I have preferred Debian and Ubuntu over RHEL mostly because their package collection was much wider. Thus at work I wanted to go with Ubuntu LTS as deal between Ubuntu’s bleeding-edge and a more conservative approach of package versions while Debian Sqeeeze is not yet out. Happy thought I with the arrival of Microsoft hv-Moduls … more
This is not a computer related blog post but I “have to” write this rant since I’m regularly remembered about this cultural Problem: There happen to be people who have a suname that is often used as name like Philipp or Simon – the later one being my family name. It’s understandable for us that … more
I’ve not been that long with *nix OS so my interest in OpenSolaris doesn’t date much back. Mainly it came out of the combination of the great ZFS filesystem and COMSTAR Framework (Common Multiprocol SCSI Target). I will post later once why we opted for NexentaStor at work. This is a commercially supported variant of … more
Prologue At my workplace (besides study) we’ve been into virtualization for more than 3 years starting then with a mere 3 GB in the metal – squeezing 2-3 VMs onto a W2k3 + Virtual Server 2005 on it. It worked but it was rather slow, yet enough for Active directory, print server, DNS etc. Hyper-V … more
Hi – and welcome to this “yet another” Blog. I hope to post here some ramblings from my Computer science and Sysadmin life as well as some more or less interesting other things 🙂 Now that I’ve switched from Bighosting.biz to Cyon as Hosting provider I hope to give my bloggin a new start. – … more