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Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 2
Okay, don’t laugh, but I’m really starting to believe in the “third time is the charm” saying. Episode 2 was going fine until last night when I left work. I had installed 10.1, skipped installing any of the XEN packages, updated 10.1, installed 10.3 and was in the process of letting it run over night…
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Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 1
So I’ve been preparing a test server for the past couple of days, so that I can test the Suse upgrade path from 10.1 to 10.3. I’ve got a spare Dell 2650 machine with a PERC3/i card and two 37 GB scsi drives in raid-1 configuration. To get the test going I installed SuSE 10.1…
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Hardy Heron is out…..
Heha…..Ubuntu’s newest release 8.04 LTS (aka. Hardy Heron) is out and ready for your consumption. This release is major in that it’s LTS. For those of you who don’t know LTS versions of Ubuntu are supported for 3 years for the desktop version and 5 years for server version. ALL FREE….so what are you waiting…
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And the battle continue….
Remember CDDB, the old database of CD’s that people built for people’s use. Well that dream got shot and killed when Gracenote, the company behind it, decided to close the platform and sell the data. It looks like private sector strikes again, big time. Sony has just announced that they bought Gracenote and their Database…
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Move over to Gmail…..
Lifehacker has a couple of great articles on how you too can cut those ties holding you back from Gmail heaven and move your Email accounts (and old Emails) to Gmail. So go ahead, head on over to Gmail, create an account, download this utility and start uploading your old Outlook/Outlook express/thunderbird mailboxes from your…
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Stream your Linux/Mac/Windows Desktop as video using VLC (Part II)
A lot of people seem to be having problems (issues) with the original way I had proposed here using command line. So, I figured I make it real simple and do a graphical tutorial with screen shots to boot :-). In this example we first deal with the server (running windows) at IP address 192.168.1.1,…
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Secure remote backups using Rsync…..
While the world was busy trying to figure out how to sync their palm pilots to Windows 98 (or was it 95) Andrew Tridgell was working on his thesis……Rsync. The endall-beall in the world of syncing. You see, if you’ve ever tried any syncing program before you’ll appreciate the ease with which rsync works. You’ll…
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And now a bit of Engineering brought to you by the letter E
As some of you might know I’ve been setting up my OTA (Over The Air) HDTV gear for the past couple of months and learning all about Antenna design, gain, amplification, directionality and such…..Lots of fun/confusing stuff. Well today I came across this article on digitalhome.ca that describes how a bunch of guys got together…
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Learn how to program your PS3
Thanks to MIT, you can now learn how to program your PS3, and any other Cell Processor based gadget. Prof. Saman Amarasinghe and Dr. Rodric Rabbah have put together a wonderful free course on Multicore Programming using the PS3’s Cell Processor. Course 6.189, Multicore Programming Primer: Learn and Compete in Programming the PLAYSTATION®3 Cell Processor…
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Open Source lovin’ for your Server….
Continuing with our coverage of “Free your Apps”, here is how you can free your Server (and workstation) of those expensive (usually useless) so-called Enterprise Applications. BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source server software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it,…