CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
Well, it’s been almost a year since I reviewed Veeam Endpoint Backup… Here’s what I have learned. Veeam Endpoint Backup has a serious issue. I was using it on a Windows 7 PC and it was always running without error. I tried to upgrade the PC to Windows 8 and it failed miserably. No […]
Had a few cases where different programmers would create a CentOS 7 Virtual Machine [VM] on their workstations and we then need to turn them into production VMs on our VMware Cluster. They would send me the OVF, and we can import them into VMware ESXi cluster. Trouble was, the SCSI Controller was LSI Logic […]
I’m a big Fedora Core fan… I use it as my main PC at home [everything else is a VM on VMware somewhere]. After the upgrade from FC 24 to FC25, I could not VNC into my Linux box. I got a Grey or Blank screen. I found the issue after much research. I […]
This is a minor review of Veeam’s new Endpoint Backup from my testing/usage. I’ve almost always used Windows Backup for all my Windows Servers [2003, 2008 R2, 2012 R2] backups. The best thing about Windows Backup is you have to create the recovery DVD [yes, but it’s reliable and works!] along with giving the […]
[UPDATE: As of March 2019, this also works for ATT / NiTel setups] I had to deal with a most interesting network issue with Comcast Business Fiber. Comcast Business Fiber and Metro Ethernet both use an interesting way to get the static IPs to the customer. In my example, the LAN will be 10.1.1.x/24, Comcast […]
Ran into an interesting problem. Samsung VOIP phones, for example the SMT-i5210, have a PNP [Plug In Play] mode. If DHCP is setup with the correct optional parameters, you can have the phone pick up the Samsung phone system’s IP address from the DHCP parameters. Samsung calls this “PnP use for IP AOM registration”. […]
It has now been 60+ days of using Barracuda Spam Filtering. We were testing and using the Virtual Machine version, v300. As I said the my 30 days of Barracuda Spam Filtering, installation was fairly straight forward. Now that a few of our more critical domains here at NetworkX [aka CarlC Internet Services] are […]
First, I did NOT pick Barracuda by default. I’ve been using Open Source versions of software to remove and prevent spam from hitting our email servers for years now. I was given a 30 day free trial for my company, NetworkX, to test with. Loading the product… Now, lets start with some good news. […]
Well, I can’t blame VMware, the new version of conversion tools will not convert Windows 2000 to a VM correctly. Instead of fighting with that, I found a simpler way to do this. The Windows 2000 server I was virtualizing is of the 32 bit variety and had a USB port on it. So, […]
A while back, I was really happy with Sonicwall, and really excited when DELL bought them. I had high hopes for Sonicwall in that just maybe, JUST MAYBE, Sonicwall support would get much better. After all, they DO charge for it. So, for the last few months [starting end of November 2013], I had […]