Hardware – Vassox

Ultimate Custom Home Router (Mini ThinkCentre M73)

March 30, 2019

Introduction: Scratch all this and install pfSense on ESXi* There are many guides on building home routers – too many. Most of them revolve…

Installing HP System Drivers on Centos 7 / Redhat RHEL

March 24, 2019

I have just installed my (old) HP Proliant ML350 G5 server with a CentOS minimal install. I couldn’t find a complete guide to installing…

Installing Centos 7 / RedHat RHEL on an HP ML350 G5, DL360 G5 w / CCISS Raid Controllers

February 27, 2019

Installing Centos 7 on an HP ML350 G5 (DL360 G5 as well) This post is getting an unusual amount of traffic…it seems that the…

Mounting Drives to Static Mount Point by UUID

February 15, 2019

I’ve found the simplest way to consistently mount a removable drive – in this case two external Seagate spinners, to a fixed path as…

Disabling File System Journal on Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019+

March 20, 2019

What is File System Journaling? File system journaling is extraneous metadata written to an NTFS partition. During bulk operations, or operations with a higher…

HP Proliant Integrated Management Log Viewer = ERROR “NO SYSTEM MANAGEMENT DRIVER IS LOADED”

April 9, 2019

If you have ever encountered this issue while executing the HP Integrated Log Viewer….one of two things are occurring. Either 1.) the driver actually…

Installing Hardware Sensors on Centos / RHEL

April 3, 2019

Setting up hardware sensors on Centos / RHEL is extremely simple and can be accomplished with one command. Installing server tools, such as those…

blkid Command Reference

February 26, 2019

The blkid program is the command-line interface to working with the libblkid library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem or swap)…

lsblk Command Reference

March 3, 2019

Description lsblk lists information about all or the specified block devices. The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem to gather information. The command prints…

Lenovo Q190 as a Home Router

February 16, 2019