by wwarren | Oct 3, 2011 | Hardware, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone
HTC screwed up big time here. If you are using the stock HTC Sense UI(and most folks are) they have enabled a backdoor into the phones base operating system that essentially allows any app with simple permissions to sniff everything on or about the phone and send it...
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 | Jun 19, 2011 | Hardware, Linux, Open Source
The author forgets another huge market that Linux is behind. HDTV. I would say well north of 80% of all HDTV come with some form of Linux. The next time you purchase a HDTV check the packet for something about GNU license. If you see that..your tv is running...
by wwarren | Jun 19, 2011 | Internet, Linux, Open Source, Security, Sophos
I just passed the Astaro Certified Administrator course. The next one is the Astaro Certified Engineer. These will help further my status and abilities as an Astaro partner. These courses I ahve found to be a good use of time and actually add to my knowledge...