My brother is a computer illiterate. He can use a computer for the purpose of e-mail messaging and for editing documents, spreadsheets, etc. I have decided to “abuse” his older laptop, an IBM X31 and install Ubuntu on it. This is some sort of an experiment. I wonder how he, a simple user, can cope…
I love it when I get an Engrish product. Their manuals, their texts – I just love it. This is the cover of a flash light I was given during the latest RedHat summit here in Israel. The interesting part is the text scanned above. I will quote (grammar and spelling mistakes are kept as…
I have been introduced to a very cool software/hardware combination yesterday. It has been, without exaggerating, one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. As you may know, x86 has an issue with scaling up. It’s that x86 architectures and price don’t justify scaling up to tenths and hundreds of CPUs. The…
While Linux vendors tend to maintain and publish the whole zone and daylight saving (DST) information, most legacy Unix vendors do not. Especially when it comes to such a small country such as Israel. The following solution was tested for HP-UX B.11.31, and would probably work for all 11i versions. Israel timezone is called IST….
I have moved to a new blog system. From Serendipity to WordPress. I hope this will be for the best. During the process of importing the blog’s content, most posts got into the “uncategorized” category. I am working on it. If you got here through some external links, you have probably got to the main…
It appears in some cases, for some pieces of software (anyone said “open source and poorly documented?”) that every installation has its own quirks and issues. It seems that following the same pattern is not always enough. It can be caused by the day you have selected to download and use the external component which…
