I tried out unRAID last year as an alternative to VMWare vSphere because getting non-server hardware to work with vSphere is getting more difficult with each release. Now I know that unRAID’s bread and butter is functioning as a NAS, but in recent releases they’ve added a ton of features, one of them being VM hosting support via QEMU. One of the surprising features that led me to eventually pu ...
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Connecting a “Smart Switch” to a Smarter Switch
A couple months ago, a customer of mine was kind enough to donate some decommissioned Cisco Catalyst 3750G’s to me. I was happy to accept them as my test lab was growing in size and I had the need for multiple network segments. With the switches capable of doing Etherchannel, VLAN Trunking & Stacking I finally had a large-scale network infrastructure which in all honesty is probably overkill f ...
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Unmasking the Subnet
If you’ve connected a computer to the Internet, you’ve probably heard of an IP address. Most people, however, quickly gloss over IP’s little brother, the often forgotten and sorely misunderstood, Subnet Mask. You’ve seen him, but probably never knew his name. He usually looks like this.
While this is the Subnet Mask you’ll most often see, you may run into others that look very differ ...
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Awesome Linux Command-Line Tools – Network Edition
Here’s a list of Network tools for the Linux admin whose only resources are a keyboard, a terminal and whatever brains they can muster. No GUI’s here people. These are all tools I’ve found invaluable or at the very least, super cool to play with. Who hasn’t watched movies like The Net or Live Free or Die Hard and thought, “That’s awesome. I wanna do that.” Pwn with the terminal I mean, not ...
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Bluetooth & Triple Booting
Isn’t this supposed to be easy?
The Problem
Are you crazy like me and love to fit as many Operating Systems on one machine as possible in the rare case you need to test something out in Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time? Well, if you’re not, then this article is probably not for you. For the 5 people in the world who can relate, this read will solve a problem that’s bee ...
