by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, Microsoft, NPO's, Open Source
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It’s a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd’s in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs...
by wwarren | Aug 15, 2010 | Church, Hardware, Intel, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping....
by wwarren | Jul 29, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Open Source
After some internal testing and research i can honestly say that virtualization may not be the best solution except for larger deployments. For the same money(or less) than either upgrading one server to be able to host multiple vm’s or the purchase of a new...
by wwarren | Jul 28, 2010 | Linux, Microsoft, Windows
This is the primary reason Unix folks remove the computer, make an image for forensics, and then rebuild from a known good source. Windows folks have yet to figure this one out. I take the same philosophy towards malware that Unix admins do..nuke the...
by wwarren | Jul 17, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Open Source, Security, Vendors
This is very good reading. IF you decide to go with a cloud solution the big question is..are you in control of your data or are you at the total mercy of the cloud vendor? This has significant ramifications for your business if the cloud vendor either fails to...
by wwarren | Jun 27, 2010 | Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Storage, Vendors, Windows
PERC S300 – can it be made to work?. I saw this on the Dell Linux mailing list. I did a bit of research and found this is a windows only FAKERAID product. What I mean by FAKERAID is the card fakes like it is a raid card but all of the work is done on the cpu....
