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 […]
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LearnFreeNAS.com Launched
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
My latest article: Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros
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.
Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 1
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 read more | digg story
New video projection software
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 […]
Installing Mono 1.9 on CentOS 5
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 […]
PayPal Says Linux Good; Know-it-all Web User Says Otherwise
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.read more | digg story
Article published: All about Linux Swap Space
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
Visionary or Lunatic?
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/
‘Muhammad’ teddy teacher arrested
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 […]