Looking forward to LinuxWorld Expo SF 2007
Last year I was doing mobile development and there was interesting Linux-as-smartphone-OS stuff going on. Now I’m doing Ruby on Rails development and there’s interesting server grid stuff going on....
View ArticleUbuntu Linux 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” Upgrade Report
A few weeks ago I updated to the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. This is the 7.10 (meaning October 2007) release, called “Gutsy Gibbon”. I encountered a couple of serious issues early on, but now that...
View ArticleLeopard GUI Crashes – Not Parallels but Canon?
I had some serious Leopard stability problems recently. I thought I had found the problem but I was wrong then. This time I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten rid of all the badness. I’ve had almost 2 days of...
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Athlon64 3500+ to Opteron 175 upgrade notes
In short, gain with minimal pain, a couple of small hitches. I went single-core to dual-core with a drop-in replacement CPU and it was almost as easy as replacing the batteries in a flashlight. My main...
View ArticleCentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide
I’m working on a project that is deploying on CentOS 5.1, and I found it not entirely obvious how to install a really stripped down server, as a starting point for a lean and mean, hardened production...
View ArticleCentOS 5.3 Minimal VPS Install Guide
I just did this yesterday; you can pretty much just follow my CentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide. The differences are: When you get to the “More Minimizing” section, yum -C grouplist will show a...
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