Had to upgrade my storage over the past week and decided to see just how good Linux software raid (mdadm) and SATA hot plugging were these days. The current setup was a five disk array with two 1TB and three 750GB drives attached to an ASUS M3A76-CM motherboard in AHCI mode. My first issue was [...]

During a big lab move at work a few months ago, we decided that our utility virt server needed VLAN support. The dhcp vm needed interfaces on three different networks and it seemed rather silly to add extra physical interface for the minimal traffic generated. The first issue we encountered was the rather interesting bridging [...]

I’ve been running Gentoo on it for forever, but lately I’ve grown tired of dealing with the weekly tree breakage and hassles. I also wanted to attempt a 64 bit OS in the hopes it would gain me enough to play h264-encoded files w/o glitches. My first attempt was using Ubuntu, but performance wasn’t much [...]

I wrote up a little review of the Nokia Internet Tablets for Red Hat Magazine. Go check it out!