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My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »

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Fedora 14 on the ClarionMIND GPS

Friday, December 31st, 2010

About a year ago, I purchased a ClarionMIND GPS / Mobile Internet Device with the intention of using it as an in-car media device. At the time the device looked like it had a lot of potential. It had an Intel Atom processor, ran Linux (Midinux) and included a fair amount of applications for $99. [...]

RHEL6 on the HP Proliant MicroServer

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Needing additional storage in my home lab, and also wanting to buy myself a new toy, I recently purchased the HP Proliant MicroServer. Originally, I was looking at getting a HP MediaSmart Server EX495, but I didn’t want to hack up a box that wasn’t supported/certified to run Linux, nor did I want to build [...]