One thing I don’t like in Leopard is the 3d glass dock, I tried switching it to the 2d dock but I didn’t really like that.  On Tiger I had a transparent dock and found a way to get that again.
You need to go into the /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock folder and right click on Dock and […]

I recently got around to installing Server 2008 on ESX again, I had installed an earlier build before and had to do a number of things to get it installed (load drivers during setup etc). 
 

 
Build 6001 installed fine, the only catch I had was I initially set the type to Windows 2003 Enterprise […]

One of the things I really like about NetApp is the fact that they have an ONTAP simulator, which is surprisingly powerful. I have used it a lot in the past for POC testing. I use it in VMware Workstation 6 with a minimal Debian install (no GUI). After installing the simulator […]

Dell announced Monday plans to buy IP storage-area network vendor, EqualLogic for $US1.4 billion, strengthening an already booming part of Dell’s business.
The news of the planned deal comes just a week after CEO, Michael Dell hinted the company could be in the market for some bigger-than-usual acquisitions.
EqualLogic, formed in 2001, sells iSCSI storage appliances and […]

One of the new features of Leopard is Time Machine a feature that automatically backs up your Mac. The main thing I didn’t like about it is that I have 2+ TB of disk space on my file server, and only a 250 gb USB drive connected to my Mac, using Time Machine the […]

Being a NetApp partner, generally every ESX installation I do is backed by NetApp storage.  I had been looking for an open source package that I could run on ESX to monitor the ESX server as well as NetApp storage appliances.
I started out using unnoc, and it seems to do what I am after.  […]