himuraken Just dropping a quick post as a time stamp. I woke up this morning to an alert on my Nexus S indicating that Gingerbread 2.3.4 was available. I haven’t had anytime to dig in or read change logs yet, but I did notice that Gtalk now has front facing camera / video support. ***Update*** Looks … Read more
In this post I would like to share some of my initial thoughts of the Netgate Hamakua. We were looking for a 1U half depth rack mount system to run pfSense 1.2.3 on. Although we haven’t mentioned it much here on the blog, we love working with pfSense. PfSense is a fork of the m0n0wall … Read more
Found this great article and thought I would share it with RH readers: Original text from http://blog.scottlowe.org/ In an earlier article about VMware ESX, NIC teaming, and VLAN trunking, I described what the configuration should look like if one were using these features with Cisco switch hardware. It’s been a quite popular post, one I … Read more
In my previous post on ZFS performance testing I ran through various tests on a particular test system that I had running at the time. That system has come and gone to a better place in the proverbial cloud. This go round, I have a similar server with a different ZFS configuration. Lets dive in … Read more
***Update*** This started a simple post to share a few results from various levels of zfs/array testing. Be sure to check back from time to time as I add additional configuration results. ***Begin Original Text*** I have been playing around with ZFS on various operating systems lately and have been trying to compare performance. I … Read more
Being that it is my job and my nature to keep systems running, I generally don’t upgrade OS’ quickly. Doing so introduces change which in turn breaks things. After performing an install of the latest version of Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 I found the performance to quite poor. After a quick Google search I found that … Read more
I have come across a few useful KB articles from VMware recently and thought I would stick them here for future reference. Installing ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1 best practices If you are planning to or have recently deployed vCenter Server 4.1 or ESX(i) 4.1, this KB article from VMware may be of some … Read more
Starting seeing this on a few clients servers after a recent patch management cycle. It appears to be KB934525 that takes the blame here. After attempting a repair install on one of the systems I eventually found this buried at the bottom of some page that references KB934525. Your application event log will most likely … Read more