There is an interesting article that goes over some of the real requirements of setting up a cloud environment at your corporation.  One of the things I hate about most cloud discussions is the marketing fluff that goes along with them.  This article talks about the real hardware involved in a simple cloud setup.  Don’t [...]

The people over at Data Center Knowledge dug up a video demonstrating a gas fire suppression system.  Cut to 40 seconds in to see the system go off and skip the marketing fluff. 

According to InfoWorld Red Hat will be open sourcing their Red Hat Network software.  This should be great for the community but I hope it doesn’t cut too much into the profits for Red Hat.
I can imagine that soon CentOS will release a RHN server to easily manage all of your CentOS servers.  RHN was [...]

I recently installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my home computer and ran into a problem when I would switch between my user and my wife’s.  After we were both logged on and I performed the switch, it would go to a “white” screen.  Searching around, this is a known issue.  At the bottom of the [...]

I ran into this problem today, I have a user account on a FreeBSD machine that needs the ability to rsync and scp files to the server. I really didn’t see any need for the user to have full ssh access to the machine. So I headed over to the ports tree to do some [...]

It seems the twitter virus is catching, first Amazon was down last week and now Slashdot is down.

Stefan Grothkopp developed a web based shell like interface for google ( goosh.org ), which I’ve been using most of the day today. It’s very fast, and has a lot of nice features, such as:

Wikipedia
Place (google maps)
Image search
Video
Blogs
Feeds
Firefox search box (addengine)

So far, the only complaint I’ve had is that when you search, and you type [...]

The FreeBSD foundation announced today that they will be switching their source code management system from the long time established CVS system to Subversion.
I believe that this will be a good switch for FreeBSD. CVS has for a long time now been fairly outdated with it’s feature set. In the article FreeBSD has mentioned that [...]

Like many people, I have installed SharePoint in environments with Active Directory (AD) many times. I had not however installed it without AD until recently. I have found the following resources extremely helpful with this task and I figured I would post them here so others wouldn’t have to go through searching I did.
http://blogs.msdn.com/fooshen/archive/2007/02/01/installing-moss-without-ad.aspx
This is a [...]

It’s pretty awesome what NASA is doing to get people more interested in space exploration.  First they had the live touchdown even on television for the lander, and now Phoenix has it’s own twitter feed!
Check out this tweet from Phoenix:
Looking forward to an exciting day on Mars; My first dig in the dirt! Team calls [...]