the difference that is no difference makes no difference
So I gave up on that inctel mini-itx i5 I had. It had some weird problem where it was unreliable to turn it on (imagine yourself turning the off/on switch multiple times over an hour before it suddenly starts up again). I still look at the array of tiny pcs inctel have on their aliexpress […]
So I’ve been using various laptops at home as ‘servers’ for many years. Up till recently this was an old Thinkpad R60, upgraded to a core 2 duo CPU, stuffed with two 500GB drives and some external drives. I used it for KVM VM’s and as a DLNA server amongst other things. It satisfied my […]
Sometimes I think I spend too much time on ebay. I’m still using my Thinkpad R60 as a home server; running with Scientific Linux 6.2, using it as a media server plus KVM VM hosting. But I’m always on the lookout for something (cheap) to replace it, as it only goes to 3GB of ram […]
Just some notes about sort of newish stuff (depends on your distro) in Linux LVM. It’s August 2012. I’m mainly using Redhat 6.3/Fedora 17 at the moment. Snapshot Merging into Original (ie. drop the snapshot and revert to the pre-snapshot state) If you dig through my old posts you’ll see some convoluted method of doing […]
NetworkManager is one of those things in the linux world that many SysAdmins hate. It’s a bit like your mother-in-law; it means well but is really really irritating. On any new system I set up, the first thing I do is get rid of it, and just use the old-school config files way of setting […]
I haven’t posted for a while about my Scientific Linux 6.0 setup on my Thinkpad R60. It all kind of goes well. However SL 6.0 is kind of old, 6.1 has been out for a while and 6.2 is on the horizon (UPDATE: Ooops, I see its now out!). So I thought I’d upgrade to […]
So I’ve had Scientific Linux 6.0 64 bit on my Thinkpad R60 for a while now, and for the most part it has been fine. But one thing that has really annoyed me is that everytime there is a kernel update, I notice that the laptop fan is stuck on (when the system is essentially […]
So, as per my previous post, I was searching for an upgrade path for my Thinkpad R60 virtualistation server running Debian Lenny. I’d tried upgrading to Squeeze a few times … and didn’t like it … always reverting back to Lenny. So after trying a few different distros/virtualisation hypervisors (using a spare disk), I settled […]
So, my main virtualisation machine here at home is a Thinkpad R60 running Debian Lenny, with KVM as the virtualisation engine. This has been my main ‘server’ host for over a year and a half now. I have quite a few VMs on it, but most are for testing out stuff, so there is only […]
Yes, I know Snow Leopard has been out for ages, and I did actually purchase the ‘real’ install DVD for it some time ago, but well ‘Leopard’ seemed to be working fine on my Macbook, and well I’m very cynical of these claims that ‘upgrading is easy and trouble free’. However, I bought a Hitachi […]
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