Background We have been luddites running plain Xen 4.x hypervisor atop of Debian for way too long. Manually launching/stopping virtual machines, no live migration, no…
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My adventures into Linux land. So far, I’ve only dealt with Debian (Sarge and Etch)
You can initiate a Secure Erase on an SSD but only if the drive is already password protected Add password to the drive:hdparm –user-master u…
Leave a CommentDebian wheezy system, trying to get some SNMP names in my snmpwalk. % download-mibs … … inflating: /tmp/tmp.4hFK5WH1Uf/6.3mib/6.3mib/standards/mib-rfc3896.txt cat: /tmp/tmp.4hFK5WH1Uf/snmpv2/NS-ADDR.mib: No such file or directory…
Leave a CommentI previously posted about the migration we performed for a customer for their email server. This weekend we performed a cutover for another client from…
Leave a CommentNo more PowerPC, no more Xserve: Debian to the rescue.
Leave a CommentOne of our customers is running our ECMSquared Email server solution and recently decided they had outgrown the platform it was installed on. Mailbox access…
1 CommentWe have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 laying around doing nothing, and my friend asked to set up a server for him so he has a…
Leave a CommentThis is a continuation of the saga of helping a customer of ours with their MySQL on Windows issues. The basic premise is that MySQL…
Leave a CommentIn our previous adventures with Mac Minis as “blade” servers, I thought we might try installing Ubuntu/Debian on an Intel MacMini and seeing how the…
Leave a CommentHaving built a couple of other Debian servers using software RAID 1, but not recalling exactly how I got it to work, I decided to…
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