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New WHS Server Build with ATOM 330 Dual Core

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So for some time now I have been thinking of moving to an ATOM setup for my server, mainly to reduce operating costs. I had been looking at the various Dual Core Atom board, but all of them seemed to be limited to 2GB Ram, and I was concerned this might not be enough for future requirements.
So I got myself on of these Point of View NVIDIA ION Mini ITX, and 4GB DDR2 800Mhz memory.

So my original plan was to replace my AMD ATHLON, 2GB RAM WHS Server, and my old knacker of an ESXi server with this new box running ESXi V4.0. However it turned out the outboard HardDisk controller isnt supported by ESXi. I might look at getting a new controller card that is supported at some point, so change of plans and install WHS with Power Pack 3 (W7 Supporting) and VMware Server.

ATOM-DUAL-CORE

All installed and running really well, and seems I can run 8 VM’s plus the host OS and it copes fine.

The most important bit is I have more power and have dropped my watts from 160 to 50 ish watts 🙂

Update: I had some issues with the server losing network connection when backing up, or having a lot of traffic put its way. The solution was to disable checksum offload and segmentation offload on the onboard NIC.

Information Security Day 6th August

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Promote the Information Security Day on the first thursday of August.

Information Security Day

Protection of information assets and the technology resources that support the business enterprise is very critical to the functioning of any business organization. Information System assets are always at risk from potential threats such as malicious or criminal actions, employee error, system failure, natural disaster, and lack of proper security infrastructure. Such events and situations could result in the damage to or loss of information resources, corruption or loss of data integrity, interruption business continuity, or compromise to confidentiality or privacy of end users of the information systems.
Information Security Day was started to spread the awareness of information security issues. Information Security, also known as Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) deals with the different aspects of information and its protection. Information Security Day aims at reducing the risk associated with the information systems by increasing the awareness of user community. The INFOSec Day aims at increasing the awareness in the following areas:
  • >> Understanding the various information system components
  • >> Security Management Principles
  • >> Risk Assessment, Sensitivity and Criticality
  • >> Disaster Recover and Emergency Procedures
  • >> Logical Security
  • >> Physical Security
  • >> Managerial Security Measures
The annual event is held around the world on the first thursday of August every year. If a local holiday co-incides with the Information Security Day, you can always re-arrage the date for your convenience.

The Hacker News Network set to return on Jan 11 2010.

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If your familiar with l0pht, your probably with the HNN from back in the day.

Last month (1st June 2009) there was a post on the l0pht website saying that The Hacker News Network would be returning. Well now the site is up and running, and there is a little teaser cast of there for you to get a flavour.

I am sure there will be some informative and entertaining news to look forward to.

Oh and this is blog post #100 W00t