Challenges with Super Micro H8SSL-R10 This week I found a little time to do some preventive maintenance on one of my servers. It was configured as a software raid 5 with… Read more »
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) I hadn’t given this much thought recently but a post on the NANOG mailing list had a question from someone attempting to deploy a GSLB… Read more »
Just say no to Cheap Registrars Until recently I have had very little experience with some of the “so called” cheap registrars. I say “so called” because they in fact… Read more »
Windows 2003 NTBackup Scheduling Anomalies I admit that I don’t spend much time with microsoft windows computers but today I found myself helping a small business with their backup strategy and… Read more »
Your Computer is Not Infected This is starting to get tedious. These companies trying to sell you their fake windows repair software by spoofing a message on your computer screen…. Read more »
Raid 5 Distress and File Server Woes Today I thought it was time to do a little preventive maintenance. About twice a year I strive to take the home/office computers… Read more »
Fedora 12 Software Raid I have my desktop configured with 4 1TB disk drives. The boot is a raid 1 under md0 and everything else is md1 and is a… Read more »
IPv6 is Ready Now Recently, I had the opportunity to watch and listen to Mike Warfield’s talk on IPv6. He obviously has loads of practical experience with it and made… Read more »
When Windows SP3 Lets us Down Recently our little acer netbook running windows XP SP3 in only a 8GB static disk drive broke and wouldn’t allow us to perform updates…. Read more »
Atop – A top System and Process Monitor Just learned about this useful tool called atop. Better than top and just as useful as vmstat; atop will track processes as they… Read more »