1. Create the .desktop file:

   nano ~/.local/share/applications/Eclipse.desktop

   Paste this in:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Version=1.0
   Type=Application
   NoDisplay=false
   Exec=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse
   Name=Eclipse Comment=Launcher for Eclipse

   Each line is pretty self-explanatory. Edit to suit your needs. As soon as you save the file, you will be able to see your new shortcut in the list.

2. (Optional) Give the shortcut a nice-looking icon:
   You probably noticed that your icon is an ugly diamond. To pretty it up, you simply have to add one more line to the desktop file.

    Icon=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse.svg

   Your application may have included a png icon, but to make it really look nice, you should grab an SVG file of the logo from somewhere. Arch has a very simple packaging process which lets you examine all of the package building elements through their webpage at http://www.archlinux.org/packages/. I was able to grab the SVG which the package uses like this:

   wget -O eclipse.svg http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/eclipse.svg\?h\=packages/eclipse

WordPress 2.6 (released in July, 2008) and newer include the tools do do this out of the box! Using this documentation, you can get rid of some old .htaccess or nginx rewrite rules: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL.  All you have to do is add the declaration in wp-config.php:

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);

This forces logins and administrative sessions to use SSL.

Now, you can remove the old nginx rewrites. They aren’t needed anymore:

rewrite ^/wp-login.php(.*) https://www.surlyjake.com/wp-login.php$1 permanent;
rewrite ^/wp-admin(.*) https://www.surlyjake.com/wp-admin$1 permanent;

Enter Redirection. Redirection gives you a menu in the admin interface which allows you to easily create and maintain 301 and 302 redirections (among other features). Here is a screenshot of what it looks like once activated:

From the screenshot, you can see that I was able to create a simple 301 redirect from a page on my WordPress instance to an external website where the content will live from now on.  The second rule allowed me to match the URL using a regular expression and redirect it to another page on my site. This is a great piece of software.

One issue I ran into when testing the plugin was that edits I made did not seem to be taking effect. This turned out to simply be my browser caching the 301 response. I recommend that you either manually clear the cache or download the web developer toolbar and disable cache.  I should also note that my server runs nginx and not the Apache web server. I simply deleted the redirection ‘module’ for Apache which attempts to create .htaccess rules to perform the redirections. Without the Apache module, WordPress handles the redirections.

Redirection Plugin documentation: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

wbinfo -n "Domain Users"

It will spit out the SID for the Domain Users group. Something like this:

S-1-5-21-((some number))-((some number))-((some number)) Domain Group (2)

Take that number and change the Pam_winbind.so line in /etc/pam.d/common-session to look like this:

session sufficient pam_winbind.so require_membership_of=S-1-5-21-((some number))-((some number))-((some number)

To use pyinstaller:

1. grab pyinstaller 1.5rc (1.4 doesn’t work with python 2.7). extract the zip file anywhere.
2. change directories to the pyinstaller folder you just created.
3. Before you create your first executable, you will have to run this once.

python configure.py

4. Now, pyinstall needs to scan through your program and create what they call a spec file.

python makespec.py --onefile path\to\program\program.py

5. Now, run this command to generate the executable.

python build.py program\program.spec

Once the command has finished, the standalone executable will be available in the program\dist folder inside of pyinstaller.
Instructions for how to do this for a linux executable on ubuntu linux can be found here: http://excid3.com/blog/2009/12/pyinstaller-a-simple-tutorial/. You can find more info on pyinstaller at their website: http://www.pyinstaller.org/.

I have verified that this configuration works under ESXi 4.1.0, 260247 and a new Squeeze install. All of the essential functions like being able to see guest OS information on the Vsphere summary page and performing “Shut Down Guest” and “Restart Guest” all work as expected. If your experiences vary, please leave a comment

This should all be performed by the root user (otherwise prepend ‘sudo’ to the commands if you must use sudo).
The first thing you need to do is add the ‘contrib’ archive to your apt sources config:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the ‘contrib’ to the end of these source lines. I use the debian.uchicago.edu repository, so mine look like this on a new install:

deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib
deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib

After you save changes to the file, simply update your package list and perform the install:

apt-get update
apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-source

You might see an error that looks like this:

Loading open-vm-tools modules: vmhgfsFATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.
 vmmemctlFATAL: Module vmmemctl not found.
 vmsyncFATAL: Module vmsync not found.

Don’t worry, this is because we have not installed the kernel modules for some of the more advanced VMware functions like the vmhgfs file system, Memory Balloon (vmmemctl) Driver, and vmsync, which helps freeze the VM while taking snapshots.
To install these kernel modules, we’re going to use module-assistant. It will compile the modules for your kernel:

module-assistant auto-install open-vm -i

The ‘-i’ puts module assistant into non-interactive mode. It wont ask you to confirm any additional package installs necesarry to set up the build environment.
If you’re running a server without a Graphical environment, you’re finished. If you want features such as automatically adjusting the VM’s monitor resolution or allowing your mouse to seamlessly move between your host system and the VM, you need to install one more package:

apt-get install open-vm-toolbox

Now you won’t need to use CTRL+ALT to switch back and forth.

# tar -C /root -zxvf /media/cdrom0/VMwareTools-8.3.2-257589.tar.gz

This will redirect the extracted files into the /root folder. simple

apt-get install brasero-cdrkit

Now, .ISO (ISO9960) will be an available disk format for you under Brasero.

channel unacceptable
487 / Request Terminated
480 / Temporarily Not Available

Not particularly helpful information. After all the packet sniffing and diagnostic checks, it appeared packets were being rewritten or dropped between the endpoint and our VCS. The culprit here is Juniper’s ‘ALG’ for SIP and H323 traffic. I don’t have the time not to figure out exactly why or how it was breaking my calls, but i do know that in my case, it wasn’t needed. Disable the SIP and H323 ALG’s (in the SRX web UI under Configure -> security -> ALG. The endpoints will start working again after your reboot them and allow them to re-register to your gatekeeper.

More reading:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos-security/junos-security95/junos-security-swconfig-security/id-79332.html#id-79332

Windows:
This server seemed to want the license file specified. You may need to launch the lmtools GUI tool and watch the status bar for the path to it. This is what mine looked like:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a

That will spit out the current license usage for all your products. To isolate the numbers we want to monitor, we will be piping the output into some other commands like find and cut.
I recommend using the GNU tools for windows http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. These examples use the built-in ‘find’ utility, and a ‘cut.exe’ tool i found googling around. I had overlooked the gnutools when I first set this up. My mistake can be your gain. With gnutools, it will be easy to isolate the output you want using ‘grep’ and ‘cut’. First, isolate the line you are looking for with grep. You will have to figure out what feature code you want to monitor. mine looks like this:

Windows:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:"

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO

now that you have the right line,  you can trim the extra characters with ‘cut’. It will take some experimentation to get it right.:

Windows:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:" | cut -c 62-64

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO | cut -c 59-61

The output now should be only the number of licenses being used.

To allow zabbix to monitor this value, we need to create a ‘UserParameter’ read up on it here: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/user_parameters. This is what the parameter looks like on my servers:

Windows:

UserParameter=licenses.autocad.used,"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:" | cut -c 62-64

Linux:

UserParameter=licenses.arcinfo.used,/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO | cut -c 59-61

Once you have the userparameter created on the license server, restart the agent and add an item in zabbix to begin collecting values.