Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category

Syncing the Treo 650 with Bluetooth | Linux Journal

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

Syncing the Treo 650 with Bluetooth | Linux Journal
By Dovid Kopel on Thu, 2005-03-24 00:00.
The new Treo smartphone is GNU/Linux compatible and comes with Bluetooth connectivity–here’s how you can set it up for your network.

Debian Sarge on VMware

Monday, January 24th, 2005

Note to self. When installing Debian Sarge on VMware Workstation make sure to use IDE virtual disks not SCSI.

Plogit

Monday, January 10th, 2005

How cool is it that I am posting this wirelessly from my brand new Treo 650. Oh yeah baby. btw I can also manage my servers from it. No more laptop for me on road trips.

Thanks to lovely wife for putting up with my need of geeky toys.

Great tidbits from the web

Friday, November 7th, 2003

Ever wanted a really small font to save on screen space?

This is an excellent toolbar that Mike@Larkware pointed out. it has some great features and it is open source

If you have ever been an administrator of an IIS/ASP webserver this is something you dread

Here is a good visual monitoring app for *nix and windows

I soooo want a Athlon FX system like this one

And since I love WAP and Love RSS maybe I can build something like this on my own with help from this walkthrough

Disk Arrays

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

This is for my buddy James, he is looking at the Dell Powervault 650f.

Power Solutions is a great resource for info on Dell systems. You can subscribe for the quarterly magazines here. They also have Dell Insight a great info resource for general IT issues

Mobile access to Exchange 2003

Saturday, October 25th, 2003

Mobile Access in Exchange 2003

To help me keep track of all the new PDA’s

Ahhh the wonderful things you can do with RRDtool

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

The one and the only RRDtool

  • Cacti is one of the prettier network monitoring and graphing tools - plus it runs on MS
  • Oh here is a gallery of RRDTool uses.  This is an intresting one that tracks tickets in RequestTracker.
  • Here is an advanced implementation at Library consortium
  • I know Jason hopes that one day we will monitor our servers this well
  • Last but not least here are some frontends for RRDtool