Dedicated Virtualbox Host
A while back I posted about Building first desktop from scratch. In it I mentioned installing Xenserver. I have no doubt that it is amazing. Just wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. Long story cut extremely short, I went with virtualbox. Reasons being: Its fast, so far has supported everything I throw at it, stable, cross platform, live migration, snapshots make backup easy, easy to use, and I like it.
Monitor Repair
A few days ago I found a 22" Lcd screen that was being tossed out because it didn’t work. The thought of the beauty being thrown away didn’t set well with me. So I picked it up. Before messing with it. When turning it on, it would show its gateway logo and then go blank. Which was a good sign. But none of the inputs worked. So I took it apart.
Building first desktop from scratch
Most of my childhood I have built computers. But it was always from parts laying around. A motherboard/CPU from here, case from another one etc. I finally saved up and planned out my own build from scratch. I’m posting to my blog because its a geeky milestone that every little geek must go through. A rite of passage if you will. I ran into a couple of problems along the way. A case/power supply combo I ordered online was a dud! I sent it …