One thing that would be nice to have in linux LVM is the ability to take a snapshot of a logical volume, make some changes then ‘roll back’ to the state preserved in the snapshot. If you look at the current set of lv commands on most linux distros there is no such option to [...]
For some time now, my old Thinkpad T42 has been running as a lightweight server at home. Some people think I’m a bit mad using a laptop as a server, but my vague reasons are a) they’re generally quiet, b) they don’t use a heap of power, c) the battery is in some ways a [...]
My main linux box here is about 3 years old now. The case is older, but I bought the cpu, motherboard, graphics card and some of the ram when the first Core 2 Duo’s were announced. It was expensive at the time, but it was well worth it. I bought a 1.86GHz E6300 C2D (not [...]
I’d read about quite a few new features in the linux 2.6.31 kernel,so I thought I’d download the official source for 2.6.31 from kernel.org and build a custom kernel on my Debian Lenny 64 bit core2duo system. Thats the usual make-kpkg melarchy which takes an eternity.
It took me a while to get 2.6.31 to boot [...]
There are quite a lot of ways to get a remote graphical desktop when connecting to a unix system. X windows itself has always been a network based protocol, so if you had an X terminal or a PC running an X server, or even another unix system, you could always connect in that way. [...]
I’ve been setting up an ESXi system for a client recently, and I must admit there is a lot to like about ESXi. It pretty much works like it says in the brochure The client system is a proper Dell server type system and all the hardware is supported on ESXi (3.5u4 in [...]
I’ve had my Macbook almost one year now. When I bought it (an apple refurbished model), I noticed that a lot of keys didn’t register very well, and I ended up replacing the macbook keyboard. That second hand replacement keyboard has served me well for the past 10 months or so, but recently it’s started [...]
Warning; The discussion below relates to my attempts to use rsync to back up a directory on a MAC to a directory on a remote linux host. I never worked out how to get it to back up 100% of all the unusual metadata that MAC filesystems include, but it works well enough for my [...]
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has a great development environment using the built in jetty server, but the default setup is aimed at developing servlet style server-side programs. If you want your GWT client to simple do some GETs or POSTs to a CGI script somewhere, my initial thoughts were to use a different web server [...]
Well, after my excitement over KVM, I somehow found myself looking at vmware’s desktop products again (Workstation, Server, Player and Fusion). I use Fusion on my Macbook and it’s always worked great. I’ve never even had to consider trying to tweak anything to improve performance with Fusion. It’s always been great. Constrast that with running [...]