Category Archives: software

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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OpenBSD and PF

Posted on April 24, 2008 by admin

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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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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Such an insightful essay …

Posted on August 28, 2007 by kerneljack

Paul Graham has impressed me time and again with his stunning insight. Whenever I read his writings, it’s as if he plucked his ideas out from my own head and then put pen to paper. His latest, Holding a Program … 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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Wierd Java error on my Mac

Posted on October 16, 2006 by kerneljack

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 →

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WordPress finally supports WXR imports!

Posted on October 13, 2006 by kerneljack

I’ve been waiting for so long now to import my old WP blog from my old web server to this site. The problem has been that until now, wordpress.com blogs did not have an ‘Import Self-Hosted WordPress Blog’ option so … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 7, 2006 by kerneljack

“Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a … Continue reading →

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