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HotPatch 2 Groupwise 8 and HotPatch 3 for Groupwise 7

Today I noticed that Novell has release HotPatch 2 for Groupwise 8. If you look on download.novell.com you will see a explication mark behind the patch, indicating there is a security issue. If you look in the readme of Groupwise 8 in the security second it will say: Novell GroupWise WebAccess is vulnerable to weaknesses […]

Wednesday June 24th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

UMTS USB Dongle in OpenSuse 11.1

Lately I ordered a UMTS usb dongle from KPN for my OpenSuse 11.1 notebook. As you all probely know, for Microsoft you just plug the USB stick in and maybe you have to install some additional software and it works. With Linux this is different. In OpenSuse 11.1 we can use NetworkManager to connect to […]

Wednesday June 24th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Performance CIFS/NCP on Windows 7

Last week I got a email from Alex Peeters. A couple of months ago he followed the N3089 who I gave. Alex did some testing with CIFS and NCP performance on Windows 7 what is quite interesting. I’m glad that I can publish his results. Nice job Alex, keep up the good work! From Alex: […]

Monday June 22nd, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

How to change the Hostname in OpenSuse 11.1?

In previous versions changing the hostname was simple. You just went into Yast | Network Devices | Network Settings. There you had a tab called DNS/Hostname and there you could change the hostname and domain name. By default networkmanager is enabled in OpenSuse, so when you go into Yast you will get a messages saying […]

Thursday June 18th, 2009 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Installating vSphere ESXi on a USB stick

Like most of you I’m running ESXi on my server at home because the license is free. I’m just a one person company so I don’t have the money (or want to spend it on other stuff) for vSphere ESX. For my tests vSphere ESXi is enough. As could could read in previous posts, my […]

Tuesday June 16th, 2009 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »