Wed, 16 Mar 2005
Using SANs and NAS review
I've just finished re-reading Using
SANs and NAS from O'Reilly. It's aged really well, provides an
excellent introduction to the common terms, principles and usages. Well
worth a read (and quite cheap these days).
You can now find the Using SANs and NAS book review on my main site or over at London PM.
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Posted: 2005/03/16 19:15 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
On the Reading Pile -- 20050315
I've just finished reading Using SANs and NAS by
O'Reilly, in short it's a great book for picking up the basic principles
behind both SANs, NAS and using fibre channel to connect them together. The
book doesn't really delve in to the technical details which means it's aged
pretty well.
Taking its place I have Cisco Routers for the Desperate which provides an quick and easy way to get up to speed on the basics of using Cisco routers. I'm not that far in yet but it's quite a useful, hands on read. I'm also paging through Forensic Discovery which, after only a couple of chapters, is proving to be a brilliant, thought provoking read.
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:28 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
New Debian Installer
I've spent a lot of time today installing Debian boxes and testing build
documents. After using both the old and new installers (Sarge installer
RC2) I've come to a bundle of conclusions. The new installer hides a lot
of the complexity from most users (use expert mode to get it back). It
has a better screen for per-partition options (although it does make you
do each one on a separate screen) and it flows a lot better.
On the downside we have the need to set each partitions options on a separate screen (I mentioned it twice as it's a pain), the lack of a "wipe all data but save partition table" option and, most importantly, in expert mode IT PROMPTS FOR PCCARD EVERY SECOND BLOODY SCREEN. And it drove me nuts. After asking me almost a dozen times about the PCCARD it then picked up that the machine wasn't a laptop and asked if it could remove the PCMCIA packages. GAH!
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:27 | /operatingsystems/linux/debian | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
CVSWeb, Easier Than you Think
Version control rocks, it allows you to roll back anything you're working
on to a previous version and remove all the late night weirdness you can't
remember adding. While it's hard to beat the power of the CVS command line
interface or the easy of use of TortoiseCVS there is a third option:
CVSWeb.
Written and maintained by FreeBSD people, CVSWeb provides an easy to use, web-based, interface to your CVS repositories. The install is simple, the frontend's easy to use and the cost is zero; so why ain't you using it?
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:20 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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