excited I had to share.  It is basically PSEXEC for Linux.  Anyway you can get it here http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/ It gets really cool when you execute cmd on the remote machine... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=17 I recently updated the firmware on my 8525 and as a result I could no longer tether my phone and laptop. As it turns out Microsoft has switched from using DUN (dial up networking) to PAN (personal area network). There were numerous guides available but I couldn't quite ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=16 I threw together a script Set_NTP.zip this afternoon to automatically setup NTP on an ESX 3.x server. There are basically 3 ways to run it: Interactively - enter every NTP server name / IP. Semi-automatic - specify a file that has a list of NTP servers, you are shown the servers ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=13 Since my Comcrapstic Internet connection is unreliable at best, I often have to connect to the Internet by other means.  My neighbors actually lock down their access points so that usually leaves me with just my cell phone.  After many hours researching and failing, I came across this article.  Low ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=8 Recently I designed and installed the computer system in my brother's new dental office. Luckily, we came across Open Dental and decided it would be a good fit. Since the office is as paperless as possible it is important that the computer system be as reliable as possible. ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=3 I have a few days under my belt running Ubuntu and overall everything seems to be working great. I was able to get my wireless working - my router just needed to be restarted. I opted to install Thunderbird for my e-mail. At first, ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=6 Yesterday, I cleaned up my XP installation and ghosted my laptop. I will eventually create this as a virtual machine following the steps here. Anyway, I went for broke and installed Ubuntu, which is almost painfully easy to install. I have used Ubuntu as a virtual ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=5 Well I have decided it is time for me to make the switch to Linux - specifically Ubuntu. I am going to try and document the move in hopes that it may help some others out. Here's the rough plan... Clean up the existing Windows XP installation Convert current XP ... http://www.vmcolonel.net/?p=4