I'll briefly summarize this blog post on installing rdesktop on Centos 7.

First, we'll set up the RPM build environment (as your local user):

$ sudo yum install rpm-build make gcc
$ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
$ echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros

Now, fetch and install the source …

Update: I've created scripts to automate much of this process. You can find them on GitHub.

I often need to connect to a VPN with a Cisco ASA box at the head-end, using a DoD CAC (smart card) for authentication.

On Windows, this is often accomplished using Cisco's AnyConnect VPN …

The 1 TB drives for my HP server came today. Scott at All Computer Parts was very helpful and quick to reply. I quickly went to hot-plugging them into my server running Proxmox VE.

Create RAID

After the drives spun-up, I logged into the HP System Management Homepage (download) and …

I spent days searching for the Suspend option in my new CentOS 7 installation.

Well, I finally found it, but it wasn't as easy as you'd expect.

First you need to install a couple things:

$ sudo yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu gnome-tweak-tool

Next, log-out and log back in.

Then, use gnome-tweak-tool to …

TL;DR: You need to install the ntfs-3g package, in order for os-prober to detect Windows installations. This allows grub2-mkconfig to automatically generate an entry for dual-booting into Windows.

Doing a lot more hardware hacking these days, I've felt constrained running Linux in a VM all the time. I was …