I took the VCP310 exam for VCP3 on 5 Oct 2009 and passed!  Here’s my thoughts on the test and how I prepared for it.

Historically, students and to a smaller degree faculty members, have requested server or other computing resources from the department to support projects or instruction.  In the past, the department was unable to satisfy these requests in a wholly satisfactory fashion.… Continue Reading →

Just for grins, I loaded XenServer the other day.  It was *REALLY* easy.  No big surprises, get the installers for XenServer and XenCenter.  Load XenServer on the server you are going to use for a hypervisor host.  Load XenCenter on… Continue Reading →

Windows 7 RC is out, and the official party line from Redmond is that you won’t be able to upgrade your January build 7000 beta in place (or any build prior to 7077 for that matter).  Bill wants you to… Continue Reading →

My new web site, www.Servers4Linux.com, is up and running.  This site is about how to use “industrial strength” server hardware for running Linux. Since I’m on a budget, I like the cheap stuff you can find used. There’s a lot… Continue Reading →

I’m fiddling with a install of MediaWiki on this server.  After I loaded it, I’ve been tweaking it.  I’m using the Help section to document the tweaks.  So far, I’ve figured out how to add a logo, require users to… Continue Reading →

Fedora 10 comes with a mediawiki rpm package.  It sort of works.  Here’s my (messy) notes on how to load MediaWiki on Fedora using the supplied mediawiki package.

Hurricane Electric (https://he.net) is my ISP and virtual host provider.  I like them.  I recently installed MediaWiki on my he.net server.  It actually was pretty easy, as he.net had pre-installed and pre-configured all the pre-requisites.  Here’s my notes on getting… Continue Reading →

I (Greg Porter) recently dumped XP as my home machine operating system.  The main reason I had XP was to play games, and now that new games require DirectX 10, which requires Vista, I said goodbye. So I went with… Continue Reading →

At Cal Poly, we’ve needed more storage in the lab for a while.  We recently got a Fibre Channel HP EVA 4100 disk array.  It’s pretty sweet.