Ubuntu Linux is my trusty fellow at work. It is ideal for all those tasks I need to do. I have been running it from version 8.04 onwards. Now it is nearly time to upgrade again with 9.10 just around the corner. This will be another LTS release (Long Term Support). So here’s the countdown….
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As you might have noted yesterday my site went down.
What had happened was that I had tried an apt update/upgrade (something like automatic updates on Windows) on my Ubuntu 8.10 server. It didn’t go quite swimmingly. Nothing new because my installation was a little wonky anyway. But as I restarted the machine it [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 is just around the corner. The official Beta was launched today. Lots of new stuff. One thing fascinates me very much and that is the Amazon EC2 compatible cloud computing option (Eucalyptus). That has the potential of revolutionising the datacentre. Can’t wait to migrate one of our old 19″ boxes…
Other cool features are [...]
Continue reading about Ubuntu 9.04 coming to a PC near you…soon
I just have to blog about this. VirtualBox has just become awesome. The update 2.1 has added support for VMware images and it SO works! I didn’t think this would be so easy. Just create a new VM and mount the VMware vmdk. Done!
For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At work [...]
Just a gentle reminder that a new version of the truly great Sun virtualisation software’s out. It’s VirtualBox 2.1.0. The ChangeLog is here and there’s lots of important new stuff.
64-bit support on 32-bit guest OSes (not so hot for me)
3D support (getting warmer)
Better Windows (who cares?!) and Linux networking support doing away with the manual [...]
SSH is one of the staples when administrating *nix servers. One thing many people know but don’t use is that Blowfish SSH encryption is much faster than AES encryption. This comes in very handy if you are scp-ing large files or piping something over SSH.The speed difference is significant. It can be around 4-5x faster [...]
I updated my Ubuntu 8.04 work desktop yesterday to Ubuntu 8.10. I must admit it’s exciting pressing the button to upgrade. Being Windows “trained” for so many years you don’t trust anything that upgrades your system automagically. Well and after about 20 minutes it had….drumroll…..gone wrong.
The system complained about graphics xyz and only started on [...]
My favourite virtualization app has gone into another round. Get the new version 2.0 here. I’ve been on version 1.6 (Ubuntu 8.04.1) for a while now and must say it is a good and stable product for desktop virtualization. It works on all platforms (Mac, Linux, Solaris, Windows,…).
From previous posts you will know I’m a big fan of the VI editor. But….
vi has several really annoying “features” like using arrow keys when in edit mode. Anybody who’s done that will know what I mean. I’ve lived with that for years now and only today I find a small snippet that said “The [...]
After a long (LONG!!!!) battle I’ve finally managed to set-up my WordPress server. These are the first tentative steps. Bit by bit I will migrate the “old” RapidWeaver site to here. Currently the site is only visible under www.erlewein.de. The other sites (www.erlewein.org and www.erlewein.net) remain on the original blog. Once all work is done [...]