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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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…
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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 [...]
At least that is the case for me. I’ve been suffering for a couple of months now under the iron-handed rule of Vista (Business 64-bit) at my work PC. At some point in time it must have seemed like a good idea to me. But I certainly can’t remember why. The problems I have encountered [...]
VI has been around for…. wel…. I think I wasn’t even born then. So a bloody long time ago but it still is an obstacle for most people to learn. But as with old things that never die (see Cobol & Co) it is still around and I think most IT eople will have to [...]
Most of us IT geeks have the dire need to have more than one MAC/PC on our desktop. Appart from the nice line of LCD’s starting to create a natural barrier to all around you, your desk gets cluttered by mice and keyboards. Hand-up who hasn’t had the problem of typing on a KBD while [...]
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