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KVM: Virtualising Servers
Nov 18th
Tonight at LOGIN the topic is Virtualisation. I’ve spent the last week playing with KVM to virtualise some of our servers at work. So the meeting topic will be interesting from the point of view of comparing technologies to that end. However, I have also been asked to briefly discus KVM.
HOWTO: NextG over LAN w/ SmoothWall
Oct 3rd
As mentioned before in Next G over LAN my phone line has a high signal attenuation, too high for me to get ADSL. Essentially this means there is too much copper cable between the exchange and my house. I need some form of broadband at home so I turned to wireless. The 3G HSDPA networks
Xorg 7.3 Hotplug Output … Finally
Sep 7th
I use a laptop as my primary computer at both work and home – and I like using Linux as a Desktop OS. However the one thing that has bugged me for many years is the difficulties experienced when attaching an external monitor. Today with the release of Xorg 7.3 there is support for hotplugging
NextG Over LAN
Jul 18th
I’ve spent the last week or so comparing options for how I could share the new shiny NextG connection between the various computers that Prue and I have. The wireless modem has a usb connection, so it doesn’t really work well for a LAN. However with a little patience you can easily configure a Linux
Postfix under Windows
Jun 28th
The servers here at work run a version of Windows Server. While personally I’m not a fan of running Windows as a server OS, working in a team, means working in a team. Anyway, there is considerable machine and network load with the current infrastructure, which we are fixing. New servers, reorganise the LAN a