Converting a VMware Fusion virtual machine to KVM
I’ve been running an instance of my Nagios XI monitor in a VMware Fusion virtual machine on my (aging) Mac Pro. The other day I found a blog post on How I converted a VMware VM to KVM and since my new LAN server is a beefy 8-core AMD FX-8120 with 32GB RAM (as opposed(…)
Software Update Service on OS X Lion Server
Software Update Service is part of OS X Lion server (and Mountain Lion server) that allows you to download OS updates and serve them to multiple clients on a local network (similar to Red Hat’s Satellite server, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). I’ve had to play with this because we’re bandwidth-restricted at the church, and(…)
USB3 benchmarks on Mac Pro
I recently purchased the HighPoint RocketU 1144AM PCI-E 2.0 x4 Quad-Port USB 3.0 Raid card for my Mac Pro. Since most external drives you buy these days are USB3, and the Mac Pro only has (and perhaps only every will have, if the rumour mill is true) USB2 ports, the only option I had for(…)
SSD Speed-ups on Mac Pro
I have an SSD in my Fedora workstation for my rq tool, specifically for the MySQL database. The speed increase there, because it was dealing with huge amounts of data, was very welcome — not so much for importing (speed there didn’t much increase since all the files being operated on were on the HDD),(…)
Figuring this git thing out
I’m a little old-school in that I like subversion. I’ve used subversion for years, and have had it as a big part of my workflow for a really really long time. Unfortunately, there’s this git thing popping up all over the place and I’m starting to feel dated. (It’s bad enough that my daughter turned(…)
Unwanted guest account in OS X 10.7.2
So I was thoroughly annoyed to find a guest account with a sandboxed Safari after I had setup iCloud on OS X 10.7.2. Turns out, this only appears when you have “Find My Mac” enabled, and it does make sense (how can your mac be found if no one is using it?). If you don’t(…)