Building our new house

As many of you know we are building our new house… I am uploading pictures with the progress of the building here: New House Check back from time to time to see any new pictures! Gary

Excerpt from my Book: Configuring storage in FreeNAS

Linux.com has published an excerpt from my book. The excerpt is called “Configuring storage in FreeNAS”… Here is an excerpt from the excerpt!!! The essence of the FreeNAS server is to provide storage that is easily accessible from the network. To this end, it is important to understand how FreeNAS handles hard disks and how […]

Thinking Aloud and Thinking Allowed; New Blog Started.

Ron Bailey has started a new blog called “Second Thoughts” which is really a place for him to dump his current thoughts and meditations… As he puts it “Was it Pooh Bear who said ‘sometime I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits…’? I think for me the priority would need to be reversed…’sometimes […]

OK, so I joined LinkedIn

I don’t normally go for these things, but I thought I would give this one a try… I joined LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garysims

FreeNAS promotional video

I’ve made a FreeNAS and Learning FreeNAS (my book) promotional video using Animoto.

My review of PC-BSD 7 published on Linux.com

I have written another article for Linux.com, this time about PC-BSD. Until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. I downloaded and installed it to see how it squares up to user-friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu. I […]

Orthopedic mattresses in the Brasov region of Romania

Some friends of mine here in Romania have launched a business and here is a shameless plug for their site. Saltele Ortopedice – Materflex The site is in Romanian, so don’t go there if you aren’t a Romanian speaker! Saltele is the Romanian word for matteress and this shop is the main website for a […]

Learning FreeNAS book “crammed with good information”

Utahcon, aka Adam Barrett, has reviewed my book Learning FreeNAS and he was impressed!!! He says “Overall I was really impressed with the amount of FreeNAS (and consiquently FreeBSD) they covered in only 200+ pages, but it was well laid out knowledge, and easy to understand.” You can read the full review here.

My OpenSolaris review on Linux.com

The folks over at Linux.com have published an article of mine about OpenSolaris. The review called OpenSolaris 2008.05 is robust and ready looks at installing OpenSolaris and well as looking at its unique features like ZFS. I hope you like it! Gary

A couple of great pictures

I got sent some pictures by email today and I thought I would share them with you! Courage Tired