At the office, your IT guys probably back up your computer for you or force you to store critical files on a file server that they back up. I’ll write later about how the Institute does backup at a corporate level. The concern of this posting is backing up personal computers.
What are you [...]
The CCIM Institute is become just a little more virtual. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started replacing aging, single-use servers. Rather than buy another small box for each purpose, we’ve purchased a couple of fast, powerful Dell boxes, installed VMWare, and turned each into a host for several virtual servers.
Currently, we’ve put [...]
It’s been a fun weekend.
I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop to Windows Vista and my Dell home desktop to Fedora 8. Both upgrades were actually clean installs. Surprisingly (to me, at least), both went smoothly.
The key to the Vaio upgrade was reading the documentation Sony provided. They strongly recommend the “install as a [...]
Fedora 7 is out now, Fedora 5 just went into unspported mode, and it’s time to start rolling the Fedora 6 systems on to Fedora 7. For those how might not know about Fedora:
The Fedora Project is a collection of projects sponsored by Red Hat (http://redhat.com) and developed as a partnership between the [...]
