This year the Oceania CITCON was held in Wellington to my huge delight. It was a first attendance for me. I won’t go into detail about what was said and done because the website has a good Wiki where you can read-up on what went down. I hope all the scribes put up what they [...]
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 would [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Ubuntu 9.04 coming to a PC near you…soon
Today I spent half a day on an issue with JMeter. I do lots of HTTPS testing and on some of my new PC’s running Ubuntu 8.10 JMeter would only give me… java.net.SocketException: Unconnected sockets not implemented After a lot of searching I discovered that this seems to be an HTTPS change in the Java [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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,…).
Google has announced another new tool. It’s called Chrome and is a browser. Why on earth do we need another browser? If they’d do one for Android (their mobile platform) I’d understand – but for OSes?! They use Apple‘s WebKit as a base rendering engine and put some -admittedly good- fluff around it. But what [...]