by wwarren | Sep 13, 2011 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8
This isn’t even a beta so if it breaks..burps..acts up..etc etc this is not the completed product. The core is basically done which is why developers are getting this. ECC’s testing of this begins immediately after I finish downloading the file. Watch...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2011 | Hardware, Linux, Swift Systems, Vendors
Ecc’s site(among others hosted here) has been spontaneously rebooting randomly over the past couple of days. The server is hosted by Swift Systems in Frederick and finally ECC and Swift personnel had to swap the drives into another identically configured server...
by wwarren | Aug 20, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source
Vmware is really easy but it doesn’t work with machines that do not have hardware assisted RAID. Most of my clients(including myself) don’t have enough I/O demands tht a hardware accelerated card is required. This is when the beauties of Linux MD(NOT DM)...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
While “clouds” on the internet are a terrible idea they do have their place INSIDE the building. I am currently building and researching exactly this type of internal cloud. In my shop I have two servers. At idle(which is where most of them spend their...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | Cloud Computing
Not if this trend by just about every internet provider type continues….at least not in the United States. Frankly given the rash of security problems and the fact this is old technology wrapped up into a new term it really needs to be scaled back anyway....