Thursday, January 27, 2011

LPI exam prep help for free...

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Like it or not, companies like certifications. Cert's help HR department figure out baseline skills. They make for an easy box to check ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Dell Poweredge, Latitude and Optiplex BIOS updates HOWTO for Fedora, CentOS and RHEL

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BIOS updates for us Linux types have not been very easy. It was often difficult enough when there was boot floppies to deal with. Now it see...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

RHEL or CentOS 5.x RPM sanity and not source installs

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I am a firm believer in package managers . What's there not to like? Dependency chains, package verification before installation, packag...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Archiving with tar & compresing with pbzip2 -- a great combination

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Creating a tar archive is not anything new or fancy. Heck, it's not even glamorous or exiting. But, if you need a ubiquitous all around ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Linux CentOS 5.5 + Xen 3.4.x and virt-manager 0.8.5

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Xen Hypervisor is a very powerful tool for any sysadmin. Loads of virtualization capability and free (GPL "free"). What's the...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Linux Centos 5.x on PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/e and Dell MD3000 followup

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Here is an update to a previous post that now includes a graph along with some additional quick tests. Even though the MD3000 line is getti...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Linux Centos 5.x on PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/e and Dell MD3000

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This is my second Dell MD3000 SAS setup pre-production test. For background and comparison, I resurrected the testing info from a very simil...