Frequently you want to set the color balance for an image in Gimp but don’t want to do it manually. Fortunately it’s easy with Gimp using the eye dropper. Just select “Color | Levels” from the Gimp menu and you … Continue reading
I have running VMware ESXi servers for years, sometimes at work on servers but recently at home on a whole bunch of older desktop machines. Not too many problems and when I did have problems it was usually about an … Continue reading
I need to run some scripts every night to move some files around in OMV. I want something that simple and easy to maintain and more or less stock standard. There are probably many variations on how this could be … Continue reading
I had a working Open Media Vault system with notifications going out and then it stopped. OMV runs on Debian. In the log I started seeing: The actual error was: postfix/error[1443]: 1D96741676: to=<joe.blogs@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=175894, delays=175853/41/0/0.24, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (delivery temporarily … Continue reading
I have a SonicWALL TZ 205w sitting behind my fibre connection with my web server running on an ESXi server connected to the SonicWALL via a VLAN to isolate it from my LAN. This has proved to be a bit … Continue reading
I have an ESX server on my LAN and I want to connect it to the DMZ on my SonicWALL using a VLAN as the ESX server only has one network adaptor. The SonicWALL is a TZ 205w which is … Continue reading
We recently got fibre to our house using Spark as the ISP and of course Chorus as the installer. The fibre terminates in the house at the ONT, optical network terminal. The ONT has an Ethernet RJ-45 socket that you connect … Continue reading
I have a couple of ESXi servers at home that I boot from USB keys – see the post Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key. The problem is that using a USB imaging tool doesn’t seem to work. When I … Continue reading
This is just a short post describing how you can USB boot from a Debian Live USB key and from this enable SSH access to the box. I do this often and it can be quite handy. First create the … Continue reading
I have been trying to add a single mirrored disk to Open Media Vault and been getting: In my case the new disk was created using a Debian live USB disk. I think this was the problem. So I booted … Continue reading