Gentoo and Firefox - system colours reverting

Does your firefox keep reverting to using system colours in gentoo? Is it going to drive you crazy? ME TOO. The fix: /opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js and set use.system.colors to false. Hopefully this will get patched soon.

side by side

side by side, originally uploaded by djsmiley2k.

Somuch better!

Monitor unpacked

Monitor unpacked, originally uploaded by djsmiley2k.

and unpacked!

24inch Asus Monitor

24inch Asus Monitor, originally uploaded by djsmiley2k.

yey monitors! !!

The beginning of the end.

The beginning of the end., originally uploaded by djsmiley2k.

Attach Physical disks in ESXi

 From 0xbadc0de

I built a new lab environment at home, using VMWare ESXi 5.0, which is a very nice product, if we expect the windows-only GUI 1GB HDD needed to install bloatware. You can do pretty much anything from there, except something that looks so important that I wonder why it’s not on the windows GUI: mapping local disks to VMs.

I made this little post as a reminder for myself rather than a full tutorial. You can get more info on http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi, on which this post is based.
In a nutshell:

1. log on vmware ESXi as root.
2. locate the name of your fs in /vmfs/devices/disks/, i.e. “/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDT725025VLA380_______________________VFL104R6CNYSZW“
3. go to where you want to copy it. I suggest you create a directory in a datastore for this, like “/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/harddisks/“
4. vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDT725025VLA380_______________________VFL104R6CNYSZW Hitashi250.vmdk
5. In your VM, use “attach existing virtual disk” and browse the harddisks directory on datastore.
6. On linux, you will need “rescan-scsi-bus” to have you new hard disk detected.
7. Profit