Category Archives: Linux
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
Biting the Hand That Feeds
Granted, I’m not a Groklaw junkie. Lawsuits are the epitome of bureaucratic boring and are not a creational activity. So, keep in mind that I only read the occasional major headlines from The SCO Group’s escapade in futility. It does … Continue reading
Computer Aided Government?
Random thought of the day… As most programmers, I see tendencies of over optimism in myself. Yet Mike Judge’s Idiocracy seems like a strange window into the future. Part of me thinks that government should include an open source heuristic … Continue reading
KDE SC 4.4 – Steady, Incremental Improvements
I haven’t noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I’ve been running it since Beta 1. I’ve noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive. All … Continue reading
2010 SpamAssasin Public Service Announcement
If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin. There is a New Year’s SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked “grossly in the future”. That is a problem since it is now … 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
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
Getting Beautiful Fonts in Gentoo Linux
Here’s my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort. USE Flags Enable the following USE flags: euse –enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts and make sure everything is built with them enabled: emerge -uDNa … Continue reading
boo2pdf Update
I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes. Unfortunately, IBM’s “transmogrifier” utility doesn’t work very well in Wine, so you should … 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