My 3 year old son has been using my wife’s iPad since he was 1. He’s pretty good at it & we think it adds some valuable child development skills. Of course, we use a heavy duty case, but we haven’t really had an instance where he tried to Continue reading
NexentaStor is NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) underneath, so you really do have all the power & flexibility of an open unix system. That’s one of the reasons I love the project. If you want to add on additional functionality, it’s not so hard to do so. Everything I’ve done to Continue reading
Prelude To (finally) follow up on my original post, ZFS/ESXi All-In-One, Part 1, this post will go over how to configure ESXi & NexentaStor to work with each other, all from within one physical server. Typically, ESXi will connect to a physically separate server or appliance that provides storage. For Continue reading
First off, this post will help alleviate some of the guilt I’ve been having for neglecting my blog. Second, I just wanted to write it down for my reference. There’s probably a better way to do this but this worked for me.
In preparation for Lion, I planned to do a fresh install & wanted to secure erase my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD to get it working as optimally as possible. Nothing like a shiny new OS, ridden of all the cruft that builds up over the years. The problem? No easy Continue reading
We’re obsessed with making our lives easier. For as long as history spans, the human race has consistently found ways to improve & make things better &/or more efficient. Bigger, smaller, better, faster, <insert your favorite adjective>. Nothing wrong with that at all. It drives innovation & if anything will Continue reading
One of the lesser known features in OS X is the ability to resize your hard drive partition without losing data. No special software or gimmicks are required; this is built right into the OS. You can repartition your boot drive or any other drive your computer is using, such Continue reading
Beginnings Any IT admin worth his/her salt knows that virtualization is the big thing in IT right now & has been for a few years at least. It allows you to do things you wouldn’t be able to do on bare metal servers, such as move a server OS from Continue reading
The hot topic in the technology world right now is cloud computing. Everybody’s talking about it, using it, monetizing on it. It’s true meaning depends on who you talk to. I won’t factor in enterprise cloud deployments, because that’s usually whatever they make of it. Just look at all the Continue reading
My wife & I have been looking for a way to peek into our 1.5 year old toddler’s room at night without waking him up. Opening the door just wasn’t doing it, as it always wakes him up. So, we started looking into baby monitors that had video capabilities. Anything Continue reading