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 [...]
My core2duo linux box here has been running a software RAID1 swap and root for some time now. Basically /dev/md1 is the mirrored swap using the first gig of two drives, and the root partition is /dev/md2 using partition 2 on the same drives. It all works quite well. Recently I was doing some experiments [...]
I recently took on some work that involved creating a web frontend to some configuration data on a server. The configuration information was in an XML file, and essentially consisted of a list of server directories and various pieces of information related to each directory. The goal was to create some web frontend method of [...]
I haven’t had a lot of luck using usb hard drive enclosures with Linux. I have about three of them. And they have all ended up in the bottom of a box because basically they never worked reliably with linux. The usual scenario is; Buy cheap usb/ide enclosure Plug hard drive in Plug in to [...]
A few years back, if someone asked me “How much RAM do you need to run XP?” I’d probably say 256MB is fine, but 512MB will make things run great. That was a few years ago. Fast forward a few years, and well I only use Windows when I have to, usually in a virtual [...]
Just a quick snapshot of the past few weeks The north coast of NSW in Australia is rather nice at this time of year especially the beaches. Vista sucks. Per usual, you go on holiday and a friend or relative asks you to fix their computer. Computer #1 was a pretty high spec ASUS laptop [...]
So I bought an iphone. I’m not really the type that needs a smartphone, but I’d been reading all the hysteria about zillions to be made by selling apps on the Apple app store and being the type that is easily misled, I thought I’d have a go at this iphone development. Besides, I’d been [...]
I’ve been playing around with TV tuner cards, Tivo’s and general PVR funcionality for a while now. Here in NZ, the free to air channels have only quite recently started broadcasting in digital, so most of my devices are analog. The digital Free To Air stuff (called Freeview here just like the UK) is broadcast [...]