Clearly Symantec is NOT open source. The solution to a common data backup problem can be found with open source tools however. Issue: Backup2Tape provided long backup windows and an unreliable media. Soloution must use open source tools and existing hardware. Solution: Ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) NFS share running on Dell 2950 with six Seagate 1.5TB … Read more
Virtualization Lab: Part 2 – Concepts and Terminology Welcome to part two of my Virtualization Lab series. If you haven’t read part one, I would recommend reading it first. In this post I want to go over the concepts and terms that are used so frequently. Understanding the gist of virtualization will help lay a … Read more
I have been a user of Dropbox for about six months now and think that it is a great service. I have it installed and running on five systems, all of which run Ubuntu. When Jaunty Jackelope was released a week ago, I decided to upgrade all of my Ubuntu boxes. While the upgrade went … Read more
If you have tried installing the .deb package for Ubuntu from Skype you already know that you can’t because of errors relating to improper or wrong architecture. That is being caused by the way that Ubuntu sees the Intel Atom CPU. This is because Mini’s configuration is set to lpia not i386. You can force … Read more
As everyones knows, Ubuntu released the latest version of their operating system. I’m not here to tell you what the pros and cons are, I’m here to give you some upgrade results. My main two machines are a Dell Latitude D630 and a home built MSI/AMD/Nvidia system. Prior to the upgrade to Intrepid Ibex, my … Read more