http://forums.whatpulse.org/showthread.php?t=5014 - Get it while it’s hot!  Read More →

I’ve had my share of battles with corrupt vmdk files, after the process of removing a snapshot crashed. Finally, I found a way to recover them through a VCB utility. Here’s the log that usually presents itself: May 12 01:43:13.593: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode May 12 01:43:13.593: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK : “/vmfs/volumes/49dc603e-af139aaa-7131-002219b6f201/VM1/VM1.vmdk” : failed to open (Device or resource busy). May 12 01:43:13.593:... more

Incase you don’t have the luxury of PHP5’s filter_ functions, this is a handy regexp: function validate_ipv6($ip) { $hex = ‘[A-Fa-f0-9]‘; $h16 = “{$hex}{1,4}”; $dec_octet = ‘(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]d|1dd|[1-9]d|[0-9])’; $ipv4 = “$dec_octet\.$dec_octet\.$dec_octet\.$dec_octet”; $ls32 = “(?:$h16:$h16|$ipv4)”; $ipv6 = “(?:(?:{$IPv4address})|(?:”. “(?:$h16:){6}$ls32″ . “|::(?:$h16:){5}$ls32″... more

Yes, you read right. Instead of using this domain just for email and my servers, I am going to use this site. Probaly just going to be handy articles (for myself), backend scripts, pictures and some time-wasting games. I have too many separate systems (dns, backups, monitoring, etc), of which I was sick of a week ago. It’s a wonderful mesh of it all.  Read More →

If your replay window size has not been set to a number that is high enough for the number of packets received, you will receive a system message such as the following: *Nov 17 19:27:32.279: %CRYPTO-4-PKT_REPLAY_ERR: decrypt: replay check failed connection id=xxx To prevent this error, you can do following: rtr(config)# crypto ipsec security-association replay window-size 1024  Read More →

Leopard’s rtsol clients seems broken. Thanks to Wiedi, I managed to create this patch: more  Read More →