Archive for August, 2007

Has VMWare seen the writing on the wall?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

As seen here, VMWare is set to slash the pricing for VMWare ESX and VirtualCenter for the SME market - three copies of ESX and a limited copy of VirtualCenter, for the nice round price of $3k US - a significant price cut. This is hot on the heels of ...

NUT: Network UPS Tools

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

I was tweaking the UPS rules at a client's site, when I noticed that the base NUT configuration that we use didn't really do a hell of a lot. The example config files had some hints as to what were needed, but unless I missed something fundamental, didn't have the ...

“Useful” command line tools

Monday, August 20th, 2007

A coworker was doing some work on a server we're building up, and wanted to kill a bunch of processes. The killall binary wasn't installed for some reason (default etch install, probably just missing the package), but he found a killall5 binary instead. For those of you who don't know, killall5 ...