Last week, we looked at how essential scripting is for administering home servers (one of the 7 tips for home server bliss) and we wrote us a little script for enabling automatic snapshots.
Another thing that you’ll almost certainly want to do on your OpenSolaris home server is enabling …
Firefox 3.6 has introduced a new feature (that was in Beta for some time): Personas.
What’s a Persona? From Firefox’ own description: Personas are easy-to-use themes that let you personalize the look of your Firefox There’s a very nicely done video on the Firefox Personas site to …
One of my OpenSolaris Home Server Tips is to script everything. That triggered quite some interest. So let’s start a short series around OpenSolaris home server scripting.
Today, we’ll talk a little bit about the “why?” of home server scripting, then run into a small surprise while we …
Over the weekend, I redesigned the theme of my blog. I hope you like the result!
While I’m not a web design nor a theming expert, it was still quite easy to find a nice theme, and apply some blog-friendly customizations to it. Here are a few tips to …
A while ago, we tried defining ebooks, and figure out what they are, and what they aren’t. Now, let’s have a look at some success factors, or barriers, business implications and the (un)necessity of DRM.
For ebooks to be successful, they absolutely …
In a recent blog article about the future of IT admins, my MUCOSUG-Buddy Wolfgang wondered whether the new generation of self-managed, appliance-like systems like Oracle Exadata (no link, page no longer exists), Oracle Sun Storage 7000 (no link, page no longer exists) and their friends from other vendors are …
A lot of people have read last year’s article “A Small and Energy-Efficient OpenSolaris Home Server” (Thanks a lot to Andre Lue from the EON project for linking to it!) and there was quite some discussion on different RAID options as a result of my RAID-Greed article.
So …
I give a lot of presentations to customers and I tend to create a lot of new slides for the presentation decks I use. I’m also a huge fan of Presentation Zen, the book and the blog, as well as Duarte Design’s blog, with their excellent slide:ology …
Science Fiction stretches our imagination and makes us dream about cool, future, distant worlds and realities. And it’s fun, too.
But Science Fiction also serves an important purpose: It prepares society for the future. What will happen when technology X becomes available? How will our work, social and emotional …
2010 is going to be the year of the ebook. If it wasn’t obvious before, it became so overnight after Apple entered the ebook reader and distribution market big time.
I’ve been eying ebook and ebook reader developments for some time and decided to become an ebook early …
This is the blog of Constantin Gonzalez, a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, with more than 25 years of IT experience.
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