Fedora 10 + VMware Workstation 6.5.0

After an upgrade to Fedora 10, VMware Workstation 6.5.0 would not run.  The kernel modules, as expected, needed to be compiled, but the only one that would not compile was the vmmon kernel module. Attempting to run vmware-modconfig resulted in a segfault, and attempting to compile the modules manually (as suggested in one of the

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AIX Integration in to Active Directory

Integrating an AIX system in to Active Directory is not entirely straight forward.  Integration in to an Active Directory domain for user authentication can be done utilizing the following steps (similar to that found in http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/README): Download and install the krb5.client.rte package for AIX. Download the pre-built AIX 5.2 (compatible with AIX 5.3) binaries from

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Cacti + RRDTool 1.3.x = No Graphs

I found out the hard way that the monitoring tool Cacti does not really support rrdtool 1.3.2. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround. Edit cacti/lib/rrd.php and comment out line 1685: // return “–font ” . strtoupper($type) . “:” . $size . “:” . $font . RRD_NL;