Bought my signifigant other a Galaxy Tablet for an upcoming trip and decided to get her up and running with WiFi tethering. I tether my laptops to my Droid’s frequently and love it. Long story short, it wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped. After several hours of frustrating work trying to get a … Read more
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
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
Attended my second VMware User Group Meeting (VMUG) today. The first meeting that I attended was held at the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s office a couple of month back. Today’s meeting was sponsored by Tech Data and held at their Clearwater, FL headquarters. First up was VMware which gave a presentation of upcoming features … Read more
The VDI marketplace has been heating up. VMware’s recent launch of View 4 seems to have sparked more interest overall. Microsoft has further cemented its partnership with Citrix to provide virtual desktops. Microsoft has also simplified (and reduced pricing) on using desktop OS in a virtual environment. Recent promotions by Citrix (and Microsoft) are geared … Read more