Well, I’ve finally deployed some production Openfiler ESA 2.99.1 machines as home-brew iSCSI boxes, primarily used for backups or low-stress virtual storage. Yes, they’re great — my basic write speeds on a Core 2 Duo box (recycled Dell Precision 390 workstation with 2GB of RAM and a single 1TB drive *no* RAID):
I’m pretty happy with [...]
As a result of my frugality, I got my hands on an Adtran Atlas 550 to be used for partitioning a single PRI into two PRIs at my workplace. In addition to the partitioning, this system provides the added bonus of dynamic number substitution. What’s this mean for me? Substituting costly 411 directory service [...]
After deploying a few Shuttle KPC K45 systems for UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances using Untangle 5.42 and 6.00 I got tired of fussing with Shuttle’s MyKover JPEG template(s) and opted to create my own to-scale Word Document template. Feel free to [...]
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