2015 Archives

Opera now supports Firefox tab switching shortcuts

When did this happen? Accidentally I pressed Ctrl + 1 in Opera, and guess what? It switched to the first tab! Hmm, how about Ctrl + PgUp? Yup, that works,…

noobient 2015-11-16No Comments

BSOD after installing Nvidia drivers

So you set up your brand new server (or desktop), everything’s fine. You apply all updates and stuff. Then you install the Nvidia drives and reboot. And bam, there you…

noobient 2015-11-11No Comments

Integrating Ubuntu with Active Directory

Update: please refer to Noobuntu – Enterprise Ubuntu development environment with Active Directory integration for up-to-date information. Prelude You can run, but you can’t hide, sooner or later it’ll knock…

noobient 2015-11-02No Comments

Storage Spaces vs. ZFS

Prelude It’s time for the big showdown! In this post I continue with my benchmark frenzy and after messing around with ZFS I put those SSDs to the test with…

noobient 2015-10-27No Comments

First Look at ZFS & FreeNAS

ZFS Before finalizing our SSD storage I really wanted to give ZFS, and more specifically, FreeNAS a go. ZFS is particularly interesting because of its awesome performance with its parity…

noobient 2015-10-24No Comments

iSCSI SAN with multiple NICs

Preface When you’re dealing with SSD storage, chances are, a single network interface is just not enough. No, not even 10GBE is. In fact, with our current 24 SSD array…

noobient 2015-10-24No Comments

Storage Spaces Performance Woes

So after being quite happy with the SSD performance of Storage Spaces, it turned worse. I realized this by accident, but now it seems persistent. After reboots, SS performance randomly…

noobient 2015-10-21No Comments