After many years, I have decided to migrate my primary journal off of Livejournal over to Dreamwidth. You can go see the new one here.Why did I move it? Well, because as screwed up as the U.S. is getting, I'd rather not have my main content managed under Russian law. *shrug ( Read more... )

Another orbit around the sun is nearing its demise for this greenish-blue ball that manages to keep the human race alive ( Read more... )

Wow.. I even missed the Fishmas post last year. Not dead yet, but plenty busy.

Did you know it's possible to emulate a SPARC machine inside an x86 virtual machine and still have decent performance?

Anyway... some food for thought...

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Made it through to a new year ( Read more... )

Cats and buttered toast for the win!

Also, got a new job! Yay!

This took some trial and error, and my google-foo didn't turn up the answer, so here it is for all to enjoy.

Prerequisites

1. Working PXE server
2. Server that can share the ISO via NFS

Howto:

1. Create an nfs export with a folder that contains just the Live XFCE ISO. In this example it is located on the server 192.168.1.10 in /mnt/netboot/Fedora-Live-Xfce- ( Read more... )

After my brief trip to visit family I was trying to sync my CentOS 7 laptop back to my Windows 7 desktop and kept having the file transfer fail. I noticed that it seemed to work briefly if I rebooted the Windows 7 machine ( Read more... )

Last night I decided to replace my venerable APC Smart UPS 1400 and a slightly newer Smart UPS 1500 that provide the main part of the lab with a much newer pair of Smart UPS SMX1500RM2U Units. That part of the evening maintenance went fairly well and I do like now being able to check how much wattage I'm pulling in my lab without having to ( Read more... )

So after building things out and getting a couple of power bills, decided I should refactor the lab a little bit. For starters, I sat down and actually put the single Xeon L5310 motherboard in the secondary storage node ( Read more... )