Ever run into a Windows system which won’t boot and instead just sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor forever? I have. Especially when the Windows system is a guest operating system in Microsoft Hyper-V. And frequently if that guest OS was recently converted from a VMWare Server or VMWare ESX Server vmdk […]
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Best CSS3 Button Maker: Button X
February 28th, 2012 
etdot Make great looking buttons for your website using HTML and CSS. No images necessary. With this tool you can choose color, font, site, corner roundness, etc. Once it looks the way you want it, click the button and it will generate the CSS for you to use.
Installing Ubuntu 10.10 with full disk encryption
February 17th, 2012 etdot This is the best guide I could find for setting up Ubuntu with full disk encryption. Just make sure you use the alternate CD so that you have the advanced setup options necessary to set up the encryption. Yes, it even works with the latest version, Ubuntu 11.10. The guide is very thorough, walking you […]
Unable to stop services for VMWare Server 2.0
November 14th, 2011 etdot After updating packages on my Ubuntu Server I ran into problems trying to reconfigure VMWare Server. Each time I tried I received the error: “Unable to stop services for VMware Server”. I discovered that there was a hidden flag that could be used to get past this issue. So, I ran the following and was […]
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Comments Off on Unable to stop services for VMWare Server 2.0Backup your WordPress database and files automatically
November 10th, 2011 etdot I found this great WordPress plugin today that not only allows you to easily backup both the WordPress database AND files but also lets you schedule automatic backups. In addition to that it provides many options for offline storage of the backups which would prove very useful should your web server go down. Offline storage […]