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Jul 7th, 2008 by Forbes Guthrie
I have just moved my site over to it’s new home. This should allow me to add more useful services and gets rid of the old clunky site. Hopefully, it will let me post more frequently, bringing you more useful tips and real-world hands-on advice.
May 19th, 2008 by Forbes Guthrie
I’ve just uploaded version 1.2
There over a dozen corrections, updates, and a few small additions. Many thanks to everyone who has emailed me since the last release, particularly Simon Price and Peter Vroomen.
Apr 16th, 2008 by Forbes Guthrie
Here’s an old trick which works great on ESX servers (thanks to this article on Linux Journal for reminding me). It turns your prompt different colours to highlight when you are logged in as root:
To make the prompt red when you’re running as root add this to /root/.bashrc:
PS1=”\[\e[31m\]\u@\h:\w#\[\e[m\] “
To make the prompt green when running as a normal user add this to ~/.bashrc:
PS1=”\[\e[32m\]\u@\h:\w\$\[\e[m\] “
Mar 8th, 2008 by Forbes Guthrie
Here is version 1.1 in all its shining glory.
I’ve made several corrections (thanks everyone), added a few extra snippets and dusted it with a sprinkling of handy tips and tricks.
The biggest change is a small 3i section. I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it since its beta. There is quite lot of information around about 3i now, but I just wanted to add the sort of stuff people would actual use.
On a personal note, I have just got back from an OnTap foundations course, so I am try to pull together some good reading material for the NetApp NCDA. Maybe they’ll be a "vmreference OnTap card" soon:)
As ever, suggestions/advice/questions - get in touch
Feb 5th, 2008 by Forbes Guthrie
I’ve made a couple of corrections, so please go and grab the update :
