OK so you have been kicking around an old NT machine for years, neigh, a decade. So what do you do with it? Realistically the machine has already sustained numerous failures, and it won’t make it through another one. We have all fought this battle. I personally fought this battle…
Gnome3: Disable Hot Corners
I sincerely hate Hot Corners in Gnome3. This article will walk you through disabling them, because you probably hate them as much as I do (you’re here right)… So firstly what are hot corners, and why do I hate them? Hot corners is the upper left hand corner of your…
iSCSI Initiator: OpenIndiana
Alot of my time is spent handling storage from the array side, however recently I had the need to test both sides of the process in order to perform some exclusionary tests against a fully adaptable environment, without impacting our production environments, so I ended up using OpenIndiana 151a on…
Adventures in ZFS: Configuring iSCSI Targets
The most critical thing about any storage implementation is flexibility. This means that you need to be able to adapt your solution to changing environmental considerations. The nice thing about a ZFS-based solution is that all of the building blocks are available. If you want to use it as a…
Adventures in ZFS: Storage Sizing
One of the most complex parts of storage in general and ZFS in particular is correctly assessing the amount and types of storage that you will need to meet your requirements. You can of course just purchase what you can afford and hope for the best. But after reading this…