Slashdot brought up a story called Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful, a note on a blog entry by Cuzimatter on his experiences, both good and bad, with Gentoo Linux. One of his assertions was that Gentoo was too risky for servers: The best way to keep a system stable is to get it working and […]
Gentoo On The Server Read Post »
Well, it’s a bit like spring cleaning, and while it did involve cleaning (mostly to dig for my Ruby on Rails book… did I lend this to anyone or has it been timewarped out of my office completely?), it was mostly about cleanup. I finally got around to installing the new monitor I got at
Setting up Auto-Backup for Digital Pictures In Linux Read Post »
As my computer friends may know, I’m always looking for eye candy. Back in the day I was using Enlightenment (come to think of it I think they are still at the same version number as back in 1999….. smirk), love theming, and if I see a nice looking font/icon theme/whatever I’ll happily grab it
A Few Days With XGL Read Post »
Some random desktop eye candy for ya’ll. Got my system running XGL, the latest and greatest in Linux eye candy, allowing all sorts of funky effects. Tonight I found a nice icon set, background, and compiz theme which I thought I’d show off. Yes, for ironic content I used the Vista theme (though it does
Some Desktop Eye Candy Read Post »
Here’s a quick tip from what I learned this morning. If you have a machine running linux and you can’t tell if you have two physical CPUs (SMP) or one physical CPU with Hyperthreading it’s a pain. As far as linux is concerned both show the same number of CPUs in top, /proc/cpuinfo, etc. However,
How To Tell if Your Machine is SMP or Hyperthreaded Read Post »
Myself, Wim, Dana, T&C went down this year for the annual Linux Fest Northwest held at Bellingham at the technical college. We started out with five people stuffed in a not bad car for 4, but it was only a 30 minute drive down, so it wasn’t all that bad. The first presentation we all
Bellingham Linux Fest 2006 Read Post »
I finally found a nice and simple way to slow down the thousands of SSH probes I get every day without changing the port number (though that’s only because I’m too lazy to remember to set the port number to connect to). This article on Using iptables to rate-limit incoming connections pretty much gives a
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A few days ago Frans Bouma asked if the (new?) WinFS delays were politics or incompetency, pointing to ReiserFS version 4 as an example of a fast, meta-data lovin’ next generation file system. ReiserFS version 4 has been developed and released while WinFS is keeps on getting delayed. Anyway, Robert Scoble linked to this and
Microsoft Doesn’t Understand (part 42) Read Post »
David Zeuthen made an interesting post to the fedora devel list about his adventures in booting Linux and some analysis. There are some nifty charts with what took how long as well.
Linux Boot Optimizations Read Post »
New 2.6.9 User Mode Linux patch is available which apparently fixes the Gentoo NPTL problems.