I joined Lopsa because I feel that it is important to “professionalize” the practice of System Administration. So what does “professionalize” mean? According to Webster it means “to give a professional character to” where professional means “characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession” and “having a particular profession as…
Have you ever had the need to allow web access to files on a samba or windows fileserver and really did not want to deal with setting up a VPN for the users (some of whom need access to just see a single file) or keep track of permissions on the file server and it…
I was asked recently to find a low cost setup for a small software development company (about 30 people) for their infrastructure that had growth potential. I came up with the following: – One server running Open-E DSS software SAN/NAS: This holds 12 1TB disks in a raid 10 mirror and shares out the disks…
The Palm Pre continues to amaze me. It took 15 minutes to tether my laptop (I am tethered as I write this) to the Pre. The key application is http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/191213-my-tether-tether-over-wifi-usb-bt.html which enables you to tether the laptop to the Pre via the Pre’s Wifi (open access point or via USB (a lot more secure and…
Read an interesting discussion on the lkml list where Linus and friends talked about atime’s performance impacts (http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148). Ingo phrased the problem best with: ‘ For every file that is read from the disk, lets do a … write to the disk! And, for every file that is already cached and which we read from…