Category Archives: Hardware
Sun/Oracle Ultra 27 Workstation Discontinued?
I just noticed that the Sun/Oracle Ultra 27 is no longer listed on the Desktops section of Oracles products page. This is a shame because I’m quite pleased with mine. This sends a couple of messages: Oracle doesn’t think Solaris/OpenSolaris … Continue reading
Sun Ultra 27 Review – The Ultimate Linux Workstation
Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce … Continue reading
Video of Windows 7 Black Screen of Death
Here’s a video to accompany my previous blog post Windows 7 has definite backlight problems (”Black Screen of Death”). As mentioned before, I cannot reproduce this in Arch Linux. The problem began after a recent “Patch Tuesday”. Microsoft has been … Continue reading
Windows 7 has definite backlight problems (“Black Screen of Death”)
There is definitely a problem in Windows 7 RTM with the “Black Screen of Death” despite MS propaganda stating otherwise. This one has nothing to do with 3rd party antivirus software. The particular problem I am having and see lots … Continue reading
DRBD merged with kernel 2.6.33
DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the “Distributed Redundant Block Device”, this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple … Continue reading
Xen 3.4.1 on RHEL/CentOS 5.4
I’m happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4. If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post “Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation … Continue reading
Announcing boo2pdf
I’ve just uploaded a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app & web service. I’m currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF backends and would like feedback with book files I haven’t tried. Once the code is … Continue reading
Mobile phones spur cross-platform applications. Open Source is mainstream.
I had an interesting day today. At school, we had a social event with an industry governing board and several local software companies in the Charleston, South Carolina region. Aside from meeting a lot of new people, I was able … Continue reading
Computer e-Recycling (an I.T. WTF Odyssey)
Story Time: Computer e-Recycling an I.T. WTF Odyssey I had the displeasure of working at an erecycler several years ago. Even watching stuff come off the trucks, it was very hard to get anything before it was utterly destroyed by … Continue reading
To users that miss xorg.conf and complain about it
I get requests from users and see questions all the time for “where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?”, though it is usually a bit more of a flame. The quick answer… press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or similar … Continue reading