Pretend you have a medium sized environment, all Windows, and you want to accomplish one small task. For example, get the list of installed software on all computers. Great. You can sit down for a day, or two, write some huge and complicated software which will open each and every registry on your network, and…
Lets assume you have a method of point-in-time copy of Microsoft Exchange DB and logs, while the system is running, to an alternate server. Let’s assume, if we’re at that, that this point-in-time is consistent, and that you can mount this store (depending on using the similar directory structure, etc.), on an alternate server, and…
And had the chance to be in one of the largest server farms I’ve ever been to. Could not take pictures, though. We were connected to a proxied and limited network, inside the organization, with a limited set of allowed web sites. It was terrible. Then I’ve figured that if I purchase wireless network connection…
I run CSMS for SMB in my organization. Not long ago I have lost all my settings. It means that using the web interface, I have gotten empty scan rules for my groups. All computers, actually, were scanning for an empty list of file extensions to scan, meaning no scanning at all. I tracked it…
Not too long ago I have purchased a brand new Hitachi HW100 Workgroup Storage. 14+1 400GB SATA disks, dual-interface, each holding two fiber ports (2Gb/s LC). A nice machine. However, two limitations I have discovered are clouding my day: 1. It supports only Raid0 and Raid5. It will not allow me no-parity Raid, aka, Raid1….
After upgrading my laptop to 2.6.15.1 kernel, hibernation worked flawlessly. Running my previous version of kernel – 2.6.14.2, I have had some hibernation instabilities. I’ve had some memory corruptions here and there, which would have required I reboot the machine. So far, and it’s been a while, I’m glad to say I had no reason…
