As I tend to work with a great deal of data comparisons between "corrupt" and restored data, its very helpful to have a great file comparison utility.   Beyond Compare is that utility that you need for this type of work.  I use it from compare folder structures, to database integrity, or to explain to that stubborn person that they are missing data and the missing data isn't in their back file.

The install is a straight forward rpm install.  Make sure you are su'd in your terminal

Linux Virtual Server
The Linux Virtual Server Project is a project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS load balancer handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
Homepage: http://www.LinuxVirtualServer.org/

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I have recently been looking for a new way to manage my ESXi servers in the datacenter as I was starting to get annoyed on having a ton of VI Clients open on my management box.  So after some Googling I found this awesome little management utility that lets you basically do everything you need to do when managing your ESXi servers.   The utility is called VM Explorer, Trilead is the application manufacture that is building and supporting the product.  They have 2 versions of the software -- a free version and a commerical version.   There are some limitations of the free version, but for sm

Since I've been running Fedora 11 exclusively on my primary laptop since everything I need to work works perfectly in this environment I have ditched VMWare Workstation and have taken Sun's Virtualbox which by the way works quite smoothly if you ask me.  Installation was quite easy, but sometimes people get thrown off base when you have to upgrade software in the Linux environment.  So here's the quick walkthrough of upgrading your Virtualbox installation

Open a terminal window and run the following commands:

(32bit OS install)

After a fairly rough time with Seesmic Desktop I’ve finally got a stable environment with their release of 0.4.1 today which seems to fix most of the erratic performance issues that I was seeing where my CPU was pegged and RAM usage was outa the water.   This is a must do application update!