Tomorrow is the day!  Everything seems to be working, so tomorrow I shut down all the server, move some hardware around and bring everything up inside VM’s using VMWare.  The final plan includes setting up the main server with 4 250GB SATA II hard drives setup with RAID5 and a hot spare, which gives us [...]

Just thought I’d like to wish all my fellow SysAdmins Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!
http://www.sysadminday.com/

I managed to get the RAID array working this week.  So we now have RAID5 with a hot spare working.  That with removable hard drives will make up our DR plan.  I’ve been getting all the VM’s setup this week and everything is working well.  Last night I tested the new PDC VM and it [...]

My sister who has been living in North Africa for the past year came to town last night.  She’ll be here about a month before she returns.  It was good to see her again.  We didn’t get to visit long, but I’m sure I’ll see more of her this next month.  The kids were really [...]

If you’ve been following along you would know that I did some server upgrades this weekend. I didn’t do all the upgrades I planned on because of some driver issues. When everything was finished Friday I tested everything and it all worked fine, I also logged in remotely and tested everything again Saturday [...]

“Spam in the place where I live (ham and pork)
Think about nutrition, wonder what’s inside it now (oh boy)”
That’s how Weird Al’s SPAM begins. Little did Al know how the use of the word “SPAM” would change.
When we hear the word spam today, no one thinks of mystery meat, instead we all roll our [...]

This weekend we worked on some of the server upgrades I’ve been planning for so long. Unfortunately I’ve been having trouble with the hew RAID card I got for my SAN, so I wasn’t completely ready to do everything I had hoped. I ended up working more on the RAID card, and a [...]

There’s been some recent buzz in the network security industry because some “white hat hackers” are looking for more than just acknowledgment for vulnerabilities they discover. A so called “white hat hacker” is a person who spends their time looking for ways to exploit systems in order to make them more secure. The [...]

My little sister is moving to Russia soon.  She’s going as an English teacher and will be joining a team of missionaries our church supports.  In order to get her visa she had to submit a letter of invitation from the school she will be teaching at.  She got the letter and submitted all the [...]

Technical Preview 5 of Samba 4 recently came out. So I’ve downloaded it and will try to install it on an Ubuntu virtual machine running on VMWare. And because I’m such a nice guy, I’ll let you share the experience with me.
I’m starting with a basic Ubuntu Server 7.04 Feisty Faun configured as [...]