When ESXi says it requires 1gb of ram...

...it really means it!  I tried to install on a machine with 1gb of ram over the weekend.  No, I'm not planning on leaving it that way.  I just want to start with some prep and I'll be buying ram later. Turns out,…

Time to study

I need to start studying for and pass CVOICE in the next month or so in order to maintain one of my various Cisco Partner certs.  Hey didn't you know, I'm a Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist!  In order to keep it I need…

Red v. Blue

Followed a link on Instapundit this morning to Lilac Rose who talks about seeing the possibility of a Cold Civil War.  This isn't so much a war based on borders, although you could draw it that way.  The whole of the Northeast and California versus just…

Mosso rides

I think if you're seeing this you're viewing my blog on Mosso.  I'm very curious to know what everyone thinks of the performance.  I'm hoping to move some additional sites over here and at least one of them will put…

Another visual anomaly

As I said before, I'm just recording these in case it becomes a trend. I was just vacuuming of all things.  Walking past a dark brown cabinet, I came to the end of it and the far, narrow edge was at about a 45 degree angle in my…

A glitch in the Matrix

I don't normally write about this kind of stuff but it's one of those things that happens so infrequently that if I don't catalogue it I won't be able to trend it.  So... When I was waking up this morning and…

Please let this be cheap

Intel is showing off a really slick twist on the tablet PC at a conference this week.  Gizmodo has something about it here.  They are calling it the UrbanMax and to me it looks perfect!  I'm not sure the funny rounded edges look right but…

Unraid! It's on!

Yep, I've switched from Windows Server 2003 with RAID5 to Unraid.  I agonized over spending money on this but it really came down to one thing.  How difficult will it be to add incremental storage when I run out of the 2.25TB I currently have?…