November 8, 2007 – 12:15 am
For $399, you get a wickedly good, highly portable Linux-based laptop. Check out the review over at Laptop Magazine and Hot Hardware. With an solid state drive, LED backlit LCD, 4 USB ports, VGA-out, expansion slot for SD/Memory Stick, and room for a PCI-Express mini card, this looks perfect for the sysadmin on the go.
October 14, 2007 – 8:01 pm
Remote administration on your iPhone without installing any apps? Check out http://www.getinco.com/ . It’s not out just yet, but he is taking beta test requests. TUAW has an interview with the developer that’s worth a read as well.
October 14, 2007 – 3:23 am
One of the biggest challenges we face at work is managing storage. While we don’t run the day-to-day operations of, say, the EMC gear, we are responsible for engineering and maintaining some very high traffic and mission critical storage at the host level. Due to the nature of our Matrix management structure, this means [...]
October 11, 2007 – 6:39 pm
For some reason I have been asked this several times over the last two weeks. It is a simple enough thing to determine:
I am putting together a collection of photos of Angus to put into print form. iPhoto offers photo books at a pretty reasonable price, and the process is very simple. I also found Blurb.com, which offers an expanded version of the same. The latter also allows you to sell collections of your photos, which is [...]
August 31, 2006 – 5:30 pm
I got around to installing Compiz, Xgl, and aiglx on one of my Ubuntu boxes today. Despite the integrated Intel graphics, it all runs pretty well, with only occasional slowdowns. It’s pretty impressive, especially in comparison to my recent install of Windows Vista RC-1 with all its eye candy on a much higher specc’d machine.
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I’ve installed mod_cband on an apache2 host. Within the virtual host, I have the following:
CBandRemoteSpeed 300kbps 2 2
This should limit remote hosts to 300kbps, and 2 connections.
Now, I had to grab source and compile, since the apt-get Universal version did not work. Put everything where Ubuntu likes it, do a a2enmod to be sure, bounce [...]
We got our Penguin Computing server last night, and the first thing after unboxing and testing was to replace Fedora Core 4 with Ubuntu. I downloaded the x86-64 distro of Badger Breezy, slap the ISO in, and egads! the drives are not recognized. A quick trip to 3Ware’s site reveals that kernels 2.6.14 and above [...]
January 30, 2006 – 12:26 am
Note for self: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
I want to add several hard drives to my Ubuntu box so I’ll have enough room to backup my G5 (in addition to the Fw800 drive) and also rysnc down the web sites. Looks like the real hardware RAID cards for SATA are not too bad, at around $100 to $150. On [...]
January 24, 2006 – 6:02 pm
I took an older box at home (1.2Ghz AMD Athlon) that had been sitting idle for a while, and slapped Ubuntu on it this weekend. Quick and easy install, and was able to backup some of my sites. It had been sitting idle for quite a while - not because I was deciding what do [...]
