In our continuing adventures of putting the highly versatile Apple MacMini to work in all sorts of applications: A customer of ours has a specialized…
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We have customers that we provide support for both unix and windows based systems. We like put metrics for these systems into our cacti monitoring…
Leave a CommentWe have some devices in our server room in our office that due to the AC not running full blast on nights and Sundays, can…
Leave a CommentMany years ago, before there were Xserves, in an attempt to save rack space in our cabinets, we experimented with ripping the guts out of…
Leave a CommentIn our previous adventures with Mac Minis as “blade” servers, I thought we might try installing Ubuntu/Debian on an Intel MacMini and seeing how the…
Leave a CommentServer Monitor is an application that allows you to monitor the health of several Xserves over the network: Sometimes the application gets a bit cranky…
Leave a CommentI forgot that I had my 2GB MicroCenter USB flash drive in the pocket of my sweat pants and they got put into the wash…
Leave a CommentIn the past couple of months, we’ve started to see the IBM/Hitachi 180 GB drives that came with the Apple Hard drive modules for the…
3 CommentsIt has come to my attention that the thumbscrews on the front panel of Xserves are a very important component of the overall structural integrity…
Leave a CommentWas reading this article today on Google’s initiative to expand the economics of alternative energy: Google expands into alternative energy MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer…
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