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I was playing with some of the virtual machines running on my “hosted ESX” (ESX running as a guest vm on VMware Workstation 7, that’s two levels of virtualization, trying to gauge the responsiveness and network utilization of the Virtual Infrastructure. In one of the newly installed Centos guest, I fired up yum to update the [...] Marvell Semiconductor is shipping a hardware/software development kit suitable for always-on home automation devices and service gateways. Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs, Marvell says. Designed from the ground up to simplify the management of digital media assets, the Marvell plug computer [...] I opted to install Ubuntu 8.04 a.k.a Hardy Heron from scratch instead of upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 since I heavily customized my previous installation and I wanted to prevent conflicts. Since my home directory is on a separate partition, I copied a few config from /etc which I think are important and off I go reformatted and [...] Are you new to the wonderful world of Linux? Or are you looking for an easy way to get started? We’ll you’re lucky since TuxRadar made a complete 130-page Linux Starter Pack to get grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months.
According to TuxRadar, a sister site of the popular UK-based LinuxFormat [...] The UK chip company ARM is preparing to make its move into the netbook market. It has shown off a few prototype designs that really show off the benefits of using the ARM platform. Some of the major plus points of the ARM platform are passive cooling thereby eliminating the need for fans, Everybody is talking about iPhone nowadays, with its sleek and smooth UI. It is such a cool phone….but not perfect. Limited applications, no 3G, disappearing SMS are some of its shortcomings. Let Apple kink out the details and wait for the 2nd Gen, for now I’m eyeing for the Nokia N810. A nice companion for my [...] After experimenting with my Nokia E61 and putty, I just found out a better way to add the public key to remote servers. This assume that you’re using a linux box as a client. On your local computer, type: $ssh-keygen -t rsa Note: Just press “enter” for every question for truly passwordless login Generating public/private rsa key pair. had a hard time installing Gutsy on my W3J but my persistent paid off, I used the official driver from AMD/ATI and by using this easy to follow guide [...] I was reading my backlog mails including my PLUG subscription when I stumbled upon a topic that was discuss recently. Someone mentioned that a chain of popular grocery store in the Philippines had migrated to a Linux-based POS when their license agreement has expired. I remembered to have seen a Linux-based POS in one of chain [...] Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...] |
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