Looking laboratory hardware virtualization

I am currently looking to buy some hardware, maybe two computers that I can serve to have a home lab to virtualize, test applications and various operating systems, ie testing with XenServer, Proxmox-VE, OpenVZ, VMware (why not ?), have my own lab migration from Microsoft services such as Exchange, Active Directory to OpenSource alternatives, perhaps … Read more

WebCam working with Java, jLabel, swing, opencv and javacv

These days I’ve been experimenting with java (though I’ve always tried to avoid it) due to a client request for a development project. Java development tools are not entirely ugly as I thought, in fact I found it very productive to develop here, quickly made a desktop application that connected to MySQL to query and … Read more

Installing CentOS in a proliant ml310e

This server has the distinction of coming with a RAID controller type: “Dinamic Smart Array B120i RAID in Embedded Slot” Which requires a proprietary driver from HP (very badly by the guys from HP driver not to make this part of the linux kernel), which is only available for RedHat (CentOS), Suse and Windows, if … Read more