Vex Star

1. Does anyone know, or know of a good explanation of, how to set up a L2TP VPN based on a Windows Server 2003 machine? I’m tired of dicking around with little metal boxes running proprietary OSes that are impossible to configure without a special training class offered by the manufacturer.
2. Why do IPSEC VPNs [...]

November 7th, 2008 | Tags: big seamless network, domain controller, encryption, Ethernet, firewall, hardware solution, Linux, little metal boxes, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, negotiating encryption, PKI, PPP encryption, Solaris, SSL, virtual network device, VPN, windows networking, Windows Server 2003 | Category: general | Leave a comment

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

October 8th, 2008 | Tags: BSD, Controller, data encryption, DDR2, dedicated RAID controller, Dell, discrete controller, driver, Ebay, EMC, FreeNAS, Fujitsu, home media server, integrated storage processor, Intel, Linux, linux engineer, LSI, Mac OS X, math co-processor, media storage, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, onboard raid solutions, OpenSolaris, operating system, operating systems, PCI, R, RAID, RAID controller, RAID driver, ram, SCSI, shittiest software-based implementations, software power outages, software raid, Solaris, storage management, Then media, Toms Hardware, typical software, USD, vs hardware, Western Digital, Windows Server, Windows Server 2k3 driver, x4, x4 card, XML, XP, Yeah | Category: general | Leave a comment

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

September 25th, 2008 | Tags: 64bit processor, Adobe, Aero, AIX, AMD, apache, ASP, bare bones services, diarrhea, domain controller, file/print services, GPU, horseshit software, Intel, large network, legacy systems, Linux, low-end hardware, Mac, Mac OS X, managed mail server, manager, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, Navy, Nvidia, online computer literacy test, operating system, Oracle, OSX, party applications, ram, SAP consultant, security software, shared memory, shitty software, shitty software development practices, software, software providers, software vendors, software works, Solaris, stupid software, Toshiba, UAC, ubid.com, Ubuntu, UNIX, USD, vista media, vista media center, web servers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, winxp media, winxp media center, writer, XP, XP pro | Category: general | Leave a comment

God, it pisses me off that Apple installed this shitty MobileMe software with their iTunes 7.7 update. If you have installed that, but haven’t noticed, it is sneakily installed with the latest version of iTunes. To uninstall it, go to Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features in Vista, then remove the Apple Mobile [...]

September 7th, 2008 | Tags: Apple iPod Nano Portable Audio Device, Apple iPod Touch Portable Audio Device, apple products, competiters software, crappy software, Dell, electronics vendors, EMC, HDS, HP, HPUX, India, installed windows media player, Internet Explorer, iPhone, iPod, iPod Service, king, legitimate technology, Linux, media player markets, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Device, MobileMe, MP3, OSX, Safari, Solaris, Sony, Sun Solaris, technology, then click tools, tight-knit software installation annoyances, UNIX, web browser, Xerox, Zune | Category: general | Comments (1)

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

September 6th, 2008 | Tags: Amazon, Anyone building, Arbor Networks, Cisco, Dan Kaminsky, distinct products, DNS, file sharing, firewall, Haha, head, history search, iChat, Internet Explorer, Internet Systems Consortium, iPhone, iPhone software, Limewire, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X, Mac OS X server, Mac store, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, niche product, on-the-up software, OSX, party software, poisoning, security researcher, software developers, software engineer, software engineering, software packages, Solaris, system logger, Ubuntu, win-based dns server, X server | Category: general | Leave a comment

I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]

August 29th, 2008 | Tags: Amazon, dbms, DNS, MySQL, Perl, Solaris, Ubuntu, USD, web application | Category: general | Leave a comment