Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Soon it will begin again…

My one year of absence is almost up… Soon I’ll be back with more geek-fu than you could ever imagine! Stay tuned… Comment on what you’d Like to see most

Google Wave Invites For My Loyal Readers!

Hey everyone, as I like to encourage people to read my blog, and thank them for showing me support i’m giving away some Google Wave invites. As I only have 8 of them… add a comment to this post responding to the topic “Why UNIX + Derivatives is better than Windows” and i’ll choose the [...]

VBareMetal The New CaptainGeek Bare-Metal Hypervisor Installer

Introducing VBareMetal! I’ve been very busy lately, here is one of my latest incarnations, a Virtualisation Linux Distribution, which you can use as a live-cd or a bare-metal installer, it is debian based with virtualbox. Everything configured out of the box. You can run Linux/BSD/Solaris/Windows/Other virtual machines on this distribution, even if your system does [...]

Blog Publicity

Hey guys this weekend I’ll try to write some cool how-to’s and things, But I’m running out of ideas heh, leave a comment on this post to let me know what you would like to see most, also if you could, could you all place a small link to my blog from your websites/blogs please [...]

New Name New Era for this Blog!

Hey everyone, i’ve changed the name of the blog to something a lot more generic… it makes it less personal for me and more geared towards bringing everyone the geekiest fun technolove! all in Web 2.0 :p I hope you enjoy the new place… its still got the same old bits + more! let me [...]

Multi-Homed Multi-Boxed ZFS Luns Using iSCSI

Recently i had a thought… Most of my machines are sitting redundant and have upto 4 drives in each… without unscrewing every single one of out of my rack… i want to utilise all of that space into one giant zpool using ZFS. Imagine combining the drive space resources of 10 computers into 1 giant [...]

Not Forgotten Still Here :)

Hey everyone, yet again I’m apologising for not keeping this blog up to date, rest assured there is good reason behind my absence and you’ll all see some cool tutorials, news and a great new service launching soon, so keep checking back and air your technolove!!!

Hurricane Electric Launch iPhone app, Gadgets + More

Hurricane Electric, the most reliable tunnel broker in my opinion have always provided ipv4 exhaustion statistics as found somewhere on this site! however, they’ve now launched an iPhone application and gadgets/widgets for google desktop and windows. From the email they sent me i quote: “We have just released a free iPhone App, Webpage Widget, and [...]

Problems, Updates, Projects & More!

So you’ve probably wondered why i went from posting 3 times a day to not posting at all. I’ve been pretty busy recently with exams, jobs, personal-issues and so on. Few bits of news regarding the project. I’ve moved house, therefor am going to migrate everything thats using UKERNA over to HE.NET purely as they [...]

Enabling VT-x (Virtualisation) Extensions on Sony Vaio Laptops

As you all know, i’m a big fan of virtualisation, however when i purchased my Sony Vaio VGN-FW31E the thing that highly disappointed me was that the VT-x extensions were disabled for the CPU, and there was no option in the BIOS to enable them, however i knew the CPU inside this laptop did indeed [...]