So several months ago, I like the rest of the world, was notified that end of life (EOL) for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala would happening. In the news blurb/mailing list, wherever I found it, I walked away thinking that security updates would cease to exist. In preparation for the upgrade, I went ahead and cloned … Read more
I have worked with and supported just about every version of MS desktop operating systems. That is life in the corporate environment. No matter your opinion of Microsoft OS, it gets the job done for the business user. However, there are many less than desirable “features”, such as licensing costs, hardware requirements, resources used by … 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
This week I joined the Ubuntu LoCo Florida Team and participated in last night’s team meeting (via IRC). Seems like a great group of people AND an excellent way to get more involved with Ubuntu (and really any Linux). In addition to the IRC meetings, there are scheduled meetups to perform various activities such as … Read more
Just wrapped up another Ubuntu LoCo meeting. The meetings are fun, informative, and full of ideas. I am still truly amazed by the community efforts in open source project and Ubuntu is no exception. You can join your LoCo anytime or idle in ours on Freenode @ #ubuntu-us-fl. –himuraken
Recently, I converted a decently spec’d terminal server into an ESXi server after doing a P2V on the TS. After that, it was time to play. I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.04 server and then installed FOG. If you don’t know what FOG is, you may want to read FOG’s overview here. Once … Read more
Original Post: Open Source Technology As Business Solutions: Openfiler – Symantec CPS Destination We quickly noticed an issue with the iSCSI connector not automatically re-connecting the drive mapping when either the Openfiler server or the CPS server was rebooted. After some troubleshooting and most testing failed to resolve this issue, this project was scrapped in … Read more
For anyone that is not a Linux command-line expert (myself included!) webmin is an invaluable tool. A very quick install of this allows advanced administration from any web browser that can access the IP address of the server. Version 1.480 is the current release. Check it out and you will be pleasently surprised… Instructions provided … Read more