I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help …

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The fine folks over at ServeTheHome have done a fantastic job documenting the Dell C6100. This is a rather interesting system because:

1. It packs quite a bit of compute power into 2U for colocation
2. They are surprisingly cheap on the secondary markets

I'll lead you over to the ServeTheHome blog …

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I just noticed that the Sun/Oracle Ultra 27 is no longer listed on the Desktops section of Oracles products page. This is a shame because I'm quite pleased with mine.

This sends a couple of messages:

1. Oracle doesn't think Solaris/OpenSolaris is viable on the workstation
2. Oracle can't deliver …

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Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce it the Ultimate Linux Workstation in its class. He's a …

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Here's a video to accompany my previous blog post Windows 7 has definite backlight problems ("Black Screen of Death"). As mentioned before, I cannot reproduce this in Arch Linux. The problem began after a recent "Patch Tuesday".

Microsoft has been denying any problems like this in the media. Comment if …

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There is definitely a problem in Windows 7 RTM with the "Black Screen of Death" despite MS propaganda stating otherwise. This one has nothing to do with 3rd party antivirus software.

The particular problem I am having and see lots of reports on forums is that the backlight is not …

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DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the "Distributed Redundant Block Device", this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple nodes.

This is primarily useful in high availability …

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I'm happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4.

If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post "Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation Fun", you no longer need …

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I've just uploaded a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app & web service. I'm currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF backends and would like feedback with book files I haven't tried. Once the code is cleaned up, I will dump it on my site.

Motivation

I …

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I had an interesting day today. At school, we had a social event with an industry governing board and several local software companies in the Charleston, South Carolina region. Aside from meeting a lot of new people, I was able to ask some of the industry leaders present about the …

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