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Web and mail server connectivity issues

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Not long after my FreeBSD file server at home was upgraded properly, my old web and mail server lost connection to the Internet. The server was unable to connect to the Internet (and vice versa) from yesterday evening until midday today. The cause was presumably a routing problem in the network ...

Upgraded my FreeBSD file server

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Upgrading a FreeBSD server should be less painful than putting a graphics card in a Windows server, unless there is a huge technical debt involved of course... At home I've been upgrading my three year old FreeBSD file server. I bought 3 new 500 gigabyte hard disk drives for a new ...

Solved problems installing a graphics card in a Windows 2003 Server

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

My computer troubles did not stop with the RAM failure on my laptop. The next issue was a server upgrade at work. We needed to put a graphics card into a server. (Don't ask why!) The HP ProLiant ML110 G5 server has a built-in Matrox G200e (with 8 megabytes of RAM) ...