Category Archives: linux

Creating EBS based Amazon EC2 instances

Posted on February 21, 2011 by kerneljack

So I had to create an Amazon EC2 instance quickly and ideally it had to be as plain a CentOS instance as possible. Now the first thought that I had was to find a way of creating one from scratch … Continue reading →

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Turn off the linux console display

Posted on July 1, 2010 by kerneljack

I needed a way to turn off the display on an old netbook that I am using as a low-powered server. I installed CentOS 5.5 on the netbook and set the ‘inittab’ to boot into console mode by default however … Continue reading →

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Creating a bootable USB stick with Centos 5.4

Posted on March 19, 2010 by kerneljack

OK, other people have also written about this, but the information seems to be cluttered all over the place in different forums or the CentOS wiki. The most straightforward way I found to do this is as follows. Credit for … Continue reading →

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UKUUG Spring Conference

Posted on April 2, 2008 by admin

I’m a member of the UKUUG, and I just came back from their Spring Conference, which was held in Birmingham this year. It was a great conference! I met lots of other Unix/Linux people and learned a lot simply by … Continue reading →

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Fix for strange white borders with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu

Posted on August 30, 2007 by kerneljack

I’ve just installed Compiz Fusion on my 3-year old ASUS laptop which is running Ubuntu Feisty. I’m quite pleased at how stable it is. I tried Beryl a few months ago and it was not usable at all on the … Continue reading →

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Links for June 3, 2007

Posted on June 3, 2007 by kerneljack

Fedora 7 is released!: I really liked the last Fedora release, but I believe it was slightly plagued by problems with some of it’s package management utilities. I have already installed this release and am quite impressed. Wireless now works … Continue reading →

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Some web links for today

Posted on May 17, 2007 by kerneljack

I’m going to occasionally post links here that I find particularly insightful, interesting or geeky. Three things that caught my interest today: PowerTOP: Released by Intel, this utility builds on work done by kernel developers to make the Linux kernel … Continue reading →

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GLLUG Meeting

Posted on November 12, 2006 by kerneljack

I helped out yesterday at the Greater London Linux Group’s meeting, held at my old alma mater, the University of Westminster in New Cavendish street. It was a blast going back after so many years, I met one of my … Continue reading →

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LinuxWorld 2006

Posted on October 26, 2006 by kerneljack

LinuxWorld started yesterday here in rainy London and I had a great time! It was the first time ever that I wasn’t a visitor, but was helping out at the Jokosher stand. I did several demos of the app to … Continue reading →

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