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Merry Christmas
For those who read my blog, I want to wish a Merry Christmas. It always gives me great joy to remember the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Not only does Jesus' life impact so many, but it was his death that payed the price of my sin. I am one of those who believe that he took my spot as a scapegoat for my sin. I have placed my trust in him alone for …
Switching from Active Directory to Samba4
Active Directory is solid, secure, and stable platform for user, group, and computer management. I would go as far and say that it is probably the backbone of 99.9% of all organizations world wide. So why would anyone want to switch away from Active Directory? The answer to that question is varied, but the most common reason why are:
- R… Read more →
Converting Debian/Ubuntu to oVirt
oVirt 3.6 will have a better way to import virtual machines. In the mean time, here is the best method for getting an already made ova into oVirt. The example I am using is the open source log analyzer - graylog.
A prerequisite is the script located at Read more →
Converting VMs for oVirt
Read more →My existing Hyper-V infrastructure consisted of Windows, a few CentOS, and Debian/Ubuntu guests. The best method I found to importing into oVirt was using the virt-p2v disc. This required down time of the server (approx 3 hours per 100GB on gigabit backbone) and a dedicated Fedora o…
Planning the Deployment of oVirt
Read more →After I played with oVirt I needed to do several items:
- Migrate the oVirt engine to a new host
- Migrate the storage from a single NFS share to GlusterFS
- Move my VMs from Hyper-V to oVirt
- Test my setup
Migrate the oVirt Engine to a new host
This…
Switching from Hyper-V to oVirt
Read more →For quite some time I have heard that Hyper-V was a low player when it came to virtualization. It came with Windows and was the hypervisor of choice, but it had its limitations. In my environment, we had local storage and no clustering of hosts and consequently no high availability or fail over. This brought the first pain point - we need high avai…
Why I can't vote for Hillary Clinton
Read more →We live in the year 2016 - anyone who does not know how to use basic computer functionality (such as email, using a word processor, decyphering between a spreadsheet and database, etc.) should not be allowed to hold public office. Why? Here is my main reason:
One who does not understand technology will not make the right decision when it com…
Paying for Open Source
Read more →While Open Source software is free to download, use, and depending on the license, free to distribute, it is not free to creator. The Open Source creators have to pay for hosting, branding (domain, etc.), coding (in time), and distribution. While some are offloading the costs by hosting the project on Open Source aware distribution channels such as…
Switching to Wordpress
I have completed the migration of my blog to Wordpress. The reasons for the change are very simple:
- I was spending 45 minutes extra just to post 1 web page
- I wanted to post to Google+ for every post I make - the service I was using only allowed for twitter.
- I wanted an easier way to manage my RSS feed.
- I want… Read more →
USB Key Start
Read more →Back in the good 'ole days of floppy drives, I used to install
grubonto one. I would use it like a key to my computer and take it out if I did not want anyone using my computer when I was not around. Today, we use LUKS encryption to keep unwanted users out. Oncegrubbecame too big to fit on floppy drives (and floppy driv…