Ben Kevan’s Blog

Fat guy on Google Finance for Tomato Salmonila scare

Today, much like every other day I was checking out the US Stock Market and tracking my holdings on finance.google.com, where I saw an article about the Tomato Salmonella scare. The strange thing is the thumbnail posted for the article looked like this:

Now I was so curious how that picture was relevant to the article, I clicked on it and found this:

Now is the only relevance that the fat man is eating a whole tray of food, with what looks to be about 3 whole tomatoes? Or are they trying to scare you from eating tomatoes with the fear that you’ll be a fatass?

Tags: fat ass tomato man

Installing Patches on your ESX Server

VMWare releases patches for ESX quite often, and it can get tiring installing them all the time one by one. So I wrote a wiki for the methods I use, which cut down the time of installation (for me having 20+ production hosts) quite a-bit.

Here is the link:
http://www.benkevan.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Patches_on_ESX_Server

Here’s a little excerpt from it:

Install Released Patches

To install patches released by VMWare download them and transfer them to your esx server
scp -r patchrootdir user@server:/tmp/patches

ssh into your ESX server with your local ESX server account.
ssh servername

One you are on the host change user to root
su -

If you copied over the zip files change directory to the patches location and unzip all the patches
cd /tmp/patches
for i in *.zip; do unzip $i; done; rm *.zip

Now install the patches
for j in ESX*; do cd $j; esxupdate –noreboot update; cd ..; done
Note: If there are dependancies and not all of them are install just run the command above twice.

Tags: esx, VMWare