Archive for December, 2009
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Almost 3 years to the day, I'm looking to now bring down the Qmail Toaster appliance I've been using and liking. Its been very good for a long time, but no matter how I try to tune the spam filters, more and more stuff is getting through, and now ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Today my replacement DL380G3 arrived. My existing one that runs VMWare on it, has been very unstable. The condition is something that nobody seems to have an answer for other than "try a motherboard". So when I started searching for prices for replacement motherboards, it was more ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
While trying to hook up an HP Dv9000 series laptop with Vista, to a printer that is shared off an XP pc, I ran into some issues. The printer was an HP 3015 all in one laser jet scanner/printer/copier/fax machine. It worked fine with XP on the desktop ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Had a power failure in the house this morning due to storm. I was pretty psyched that everything would be ok, but as it turns out, one of the racks needs a new UPS - its not large enough to handle all that I have on it. But ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Well, my external usb hard drives arrived today. I got 2 of the Seagate 1.5TB drives from an online retailer for $106 each - a deal indeed. They are the ones Im going to connect to FreeNAS in a mirrored 1.5TB share. That should fix my problems ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Quite a few updates recently. Instead of upping the DL585G1 to 6Gb, went with 5Gb instead, so the newest of the DL380G3's can come online with 4Gb installed. That lets me migrate some vm's over from the DL383 to the newest DL380 - specifically the heavy running one. ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Added RAM to each of my DL380G3's today so they are now up to a meager 5Gb each. That will allow me to add 2Gb to my DL585G1 now as well, so I get get a meager 6Gb on that one. It aint much, but every little bit ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Modified my dns configuration again. All timeouts now removed. I had an extra hop where I was diverting some lookups, but I have now removed that. Im also trying out the new 4psa dns server as well - to see if its solid/reliable.
Also modified my big brother ...
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