Replacing 1TB Linux RAID mirror with 2TB drives...Live

 Posted on November 20, 2010  (Last modified: November 22, 2010)

Well, I have run out of storage for backups and shared media on my home-grown Linux NAS server.&nbsp_place_holder; My existing 1TB mirror is full.&nbsp_place_holder; Now that 3 TB drives have started to trickle out, the 2 TB capacity devices are dropping in price. [Read More]

Live Partition Mobility

 Posted on October 6, 2010

We are tuning and testing the performance of a new policy administration system and SOA platform.&nbsp_place_holder; In order to provide some baseline details, we have used IBM PowerVM live partition mobility to reorganize the virtual LPAR topology without having to interrupt or introduce idle time to the effort by stopping and restarting complex application environments. [Read More]

Halo Reach

 Posted on September 15, 2010

Halo Reach went on sale yesterday, 9/14/2010. &nbsp_place_holder;I ran into my local Best&nbsp_place_holder;Buy on the way home from work to pick up a copy. &nbsp_place_holder;While the shelves were pretty light on the game-only SKUs, there were plenty of special editions available for $79 and $149. [Read More]

Ubuntu 10.04 Annoyance -- window title bar buttons on the left

 Posted on August 12, 2010

&nbsp_place_holder;I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. &nbsp_place_holder;Immediately after starting it up, I was faced with a huge annoyance. &nbsp_place_holder;The window title-bar buttons were on the left. &nbsp_place_holder;Being a right-handed person, this threw me for a loop. [Read More]