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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Hi,
My book Learning FreeNAS is now available.
The book is guide to the FreeNAS software and teaches you how to turn a PC into a Network Attached Storage server.
This book will show you how to work with FreeNAS and set it up for your needs. You will learn how to configure and administer a FreeNAS server in a variety of networking scenarios. You will also learn how to plan and implement RAID on the server as well as how to use Storage Area Network technologies like iSCSI. The standard FreeNAS documentation walks you through the basic configuration, but this book will tell you exactly what you should do to plan, work, and deploy FreeNAS. This book has a comprehensive troubleshooting section that will point you in the right direction whenever you need help.
Also when you buy this book you are also supporting the FreeNAS Open Source project through Packt Publishing’s Open Source Project Royalty Scheme. In this scheme when Packt sell a book written on an Open Source project, they pay a royalty directly to that project. Therefore by purchasing this Learning FreeNAS book, Packt will have given some of the money received to the FreeNAS project.
You can get a free chapter to download and read in PDF format. Chapter 2 Preparing to Add FreeNAS to Your Network.
The PDF contains:
- My biography (as written in the book)
- A preview chapter from the book
- A synopsis of the book’s content
- Information on where to buy the book
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Hi,
To coincide with the release of my “Learning FreeNAS” book I have started a new website LearnFreeNAS.com.
It is a one stop site for tips, articles, tutorials and videos about FreeNAS the Open Source Network Attached Storage OS.
Go visit it!!! Please!!!
Gary
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
My latest article “Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros” has been published on Linux.com.
In the article I review the mini-distros DSL and PuppyLinux and also the full desktop distributions PendriveLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva Flash.
I also posted a comment/update with a quick look at Fedora 9 USB Live.
You can read the review here.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We’ll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Here we go…21 - 25
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A friend of mine and I have team up together to write some video projection software for use in churches during their worship times. The current most popular package costs over $400 and the freeware alternatives are lacking in several areas, so we are writing our own.
It isn’t complete yet but the link to the fledgling web site is: SundayWorship.NET
What this space!
Gary
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
MonoDevelop was recently released and I thought to try it on my CentOS 5 workstation… According to the Mono web site the prefered method for installing Mono on RedHat is to use yum. Once yum is installed, putting a mono.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d will allow you to install mono and related packages.
BUT this is for RHEL 4 not RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5)… If you try it you will get dependency errors. For CentOS 5 the best solution is to add the following mono.repo file to your /etc/yum.repos.d
[Mono]
name=Mono Stack (RHEL_5)
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
It works great!
I found the file at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
Gary
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Linux is being used to power PayPal’s entire electronic payment processing system.Their Linux system is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies. But know-it-all web user knows better, told to apply for job at PayPal.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I have had another article published by the folks over at Linux.com. This one is about using Swap Space with Linux. It has some techniques that may help you better manage swapping on Linux systems and get the best performance from the Linux swapping subsystem.
Read it here: Linux Swap Space
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I have started another blog over at tumblr.com, I only just found out about tumblr (I know, where have I been living under a rock) but I really like their interface!
Here is the URL: http://garysims.tumblr.com/
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
The BBC have reported that a British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Apparently this isn’t an insult because it was a teddy bear called Muhammad but rather that it is seen as an insult to Islam to attempt to make an image of the Prophet Muhammad.
The ironic thing is that it was the children in here class which voted for the name out of a list including Abdullah and Hassan. Twenty out of the 23 children chose Muhammad as their favourite name.
Can anyone with a rational mind imagine that Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was actually trying to make an image or icon of Muhammad!!!! I don’t.
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