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“IT Junk”

I Clustered My Proxmox Home Lab: Tips, Tricks, and the CLI Commands that were useful

Clustering three Proxmox home lab nodes: emptying nodes to join, VM ID clashes, quorum and corosync, shared storage, and CLI commands that fixed it.

Building a Proxmox Home Lab: Lessons from Years of Breaking Things

What I learned (and broke) building my Proxmox home lab: budget hardware, used drives, checksums that lied, and an old NAS stuck on SMB1.

Acer C7 Mostly Working Virtual Box 4.1.12 in Chrubuntu 12.04

Trying to get Virtual Box 4.1.12 from the software center is not a basic download and run.  You can download it, you can run it but when you try to start a machine you create it crashes… always. *PLEASE NOTE* This instruction set is for educational purposes only.  If you follow these instructions and something bad happens […]

Chromebook C-7 Running Ubuntu 12.04

I finally got my hands on a Chromebook in November of 2012.  I enjoyed the idea of a quick simple PC and wanted to get one for myself so I did.  I purchased an Acer C7 Chromebook.  But not just to run ChromeOS, I wanted it to be a multi-boot machine so I could do […]

Fun with Virtualbox and Error with 64bit Hardware Acceleration on Lenovo T420

So I was having some fun installing Virtual box on my Backtrack 5 R3 install on a new SSD that I am running for a laptop of mine and found an interesting error. error: “VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not […]

Getting Virtualbox running on Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome

For fun (and obvious reasons, to take snapshots), I wanted to run VirtualBox on my Backtrack 5 R3 64-bit GNOME setup.  I did the standard looking for it by doing: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0, and getting an error was kind of what I thought I would get. Google being my friend (or […]

Magic Box IP Subnetting

So, during a random discussion whilst I played Call of Duty: Black Ops, it was about IP subnetting and the CCNA test.  So IP subnetting, basic base-2 math, is actually very simple to accomplish.  The tough part is trying to QUICKLY attain this information while testing. I was taken aback when I was asked how […]

Cool new program for M$ PC Mouse sharing / File copy

So I read an article about a new project called Mouse without Borders on LifeHacker. I’ve been using Synergy for years, and at home I mainly have a multi-OS setup, so it works great for switching between computers there. At work, we are pretty much a Windows shop, so having this mouse sharing WITH clipboard […]

Busted Capacitors

Random IT stuff So I was asked by a co-worker to take a look at his PC and why it was randomly not booting / sometimes not getting to the BIOS, and I told him it is most likely hardware-related.  He was hoping his drive was OK for getting files off it, but my suspicion […]