To users that miss xorg.conf and complain about it
I get requests from users and see questions all the time for “where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?”, though it is usually a bit more of a flame. The quick answer… press Ctrl+Alt+F2...
View ArticleKernel developers don’t get Xen
The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/475) is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing...
View ArticleKernel 2.6.30 is a Go
I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn’t make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn’t seem very...
View ArticleMirroring Fedora
Introduction This post details setting up your own private mirror of Fedora’s repos. There are many ways to do this, but this method is by far the best for heavy usage. By using MirrorManager,...
View ArticleComputer e-Recycling (an I.T. WTF Odyssey)
Story Time: Computer e-Recycling an I.T. WTF Odyssey I had the displeasure of working at an erecycler several years ago. Even watching stuff come off the trucks, it was very hard to get anything before...
View ArticleXen 3.4.1 on RHEL/CentOS 5.4
I’m happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4. If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post “Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and...
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DRBD merged with kernel 2.6.33
DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the “Distributed Redundant Block Device”, this piece of code...
View Article2010 SpamAssasin Public Service Announcement
If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin. There is a New Year’s SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked “grossly in the future”. That is a problem since it is now...
View ArticleKDE SC 4.4 – Steady, Incremental Improvements
I haven’t noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I’ve been running it since Beta 1. I’ve noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much...
View ArticleConfiguration Management Software Sucks
Yes. Configuration Management Software Sucks. Horribly. The main problem is that n-th order tweakability is preferred over convention. It’s just stupid. There are a core set of things that just...
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