Category: Technology

Software RAID on Windows Professional

September 14, 2007 - Technology , Windows - by admin - No Comments

I was recently asked if it was possible to get software RAID functionality on Windows Professional. Although Microsoft would like you to believe otherwise, it is possible. By default, Windows 2000 and XP Professional offer RAID0 (Striping), but not any of the other RAID levels. We won’t go into the […]

MediaMultiWiki

September 4, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot […]

iSCSI

September 3, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the […]

Dell 1390 Wireless

September 2, 2007 - Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

My parents recently got a Dell Inspiron 6400, and asked for Kubuntu to be installed on it. This is all well and good until it comes to wireless support for this laptop. The 6400 uses the fairly recent Broadcom 4300 chipset, which is apparently well supported with ndiswrapper, but not […]

Windows Home Server

August 23, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Things that annoy Kyle , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently Linux-Watch.com ran an article on how to do the same job as Windows Home Server with Linux. It’s annoying that people, even those qualified enough to write articles on prominent websites, seem to fall victim to misunderstanding what various platforms offer.