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A collection of 6 posts

Moving and extending VirtualBox virtual machines

Moving and extending VirtualBox virtual machines

Running things on Apple hardware here, all those Windows-only software packages are a somewhat of a pain… As good as they are, both Qlik Sense, some of the vendor specific embedded software IDEs and other need-to-have software are Windows-only. VirtualBox to the rescue. It is free and works really well

Upgrading firmware on HP ProCurve 1800-24G / J9028B

A recent inventory of network switches showed that the one that is in most active use was on an outdated firmware revision. I really like the switch in question, an HP ProCurve 1800-24G, as it is fanless and thus completely silent. It’s been in 24/7 use for 5-6

Installing Debian on old ASUS motherboards

Having a couple of decommissioned ASUS motherboards (M2NPV-VM and A8N-VM CSM), as well as a 19″ cabinet with ATX cases in it, they could together be a setup for lab work, trying out Linux server stuff, as a test bed for network gear etc. Installing Linux (Debian) is usually pretty

Compiling Zabbix for small headless server

Turns out the Bubba2 (and of course Bubba3) can run latest version (2.0.2) of Zabbix quite ok, at least when only monitoring a handful of servers. I created a brief installation instruction for bubba here.

How to monitor broadband uptime

After moving to a house a few years back we ended up in a situation where ADSL was the only option (aside of mobile broadband, which is not really a realistic option if you plan to do a fair amount of computer work from home) available to us. However, the

tmux for bubba2

There are various replacements for the traditional screen command in Linux, Byobu and tmux being two good ones. Byobu is good, but after trying tmux on various Linux machines I really wanted it also on the Bubba2. As tmux doesn’t seems to be in the bubba2 or etch repositories,