himuraken As posted many times before, I purchased two Dell Mini 9’s on September 4th, 2008 which was the first day that they were publicly available. Both units have worked pretty much as expected so far. I have seen battery run times somewhere between 3-4 hours on a full charge and had been quite impressed. As … Read more
Using backup to disk (B2D) as a backup destination is becoming more and more common. I attribute much of this to the rock bottom prices of disk based storage as well as simplicity. It is much more convenient to point a backup to device A and call it a day, as opposed to tape and … Read more
After turning in my HTC 6800 as an insurance claim, I was given a new HTC Touch Pro running Windows Mobile 6.1. I had not even tethered my data phone since my UTC 6700 and was curious if it could even be done on the newer Windows Mobile OS. So few Google searches later, I … Read more
I caught this story yesterday and thought that it was an interesting look into some of the hardware considerations that Google has made. Naturally, everyone is buzzing about batteries built into the systems themselves… laptops have always had them XD. Anyways, its a good read. Here is the link. –Himuraken
After getting my Dell PowerEdge loaded up with ESXi 3.5, I decided to try out one of the Ubuntu JEOS loads from the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace. After unzipping the 7zip file I was left with the normal VMWare file types such as .vmx and .vmdk, but ESXi only gives me the option to bring … Read more
After my Buffalo NAS physically failed, I decided to go back to the good ole’ home brew files server / NAS. So I stripped out the 250GB drives from the NAS and set out to setup Linux software RAID which is also known as md RAID. I went this route because my hardware RAID controller … Read more
I have been playing around with ESXi and needed to upload some files via SCP and discovered that SSH is not enabled by default. There are many sources out there for accomplishing this but I found the following information to be the easiest to follow. 1) At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 … Read more
After breaking my VMWare Workstation install by upgrading to the latest kernel, I decided to give VirtualBox a try. VirtualBox comes in two flavors, the full version and the open source edition (OSE). I have had a great time creating virtual machines in VirtualBox, the application really is quite solid. I am seeing performance similar … Read more