With the launch of FreeBSD 9, I was curious to learn how the VirtIO driver performed. I’ve seen a significant boost in disk performance, but how about the network driver?...

Some time ago, I wrote about how to use Virtio with FreeBSD 8.2. As I pointed out in the article, the performance was not nearly as good in FreeBSD 8.2...

You’ve probably already noticed that I’ve used ZoneMinder a bit. I published a few blog-posts on how to set up ZoneMinder, and even posted full virtual appliance for ZoneMinder.

I’ve been using MongoDB now for some time in production. It’s great, and I really love how easy it is to set up and scale with replica sets etc.

Yesterday I decided that it’s about time to learn Puppet. I’ve had my eye on both Puppet and Chef for some time now. Yesterday after reading this Quora-thread and this...

It’s always fun when magazines ask you for your advise. In the December-issue of Computerworld, I was interviewed by Bob Scheier in the cover story and talked about how to...

If you’ve ever tried to install ImageMagick on FreeBSD, you’ve probably run into this issue too. You have a head-less box in some datacenter, you don’t want to bloat the...

In the past few years, virtualization has been the big topic everybody keeps talking about. There are good reasons for that, but one thing that really annoys me as a...

Last weekend I was staying at a Holiday Inn in the UK. As most geeks, one of the first thing I did after checking in was to hop on the...

Is it possible that Facebook know more about how many visitors a given website has than Alexa or Hitwise? I’m not talking about people sharing a link on Facebook and...