the difference that is no difference makes no difference
I use linux a lot. Many professionals in the Unix world might play with linux on the desktop at home, and perhaps use linux on servers at work, but generally they’re not using linux on the desktop in the workplace. Windows still has that market wrapped up. However, I work from home a great deal […]
Having used Debian Sarge for a while, and just using the default versions of e2fsprogs, I got used to unmounting logical volumes in order to resize them. However, now that I’ve upgraded to Etch, I can now finally do online resizing (yeah, yeah, I know I could have compiled the newer e2fsprogs for sarge …). […]
Having recently installed Debian Etch, I was quite happy with the default Gnome setup … except for fonts in Iceweasel. There’s a tendency for some sites to use jagged bitmap fonts. I found the solution here. You just need to do the following: cp /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d fc-cache -vf I also installed the MS$ core fonts […]
When I first started out working with UNIX it was with HP-UX systems almost 15 years ago. HP-UX 9 came standard with a logical volume manager (LVM). Some years later I first started looking at linux and the standard partitioning scheme in linux seemed archaic. That was a long long time ago. I had always […]
If you do a google search on ‘linux dual monitors’ you’ll find a lot of forum discussions about this problematic issue. The thing is having two or more monitors has really caught on. The most common setup is a laptop with an extra monitor, but video cards often come with a DVI and VGA output […]
For a long time VMware was pretty much the only option for running Virtual machines on Linux and Windows. But this year, there seems to be a lot of alternatives. Parallels has been around for a year or two now, VirtualBox seemed to appear at the start of this year, Xen (or XenSource … or […]
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