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	<title>The professional blog of Christopher Randel &#187; System Architecture</title>
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		<title>ZFS RAID-Z partitioning efficiency</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/11/22/zfs-raid-z-partitioning-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally got around to setting up FreeNAS at home, and testing it out.
Overall so far, I&#8217;m very impressed. Tons of features. Where I&#8217;ve been a bit hung up is the mystical, magical ZFS.
I&#8217;ve been exploring just how it works, and I&#8217;ll try to explain it in simpler terms, and fail miserably.
Using ZFS, you create Virtual devices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using nginx to add SSL</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/08/21/using-nginx-to-add-ssl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rightous Hacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to lie, like every other network guy, I googled my way through this one.
nginx is one of my favorite new applications. I&#8217;ve been using it in a limited fashion to do proxying for websites from the internet DMZ to internal, secured network without poking more holes in the firewall architecture.
Let me note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare Server hits a wall.</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/05/19/vmware-server-hits-a-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[System:

Supermicro 6015P-8RB
Super Micro Low-Profile All-in-One Zero Channel RAID Card
1x Intel Xeon L5320 1.86GHz Quad-Core
4X 4GB FB-DIMM DDR2-667
 4x 146.8GB Cheetah ST3146855LC 15K Ultra 320 SCSI SCA 80 Pin in RAID-10
Windows Server 2003 X64 running VMWare Server 2.0
Running 12-16 Ubuntu/Redhat/FreeBSD/W2K3 instances

Problem: Adding additional instances make the server literally hit the wall for disk access. CPU and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Ultimate &#8211; First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/01/14/windows-7-ultimate-first-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, being that I feel like I work for a company that is cutting edge, so after reading some good initial reviews, I took the plunge and installed Windows 7. I picked up a Western Digital 640GB Black Edition Hard drive. Want a HD Tune? I suppose. A bit faster than my 6400AAKS
Not much difference.
So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working as a Network Admin at an ad-agency affords interesting opportunities.</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2008/10/10/working-as-a-network-admin-at-an-ad-agency-affords-interesting-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSD]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve been given a pretty unique opportunity to be able to shape an ad campaign for one of the clients my current company is doing work for.  This company is trying to get the word out about their solid-state disks, because really no-one knows they make them. They are actually a pretty decent product, though [...]]]></description>
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