Blue Gears

I recently upgraded my Fedora 12 Linux Machine on which I do development to the latest Kernel. After a reboot, I noticed the display went from my normal 1920×1080 down to 640×480. In addition, the monitor itself complained that this was not an optimum setting. I knew something was wrong, so I did the following:

• Went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded the latest drivers, mine were just a little old. After installing them, the problem was not solved.
• Logged in with the 640×480 resolution and ran gnome-display-properties and noticed it could not determine my monitor type.
• I searched the web some at this point and found two posts. Continue reading ‘Fedora 12 Upgrade Lead to 640×480 Display Resolution — Solution’ »

I was in the market for a new Laptop, given that mine is at least 3 years old and starting to show its age with non-working USB ports, one blown power supply, and failing batteries. My requirements are slightly above the average:

Any laptop must be able to run the following at the same time within a hosted virtualization solution such as VMware Workstation or Fusion.

• VMware vSphere ESX 4
• VMware vSphere ESX 4i
• VMware vCenter Server on Windows 2008
• Virtual Storage Appliance (I use OpenFiler at the moment)
• Firewall
• Development Environment for my security script Continue reading ‘Moving from Windows 7 to Mac OS Snow Leopard’ »

I was not able to get to my yard for 3 weeks so the grass was once more 4-5″ high and a bit damp from all the rain we had. My Neuton Power 6.3 mowed this down with no issues. The old Black & Decker CMM1000 in its heyday still would have taken 3 days to complete. While I took 2 days to finish everything with the Neuton Power it was not the lack of charge that slowed me down. But my own abilities to do everything in one day. Next time I fully expect to use just one battery charge for the entire yard. 1 charge got 3/4s of the field and the second battery wiped out the rest of the upper deck brush and the other half of the yard.  This included using the weed whacker attachment. I know it is hard to picture my yard but let me tell you this is a vast improvement and the yard looks much better now. Continue reading ‘Neuton Power — Still Positive’ »

I have documented my steps to go green within my small data center. But I have been going green with yard work for years as I have been using a battery powered mower for over 15 years.  But now I have found something much better and it will save me in charging costs moving forward. What is this? Neuton Power CE6.3 Lawn Mower.

Over 15 years ago, when I lived in Austin TX, Austin had a trade in program: Bring your gas mower in and we will give you a voucher to buy a brand new electric corded or battery mower. I took advantage of this and purchased a Black and Decker CMM1000 24 Volt lawn mower. It did yeoman work while it lasted even with all its problems. Continue reading ‘Neuton Power — Going Green with Yard Work’ »

I have had several Blue Gears blog sites and now have just this one. I have guest blogged at both ITworld and Cisco Subnet at NetworkWorld. While I would very much like to continue blogging at those locations, maintaining several blogs at the level required is a bit daunting, so I have centralized Blue Gears into just one blog moving forward.

I do not, at this time, plan on moving any of the content from these sites. However, any new material, will be posted to this centralized location and maintained within the Blog Roll Up within the Virtualization Wiki which is a companion to the Blue Gears blog.

Blue Gears will be my place for posting reviews of books, blogs, and other articles in the realm of virtualization, secure coding, forensics, and other topics. This is my home for things that do not fit the requirements of my other blogs: either too long, unrelated topic, or too technical.

Thanks to Jason Boche (http://boche.net/blog) for sending me his WordPress plugins as well as blogsecurity.net for showing me how to hopefully secure my blog.

Welcome to Blue Gears, enjoy reading.