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Upgrade Vmware Horizon View 5.3 to 6.0

A little while back VMware released Horizon View 6.0, which comes with some neat new features, from which I think the RDS Hosted Apps is the biggest, for more information see VMware Horizon 6 What’s New on Ivo Beerens blog.

Nutanix Protection Domains Migration With Vmware Vds Fails

Nutanix has this great feature of protection domains and remote sites, which makes it possible to create snapshots of virtual machines and copy these to an other site. This also gives the great possibility to do a failover of VM’s to another site without having to use VMware SRM.

Synology Fileshare Behind a Reverse Proxy

I can imagine that it is a very common scenario, you want to share files, which are located on a Synology NAS and don’t want to open up all the ports on your firewall.

Make Your Garmin Bundled Map Available Without Device

It was a busy year, finishing my master and exploring a new hobby mountainbiking. For this hobby I also bought a Garmin Edge 810 with the navigation bundle (City Navigator), wonderful device and with my early findings also a great map, when planning routes it takes into account which roads are allowed for bikes and more importantly which aren’t.

Monitoring Your X86 Synology With Monit

First of all, I’m not very familiar with Monit at all, but I was looking for a simple monitoring solution which monitors, alerts and eventually can restart a service if it fails.

Vmware Esxi Determine Which Usb to Pass Through

VMWare supports multiple ways to pass through an USB device to a virtual machine; USB Pass through, this connects the virtual machine to an USB device VMDirectPath, this connects the whole USB Bus to your virtual machine (also called PCI Passthrough) Both methods are easy to configure and there are plenty of tutorials and howto’s to find on the Internet.

Building an Awesome Led Cube 8x8x8

It has been a long time since I posted something really “techie” out here. In the mean time I was however busy with a very technical project at least is was for me.

Sparkleshare Free Opensource Alternative for Dropbox

For a while now I’m looking for a good n-way sync tool, which I can run on my own storage. I used Unison for a while, but while it is good at syncing, I never got it to work realtime or started syncing when folders changed.

Secure Your Apache Websites With Ssl Self Signed Certificates

Like many others I’m running some websites/webapps at home, which I published to the outside world to gain access anywhere and on anydevice. This can be easily done by Apache, especially by using virtual hosts and reverse proxying.

Installation of Phpippam Ip Address Management on Debian 6 0

I while ago I bumped into a new project called IPPam, which was a new IP Address management system. I know there are a lot of other IPPam systems around, but this one caught my interests.