Archive for September, 2008
Server upgrade
Well my trusty server has been having a bit of a harsh time recently - the disks keep dropping offline (both of them - even though they are different channels). Given that I am keen on network security, the fact that it only has one PCI slot was also an issue.
However the fact that [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2008 under My setup.
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BIOS defaults
Dear Dell (and other manufacturers),
If I buy a PC from you (such as a PowerEdge 2950). I’d really appreciate it if you didn’t:
turn virtualisation support off in the BIOS or removed it completely pending a BIOS upgrade (HP) turn off power management in the BIOS turn off snoop filtering (as this will have [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2008 under Work.
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Rip off merchants
PC world that is.
I’m just ordering some network cables as we are almost out at work and need some more. I’m also putting in a “test DMZ” as we have really vicious firewall rules (as they should be) to our main DMZ. We’d like to slacken these rules to test boxes, whilst still [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2008 under Life Rants.
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