Metisse project

May 22nd, 2007 by Alexander Mamchenkov

Found one (hopefully) nice project for desktop improvements under Linux: Metisse. In is a nice thing to be used along with Beryl or Compiz. See it in action in this video while I will try to install it on my laptop, check it and write some more here later on.

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pfSense Firewall

May 21st, 2007 by Alexander Mamchenkov

Just read a nice article about PC based opensource firewall which was mostly based on Smoothwall, M0n0wall and pfSense. Being a user of pfSense for almost a year now and I totally agree with the author about pfSense being one of the best alternatives to go with. From my side I can only add that I have 5 pfSense based firewalls in different places and I didn’t had any problems with them yet.

If you are interested in the topic and/or looking for PC based firewalls, check the article to get some really true points.

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Acronis Universal Restore

May 9th, 2007 by Alexander Mamchenkov

In my previous post I was talking about Acronis and I have mentioned that I will try to test the Universal Restore which can restore the backup images on a different (from original) hardware. Now I can tell that it really works great. I managed to restore a Win Srv 2k3 image taken from HP Proliant 110 to some old HP workstation (even P3, not 4). I really like this. I have a number of scenarios for usage:

1. Restoring images on temporary hardware in case the original one went off completely and there is no way to get replacement fast.

2. Migration of old servers to new hardware (this is the original idea why I start playing around the whole thing).

If anyone have any other ideas on a use, share here :)

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