Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 devel release. This is not recommended :) I wonder what will happen when 14.04 real is out.. *update: it is out now, so the "-d" in "update-manager -d" is no longer necessary? How to? Just run "update-manager -d" and click …

Finally got fed up with the Xperia Active (ST17i or satsuma) - couldn't update anything because all the space was used up and it was rebooting when I wasn't touching it. Solution? Install Cyanogenmod! Cyanogenmod's wiki has a good overview of how to get it installed. Basically you reinstall the operating …

Spoke a bit with some people in the Brocade stand at HP Discover in Barcelona. The open source / core http://www.vyatta.org/download will be kept, but could not get any commitment to what will happen to it or if they will update it. The 5400 (VSE, 6.6 …

Trying out Arch Linux on a Lenovo T400! First step after getting the T400 Dual Core Centrino 2.26GHz 4GB RAM: replace the 160GB spinning rust to a 120GB Samsung 840. Very easy to take out the old disk and put the new SSD in the carrier. https://wiki.archlinux …

https://command.io is up for public beta now. It is a page from where you can manage your servers online in a pretty web interface. It uses ssh - you need to allow commando.io's server to ssh into your server. You can specify with which user, which port and …

For training these I set up networks. Many. Drawing the networks first in LibreOffice Draw and then setting them up with virtual machine templates and LAN segments. The exam I took in October and because it was a beta exam the results aren't out until December :) The BCvRP has the …

Been checking out the Vyatta vRouter a bit closer. Mostly because of the BCvRE exam but I'm slowly starting to think there might be some benefits to using it elsewhere too. See vyatta-a-routervpnfirewall-in-a-vm-brocade-certified-vrouter-engineer/ for where to find manuals or training materials. See the objectives. I tried installing Vyatta vRouter 6 …

This post will be continuously updated with my short notes under each concept. It's not meant to be a replacement of the official training materials. I'm just starting out playing with the vRouter Core / open source version and installing it in a VM and set up some networks and firewalls …

Brocade has a beta exam up for BCVRE - Certified vRouter Engineer - which is on the Vyatta software from the company with the same name that Brocade bought last year. There is the free open source core. Download from here: http://vyatta.org/downloads (no you don't have to register). The …

Yay I passed the EX436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management ! https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html?certNumber=111-207-403&isSearch=False&verify=Verify