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My Thunderbird Extensions

Just a reminder for myself:

With last Skype4Py Arek changed a bit the logging. To enable it now you need to put the following in your script:

import logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

Today I got some hint how to implement joining public chats via API in linux Skype.
Continue reading “Linux Skype: Participate in Pulic Chats”

on a plain Lenny with Grub as Boot Manager (Lilo doesn’t work with xen 🙁 ):

Recently I wondered which hardware I am using in a remote root server. A friend of mine came up with the following command:

dmidecode

This even works on ESX 3.5 Hosts. You see really detailled which hardware is in the box.

esxcfg-info -n | less

NIC Teaming for Cisco Switches:

vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/net/vswitch_setpolicy --nicteaming-policy=loadbalance_ip vSwitch1

Add nic to Team:
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch1

Today I had the problem of displaying the version of the interpreter in a perl and a python script.

After installation of VMware ESX 3.5 on a SunFire X2100 the machine always faulted with a root-fs error.

Looking at the VMware forums, I found a post by rpartmann who provides a script to solve this issue[1].

With the help of his script I found the relevant steps to fix this issue for me:

Then I could start without problem on my nVidia SATA chipset.

You might need to do the same procedure after an update of VMware. Haven’t been there so far.

This helps a lot:

exim4 -d+route -bt [email-address]