So this time (to the nearest minute) 25 years ago I was born.
One quater of a century motherfuckers!
Install ESXi to a USB
This has been covered in other places.
- Grab ESXi 4.1 Installable Update 1 (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update1-348481.x86_64.iso) from VMWare.com and unpack the contents (I used winrar)
- Once it’s extracted open imagedd.bz2 and extract imagedd
- Open up WinImage and go to Disk -> Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive. Select the drive you want to install ESXi to and browse to where you extracted imagedd to.
- Select imagedd and WinImage should “burn” the image to your usb drive. This process may fail with a access/sharing violation. Make sure you’ve not got the drive open in windows explorer.
unlock multiple active directory users that are listed in a CSV file using VB script:
dim fs,objTextFile
set fs=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
dim arrStr
set objTextFile = fs.OpenTextFile(“users.csv”)
Do while NOT objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
arrStr = split(objTextFile.ReadLine,”\n”)
For Each user in arrStr
WScript.echo(“Unlocking ” & user)
Set objUser = GetObject(“LDAP://cn=” & user & “,ou=Users,dc=domainname”)
objUser.IsAccountLocked = False
objUser.SetInfo
Next
Loop
objTextFile.Close
set objTextFile = Nothing
set fs = Nothing
“Oh well atleast sex is free, I used to take ecstasy but now my petrol tanks on E.”
So 2010…
Blew a blood vessel in my eye.
Went to amsterdam.
Spent 25 weeks on call (50/2).
The year of MCAAAAAAAAAAAT.
Still haven’t become certified in anything.
Nearly died a few times.
Broke my toes.
Replaced the head gasket on a Saxo.
Bought a new car and sold a Saxo for £50
Involved in a car crash.
Grew a moustache.
Called an ambulance for a guy with a tracheotomy (wtf?).
SNOOOOOOOOOW
Grew some massive marrows.
Went to the dogs.
This week I bought a HP ML110 to use as a ESX box but the DVD drive isn’t supported. It boots ok from the drive but when it comes to installing the base packages Weasel (ESX installer) is unable to find any drives with suitable packages. The error message I got at boot time was “No Install CD Found”. I got around this by booting from the DVD drive and then using a cheap SATA to USB converter:
- Create a FAT32 partition (best keep it < 30GB). Assign it a drive letter
- Open the VSphere ISO file and copy everything to the FAT32 partition.
- Plug the SATA to USB converter into the ESX box and press rescan on the installer. Go for a brew and you’ll have a ESX box in no time.
Want to get quake 3 to run on win7 but it’s moaning about opengl not being installed?
Open baseq3\q3config.cfg and set r_mode to 6 (should be on line 198)
Set windows compatability to Vista and you should be ready to go go go
