the difference that is no difference makes no difference
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 this […]
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)Â 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 […]
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