I was in the market for a new laptop and was planning on just going with the newer version of my current laptop. I have had a Lenovo t460s for a couple of years and have been generally happy with it with the exception of the low end graphics chipset. I looked into a t480… Read More »
I recently switched from Fedora to OpenSuse Leap on my home office PC. I’ve been a Fedora user for a couple of years but had primarily used SUSE for a long time prior to that. Purchasing a new M2 SSD for my PC gave me the chance to get back to my SUSE desktop roots… Read More »
Today I upgraded my home office PC from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26. The upgrade went smooth with the exception of the proprietary NVidia drivers for my GTX 1060 not working at 1st boot. A quick run of `akmods –force` fixed that issue. VMware Workstation was another thing all together. It wouldn’t start at all… Read More »
I was playing around with Monero crypto-currency mining this weekend and was able to easily get the CPU miner working on my Fedora 25 workstation. I wanted to use my GPU as well since I recently upgraded to an NVidia GTX 1060 and thought it’d be more efficient than CPU only mining. I only found… Read More »
Last week I set up a Satellite server in my home lab so I could test out deploying systems via kickstart. I wanted to kickstart the VM’s using DCHP and PXE but I didnt want the DHCP server running on my single flat internal network (I know, I know I just haven’t had time to… Read More »
Last night I was installing OpenStack Kilo using packstack via the instructions for CentOS 7 on RDO. I tried installing the stack using the following command, which should have resulted in a full OpenStack install on a single VM with the ability to configure external network access: packstack –allinone –provision-demo=n I ran into two separate… Read More »
This evening I updated Fedora 21 on my Thinkpad W510 laptop and the kernel upgrade brought the laptop to version 4.0.4. The previous 3.x kernel worked perfectly with my Nvidia drivers but installing the Nvidia drivers in the 4.0.4 kernel failed. I was unable to find anything online via Google or the Nvidia web site.… Read More »
As I previously wrote, I recently assembled a new workstation for the home lab that I will be using as both a Linux and ESXi host. I’ll be using it as an admin workstation while not traveling (Linux) and then leave it running as a hypervisor in my lab while I’m on the road (ESXi).… Read More »
I have been contemplating adding a 2nd NAS storage device to my home network for a while. I currently have a Netgear ReadyNAS 2100 system with 8 TB raw storage. The ReadyNAS works terrific but I have a few old hard drives laying around and I want to use them! I looked online and considered… Read More »
I always forget the exact commands to use when I have to burn a Linux ISO to a thumb drive on my MacBook Pro. I am burning a SuSE boot ISO in the example but this procedure should work for just about any ISO. These instructions work for me but remember, dd will erase EVERYTHING… Read More »