I started using Ubuntu in earnest with 8.04 and 10.04 will mark 2 years of using Ubuntu at my work desktop. I am a Mac fanboy but in the office I have the choice Windows 7….well that is about the only choice. I decided to go rouge and run Ubuntu way back when. It works [...]
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…. [...]
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 [...]
Now for the hopefully last of the steps to a happy HTPC Mac. So far all has gone well and nothing terrible happened. As I said in post 1 I got my first inspiration from here: http://www.osnews.com/story/21564/Building_a_Hackintosh_Apple_Can_t_Sue_You_ Basically the interesting part being able to use the standard OS install. I pretty much followed the instructions [...]
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 [...]
I wish all readers here a H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! May 2009 be a if not prosperous then certainly a joyful year. We will see major issues coming up in the year so it certainly won’t be boring. Will the financial crisis be over in 2009? [...]
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 [...]