February 12, 2010

Opensource Firewall

Here, I will try to have a list of the main (free and opensource) firewall systems that any one can you, in general they are all the same, but there is few differences that me and defently many others like to know.

I will try to update the table below with the newest data and features, if any one want to help me, then you are more than welcome :-)

Smoothwall 3 SP1 IPCop 1.4.21 pfSense 1.2.3 m0n0wall 1.3
System Linux Linux FreeBSD FreeBSD
Multi LAN Yes Yes - -
Multi WAN No No - -
VPN Server No Yes - -
Web GUI Yes Yes - -

January 17, 2010

Installing VMware vCenter on Windows 2008 R2

Hello,

I have to say that VMware could do better installation process, but ….

I have Windows 2008 R2 with MSSQL Server (64bit) already installed (will not use use the MSSQL that comes with the vCenter installation)

any way, Windows 2008 R2 is 64Bit only there is no 32Bit, here is what I found and it may help!

  1. you need to make sure that the server name is no longer than 15 character.
  2. Make sure the service SQL Server Agent is running, check that it is set to Automatic Startup type.
  3. you must create a DSN (vCenter requires 32Bit System DSN) so that means you need to use the Native Client (MSSQL 2008) ODBC Driver (c:\Windows\SysWOW64\sqlncli10.dll)  by running %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe then create a DSN unde System DSN.

Sofar the installation went OK, but I did not test all the functions and made sure that it works without problems!
did any one else face the same need to the steps above?

December 28, 2009

Apple’s New Gadget!

There is a strong roamer that Apple will introduce a Tablet or a Touch Screen Mac, I think it will happen, and there is enough evidence suggest such move, but how it will be, how it will work, that is the question.

April 7, 2008

The illusion of Windows 7 in 2009 !!!

I saw allot of tech new web sites posting about Microsoft probably releasing Windows 7

January 4, 2008

Clone VMware with a command line

Here is a simple way to clone or copy a machine, you can do that by copying the Virtual Hard disk drive (*.vmdk) file.

by using the command  vmkfstools -i "SOURCEDISKIMAGE.vmdk" "TARGETDISKIMAGE.vmdk"

another example: vmkfstools –i /pathtoTemplateVM/template.vmdk /pathtoDestinationVM/newvm.vmdk

November 6, 2007

Roberto Preatoni WabiSabiLabi founder arrested in Italy!

Charges against Preatoni involve spying scandal at Telecom Italia!

A founder of security start-up WabiSabiLabi Ltd. was among those arrested by Milan police in connection with an ongoing spying scandal at Telecom Italia, according to published reports.

Add, Remove, or Edit Saved Passwords on Windows XP

I saw this on a website, I find it very useful for managing you passwords for accessing network shares.

November 4, 2007

How to integrate Google Maps into a web page

Google made a very nice API to enable people integrate Google Maps into their web pages with allot of options very easily. I’ll show some simple example but you need to understand few things:

June 16, 2007

Mysterious origins of man

On Sunday February 25th 1996, NBC broadcast “The Mysterious Origins of Man” (hereafter MOM), narrated by Charlton Heston, purporting to be a documentary about scientific evidence that would overturn currently accepted views of human history and evolution.