For several months now I’ve been planning to virtualize my home server. That’s the server hosting this blog, among other things. For starters it would give me some more room to test different applications on separate operating system, but without the hassle of dealing with several physical computers. One of my ideas is to test [...]
Last night we did some upgrades on a system in our datacenter. Among other things moving a few services from physical computers to virtual ones. One of these new machines needed contact with three different physical networks, and even more subnets. If you don’t want to read about my whole example network, skip to the [...]
Since I got my new Lenovo ThinkPad X61, I have discovered that the CPU fan is behaving rather differently than the one I have in my IBM ThinkPad X31. That is the fan makes a lot more noise when idle on the X61. For the record. I’m running Ubunty Hardy (8.04) on the X61 and [...]
As I mentioned in my last post I had some minor problems with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and hibernation. It didn’t always work. However it now seems like I might have overcome this problem. At first I thought it might had something to do with my docking station. Hibernating while docked, booting up while not and [...]
A few days a go I ordered a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 with 2GB memory option, X6 UltraBase docking station and an optical drive. It arrived the very next day, on a friday, so you can imagine the impact this had on my weekend. To be fair, the laptop isn’t exactly mine. It belongs to my [...]