Archive for September 17th, 2007

Windows network T&T

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Tried to connect to a server from Windows Explorer: VMHOST03\d$ to access the shares of the admin. Did not work immediately so did a recheck for ip: ipconfig/renew and a handy cmd line tool to convert FAT to NTFS: convert g: /FS:NTFS Tried to connect USB device to W2K3 server, connected ok but some tips: if device ...

RSS Reader

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Installed RSS Reader and included some feeds (tweakers.net, jroller,serverside,computable) to stay updated on the latest tech news.

Quality Assurance

Monday, September 17th, 2007

New to me, but interesting and important. {en:Quality_assurance}.

Monitoring SW of the Dr.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Some interesting sofware for server monitoring: Multi Router Traffic Grapher RRDtool all written by the Dr: Oetiker.

Moodle01 patch and configs

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Carlo configured and optimized the moodle01 server. Among others eaccelerator. Would be great if he documented all his changes. Good thing is that server seems to be more stable now.

Linux Virtual Server

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Continued from post Cluster on VMHost03 of 2007-09-11. Linux Virtual Server documentation and LVS.org and a HOWTO and a mini-HOWTO. ok, it's now more or less clear to me that you need more servers to setup a working load balancing cluster (2 application servers, 2 LVS load balancers and a database ...