It can be a real pain trying to find detailed hardware information in Linux when you don’t know what tools to use. I will try and outline a few tools that are typically pre-installed in many Linux distributions, as well as show you where to find information stored on your computer using the cat command [...]
Yes, the rumors are true; WordCamp Chicago is in the works! WordCamp Chicago has a blog, including a post stating that they are in the planning stages! The website is coming along nicely, from just a single post about planning just a few days ago, there is a FAQ, and links to Speakers, Sponsors, etc. [...]
1. I love military shows and movies. 2. I have several tattoo’s. 3. I am: Irish, Austrian, and a mix of many others? 4. I am a convert to Debian from Slackware. 5. I love street/drag racing. 6. I can’t stand the majority of society. 7. I would rather freeze than sweat. 8. I watch [...]
Well, I have finally caught up on work, sleep, and family time. I spent this past weekend at the Blog World Expo 2008 in Las Vegas! This was the second annual Blog World Expo, and my first time in attendance. I worked the ServerBeach booth with two of my coworkers, Charnell Pugsley and Leroy Bobadilla. [...]
The other day while working on my GPT article, I had noticed that there was alot of space being used with a clean partition and zero data on the drive. What is this about? So, I hit up Google. I found the following: The most likely reason is reserved space. When an ext2/3 file system [...]
I have run into an issue where I needed to boot off of a partition larger than 2 TB, which was created as a hardware RAID 5 array. Here is the problem, the partition end’s up being a GPT partition and you cannot boot off of a GPT partition. So, after carving out a decently [...]
After months of trying, I finally got my foot in the door at ServerBeach as a QA/Imprlementations Engineer! For those of you who are not familiar with ServerBeach, you can read about the company here. *forgot to publish this, I have been there for almost 2 months now!*
I have just found the holy grail of Linux Commands! Once again, my friend Charnell has given me an awesome link that will be a great help in the future! This site has the most complete and updated list of commands on linux.
[dailymotion id=x3dftj&v3] PEER 1 Growing Pains: Episode 1 The parent company of ServerBeach, a local tech company here in San Antonio by the name of PEER 1 has created a video series of a couple attempting to start their own business. These videos show a humorous yet realistic view of what could happen, the problems [...]
This email sent to Rep. John Lewis really peaked my interest this evening. I totally agree with the idea of drug testing welfare recipients, or any government aid for that matter. I know there would be people out there complaining that it would not be cost effective because of the cost of the actual urine [...]
