Category Archives: SysAdmin

The $1500 SAN: Part 1

Inspired by the folks over at Backblaze, who describe in this post how they build (pretty much from scratch, and with a breakdown of components and basic wiring diagram) their own Debian-based SAN devices to power their backup business, I’ve decided to try and build my own Linux-based iSCSI SAN device.

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RHEV for Servers 2.2 Administration Guide Notes

At my place of business we’re gearing up to deploy Redhat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers 2.2, and, as such, I had to read the Administration Guide. 200+ pages of technical information. Not the most entertaining read, but highly informative. If you also need to read it and have been putting it off, or just want to see what it’s all about, I’ve embedded my key-points notes (AdamD’s Notez™) so you can get a general idea of what it’s all about.

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Powershell: Convert Hex Groups to ASCII (Softalk Mail Server)

A friend came to me the other day asking if I knew how to convert hex strings to ASCII. For some backstory, the e-mail server they use at his workplace (Softalk Mail Server) wasn’t archiving e-mail properly, so he had …

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Powershell: Find Installed MSI’s on Remote Machines

As an admittedly lazy IT person I’m all about crafting ways to automate tasks, even if it requires a bit more forethought on the frontend. I had a request come up to do an “inventory” of who had a certain software package on our machines. This is what I eventually came up with.

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Static Content with Far-Future Expires Headers

An easy and efficient way to add far-future expiration tags to static content.

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