Virtualization Due to server hardware refresh coming at work, I am investigating routes which we can take, one of the new ones is going virtual. It has couple of advantages like High Availability, and Fail Over which are very important these days ( users complain if their services are not available 100% ) So...
Read more →This was suppose to be a long post describing the differences and similarities of Linux distributions to other software… But I just want to say that you should have a look at Mac OS and Ubuntu, I’ve notice they are bloody similar in their current market and … ambitions. They are both good on...
Read more →For very long time I am contemplating to buy an ebook, usually they were extremely expensive ( the eRex ) or didn’t had the MobiPocket® read functionality – Sony ( as I have a collection of ebook in that format I would love to be able to read them on the ebook reader, not...
Read more →I am about to change my E61 for something new. I am looking for something what will not be only new but will has more features as well. So far I have found that : Palm is thinking that Europe loves only Windows Mobile – I don’t! The two of the latest Treos are...
Read more →After years of consideration I have acquired a Bluetooth HeadSet – finally something what doesn’t screen rob me. Sound quality is decent! There is one but – outdoor, music source has to really close to your headset , there is shit loads of interferences out the in world. Indoors is perfect, I can roam...
Read more →Just installed reCAPTCHA to get rid of spam from comments. You don’t see, but there was a lot of spam comments on my blog. As I have moderation on, they didn’t appear on the site… but it does not mean that they didn’t appear in my inbox. So now, reCAPTCHA will help keep my...
Read more →If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type. For some thoughts about the second type, read more
Read more →I have been, recently, working with OpenSSL as a mini CA. As it is a great product, does everything with PKI what you need. Even after a while it is making sense how to use it. No problems. One issue, which held me a while was lack of clear information, instructions or interface to...
Read more →I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored. I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit. My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with...
Read more →Yesterday I have ordered a WD3200YS disk, it’s a Western Digital RE ( RAID Edition ) 320GB disk. Today arrived. Disk is now sitting in my MV and rebuilding volume on to it. So in 7h and 30m I will have a fully working RAID 1. I can already hear my data whisper “yes,...
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