Author: Jeffrey Hein

How to root the inWatch Z smart watch (Gain root level access), and install Google Play!

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InWatch Z Smartwatch aka inWatch Z2G This guide is written for the original inWatch Z that came with Andriod 4.2.2, and has the bone conductivity speaker. Not the later version (Z3G) that shipped with Android 4.4. These instructions may work with the later one, but I have not tested it. Chipset: MediaTek (MTK) MT6572 Why Read more about How to root the inWatch Z smart watch (Gain root level access), and install Google Play![…]

Best SAS 3 / SATA 3 6GB/s controller card. For Ubuntu Linux, FreeNAS, SmartOS. In the Dell Poweredge r710.

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  $70 on eBay! : https://goo.gl/B8j2HB https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/confused-about-that-lsi-card-join-the-crowd.11901/ http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-lsi-92xx-firmware-files/ IBM ServeRAID M1015 Part 4: Cross flashing to a LSI9211-8i in IT or IR mode

HP T620 VS Dell Wyse V10D Thinclient and the HP Elite 8000 ultra-slim

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20x Dell Wyse Z10D Dual core 1.65GHz 2GB http://www.arcy.com/wyz1re2gwt90.html$180/per Free shipping 20x HP T620 4GB, Quad core 1.5GHz https://www.nautilusnet.com$190/per + $190 s/h 20x HP Elite 8000 Ultra slim Dual 3GHz 4GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5YV20K0343 $150/per + Free shipping

Windows 10 VDI deployment: Architecture and Taxonomy

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  Virtual server mirror. Serving Windows 10 pro desktops to 20x thin clients. Mirror Server: 2x Dell r710 12 cores @ 3GHz, 64GB RAM, w/ Intel 2x 10GBE port and dual 850W Power Storage per server: 2x300GB SSD, 4x146GB SAS 15K, 2x1TB SAS 7.2K Software: M$ Windows 2012r2 Datacenter or Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Architecture: ~20x Read more about Windows 10 VDI deployment: Architecture and Taxonomy[…]

Create 2 mirrored VM servers using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

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Using CTDB and DNS roundrobin we can also have highly available and load balanced storage shares for our guest VMs. https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-glusterfs-with-a-replicated-volume-over-2-nodes-on-ubuntu-14.04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-redundant-storage-pool-using-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-servers https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-high-availability-through-ctdb/ https://jonarcher.info/2014/06/windows-cifs-fileshares-using-glusterfs-ctdb-highly-available-data/