Nice to know – Volume 2

udev re­names you net­work in­ter­faces

Some­times udev re­names your de­vices. This hap­pened to me when up­grad­ing a server, eth0 sud­denly be­came eth1 and vice-versa. Of course, this broke nearly all fire­wall scripts on the server… There is a nice ex­pla­na­tion how to get udev to name your de­vices the way you want.

Vi­sual Stu­dio 2005 Ser­vice Pack 1 on Mi­crosoft Win­dows Server 2003

When in­stalling Vi­sual Stu­dio Ser­vice Pack 1 under Win­dows Server 2003, it might fail be­cause it can­not ver­ify the sig­na­ture. You should take time and visit the link pro­vided in the error mes­sage, be­cause it will take you to a hot­fix that will cor­rect the prob­lem.

(via Mark Car­oll’s Blog)

VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.04

A nice tu­to­r­ial for get­ting free VMWare Server 1.0.5 run­ning on Ubuntu 8.04.