the difference that is no difference makes no difference
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 […]
KVM in this case is the linux ‘Kernel-based Virtual Machine’, not Keyboard/Video/Mouse. I’ve always been puzzled why you would name the new whiz bang virtualization technology for linux the same as a rather mundane piece of equipment found in most data centres. So I’ve been a big virtual machine user for many years. Mainly using […]
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 […]
Well, I recently decided to upgrade my Macbook to 4GB of RAM. I can get by with just 2GB, but I had an excuse to spend some money before March 31. Anyway, I thought I did the right thing. I bought some Hynix RAM. I keep reading forum posts about Apple using Hynix in most […]
I’m still working on this iphone game with a fellow iphone developer and another guy doing the graphics. As we get closer to release, I’m looking into how to implement an online top scores engine. It’s quite a complex problem. Here’s a few considerations Do you always submit the user’s score to an online server? […]
As part of my effort to practice ‘Gettings Things Done‘ I bought the Mailtags plugin for Mail.app. Of course, my GTD efforts are wavering a bit as the year progresses, but there are some things about Mailtags that are quite novel. A lot of people told me “You should get blahblah GTD app to do […]
I’ve been running OpenVZ now on my T42 for a few weeks now, and its all going well. Certainly no complaints. Basically the host is Debian Lenny and the two guests are also Debian Lenny; one as my asterisk server and the other is a small subversion server. Recently I had a problem with a […]
Just a quick tip. If you use more than one id_rsa key for sshing around the place, you can add the second key into your keychain with something like: ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/my_other_key Be careful if you have the macports version of openssh installed as well. The -K option is specific to Apple’s ssh-add. Dave Dribin’s […]
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