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Category Archives: operating systems
Creating EBS based Amazon EC2 instances
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
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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OpenBSD and PF
On the first day of the UKUUG Spring Conference I attended the OpenBSD and PF tutorial. I was asked to write a short review of that tutorial for the UKUUG newsletter. I’m posting what I wrote below: The superiority of … Continue reading →
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UKUUG Spring Conference
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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Links for June 3, 2007
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
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 →
GLLUG Meeting
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 →
Wierd Java error on my Mac
I turned my computer on today to get some work done, started Eclipse and started coding. When I tried to use the command-line though, I got this strange error: Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file) I couldn’t … Continue reading →
Apple’s Boot Camp – easily install XP on a Mac!
Wow this is unbelievable! Apple has officially released a public beta of Boot Camp which allows anyone to take a Windows XP CD and install it on a Intel Mac complete with dual-boot! I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere today … Continue reading →
Windows XP on a Mac!
The motherboard on my server died 2 weeks ago and it’s taken me this long to find a replacement and get the server up and running again. A benefit of changing the motherboard is that now the server is even … Continue reading →
Microsoft at the PDC
A lot of cool stuff has been coming out of Microsoft recently at the PDC. You can watch the webcast of the event here. Here is a short summary of some of the announcements, linking to a Channel 9 video … Continue reading →
WebOS and the future of the Web
[Jason Kottke](http://www.kottke.org) has an interesting write-up about how he envisions the future of the OS and the Web. The gist of his post can be summed up in the following points: 1. The OS can be made irrelevant by people … Continue reading →
Serious OSX exploit!
A very serious exploit has been discovered on OSX, and everyone using Safari or any other browser on OSX (even FireFox or IE) are urged to follow the instructions here so they can temporarily stop the exploit from working, at … Continue reading →
My Mac OSX Love-Hate relationship
I’ve been playing around a lot with Mac OSX recently and I must say I really love the system. OSX does a lot of things quite differently and that is why most people simply try to use it like Windows … Continue reading →
Old laptops and Linux
After being impressed with Mandrake Linux 9.1 as I wrote in the previous post, I decided to install it on my old Compaq laptop (an Armada 1592DT). This is a Pentium 233Mhz machine with 64MB of ram and a 3GB … Continue reading →