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Wiping Transcend V15 USB stick

Lasse Osterild — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:49 +0000

Having purchased a Transcend V15 16GB USB stick for a router-on-a-stick project, I was horrified to find out that it came preinstalled with some proprietary Antivirus software which only works under Windows, to make matters worse, the USB stick reports … Continue reading →

Vyatta 6.1 now available

Lasse Osterild — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:32:11 +0000

The good people at Vyatta have announced the immediate availability of Vyatta version 6.1 (VC6.1) Vyatta Version 6.1 Highlights include: IPv6 Ready Vyatta Version 6.1 adds IPv6 BGP, IPv6 DCHP and IPv6 SNMP and this release completed IPv6 Forum IPv6 … Continue reading →

Installing XenServer Linux Guest Support

Lasse Osterild — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:58:39 +0000

It’s happend a number of times that I’ve had to install Citrix XenServer and have not had the Linux Guest Support CD with me, so I’ve later had to install it remotely, which is actually pretty easy. Transfer ISO file … Continue reading →

Parsing Ahsay OBS logfile timestamps

Lasse Osterild — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:41:43 +0000

All Ahsay OBS generated logfile timestamps use milliseconds since Unix epoch on January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT, it’s great for scripting and programming as it’s easy to do date math, but if you want to output a humanly readable date … Continue reading →

Building a 52TB SAS-2 ZFS array

Lasse Osterild — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:47:09 +0000

Storage can be very expensive, especially if you want a lot of it, want flexibility and expandability, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m currently in the process of putting together a new storage system, but because we’re strapped for … Continue reading →

Introduction to Vyatta

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:35:08 +0000

When you as company are strapped for cash but need a full featured, flexible and redundant firewall/router setup, what do you do? Vyatta! What is Vyatta? It’s best described using Vyatta’s own words, “The free community Vyatta Core software(VC) is … Continue reading →

Vyatta v6.1-2010.07.28 Beta

Lasse Osterild — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:43:23 +0000

The Vyatta project released VC6.1-2010.07.28 Beta a few days ago, besides a bunch of bug fixes it also contains a number of interesting new features. New in this release Stateful failover for NAT and firewall LLDP support QoS input interface … Continue reading →

OpenSolaris – The Illumos Project

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:23:10 +0000

Cross-posted from opensolaris.org A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we’re just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation … Continue reading →

Oracle Solaris support for non-Oracle x86 systems

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:04:24 +0000

Again contrary to what has been said in the past, Oracle now supports Solaris on non-Oracle x86 systems as long as it’s listed as certified in the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). You can find more information on http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/non-sun-x86-081976.html, including … Continue reading →

Dell and HP to certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:57:53 +0000

Finally some good news from Oracle, and a speck of hope that OpenSolaris will continue on the same path as before. On July 29th Oracle announced in a press release that HP and Dell will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, … Continue reading →