MacOS in a VM

A history of my personal computing hardware

I had a series of desktops and laptops between 1997 and 2005. I borrowed a Sony Vaio laptop for a while from a good friend, then purchased some older used ThinkPad, then a new Asus latop where I ran Linux. I made the …

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Dell H700 Administration Tool

it took me a few google searches to find it but I eventually found what I was looking over at ServerFault.Com.
Unfortunately the Dell OMSA Linux package only includes the .so libraries needed to query the LSI MegaSAS controller (aka, Dell H700) but no MegaCli binary. boooo.
Lucky for …

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Linux Tuning Reference Site

while looking for some network tuning info I used frequently on servers at my previous employer, I found fasterdata.es.net.

great site for quick kernel tuning reference.

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