Just FYI, my dear loyal readers 
– I’ve updated the Home Office site tonight! Enjoy!
Home Office page updated
Sunday, 22. January 2012ESXi DirectPath I/O problem
Saturday, 21. January 2012So I played with the ESXi server last night and for some reason I wanted to put the onboard USB controllers to PCI passthrough (DirectPath I/O). Bad idea! Read more.
Gateway & Weather Data Collector upgraded
Sunday, 15. January 2012In the last couple of days, I saw Debian having issues with the ext2 filesystem on the Gateway/Weather Data Collector box sometimes. I want this system to run as smooth as possible, so I bought (2) of these IDE 2GB SSDs (one for each Futro system). Read more.
Weather Station Online
Saturday, 14. January 2012On my last post, I have shown some photos of the new weather station. In the last week, I mounted the instruments to the shelter in the garden and created a dynamic web application. It was my goal to enable this on my home network, the web server is a Debian Linux, running on my home ESXi server. Read more.
Weather station & grabbing data via Linux
Tuesday, 3. January 2012Yesterday, I’ve written about the 2 Fujitsu-Siemens Futros that I plan to use in my network environment. Today, I received the weather station which (as always – but this time in a very good way) changes the way it will work in future. Read more.
↔ The Gateway Project – Hardware + a secret
Monday, 2. January 2012While moving all the eMail from one server to the other (my old server will be shut down by January 22nd – but this site is already on the new one), I received a package via UPS. Inside: 2x PCI-X Dual Port Intel cards. Yeah – PCI-X. I don’t have any PCI-X ports in one of my systems, but I was told it will work fine in a standard 3.3V PCI port 
Read more.
Anatomy of my ESXi server – Part II
Friday, 30. December 2011Every computer here in my office is not really a static construction. Some things quickly change – and it’s pretty hard to keep up with forum signatures for example A server should not be changed often – in this case, it was a minor software-based change – but with a very nice effect. Read more.
Blog moved
Thursday, 29. December 2011One of my current projects (and believe me – there are way too much for the spare few days of holidays) was to move my blog to a new server. Instead spending 50€ every month to an ISP with very poor service and ugly slow response times, I decided to book a “JiffyBox“. I’ve installed it today and I’m very impressed with the speed of it. Well – my blog is the first site which moved over – so: Welcome
Basement & ESXi Server photos
Thursday, 29. December 2011Yesterday, I’ve got the request to show the current state of my basement – to be more precise – he wants to see the current hardware Read more.
Benchmarks of the ESXi construction
Wednesday, 28. December 2011Theory is great, but if it works as planned – that is great stuff Here are some screenshots and a video of a benchmark. Read more.
