https://dmsimard.com/categories/rant/ Recent content in rant on System Administration, Hosting, Cloud and technologies in between Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dmsimard.com/2014/10/09/a-rant-about-supermicro-ipmi/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dmsimard.com/2014/10/09/a-rant-about-supermicro-ipmi/ Our OS installations are automated for the most part so we don’t need to use IPMI all that much if not for troubleshooting over the KVM virtual console or rebooting servers. However, I’ve had to use Supermicro’s IPMI a LOT in the last couple days… for a mix of good and bad reasons. I’ll let the video talk for itself. https://dmsimard.com/2014/01/07/from-chrome-to-opera/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dmsimard.com/2014/01/07/from-chrome-to-opera/ I’ve been using Google Chrome for a couple years, before that I was using Firefox 3. My main reason for switching over at the time was the huge difference in browsing speed. The resource usage of the browsers never really bothered me all that much because I upgraded my hardware frequently. So, anyway, when I heard that Opera was faster than Chrome - I had to take a look. I went a bit on the bleeding edge and tried Opera Next (version 19.