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…
Suse, for some reason, has to be over-complicated. I don’t really know why, but the time required to perform simple tasks under Suse is longer than on any other Linux distro, and can be compared only to other legacy Unix systems I am familiar with. When it comes to a more complicated tasks, it gets…
I had a rough experience upgrading Edgy to Feisy. Hardware listing, for generations to come: Motherboard Abit IB9, including on-board IDE controller IT8211 with firmware 1.3.1.67 and no BIOS upgrade in the near future. Nvidia 7700 with 256MB RAM on PCIe Problems: 1. With IDE controller enabled in BIOS system hangs during startup. This is…
I have been extremely busy for the last few weeks and couldn’t find time to update my blog, so apologies are in place. I am sorry, and I will add later this week several tips and tricks about BASH scripting, which might save time and effort for those of you who use if for more…
This board is a tricky board. 4GB RAM and above behave in a weird manner in Linux. It appears that PCI 32bit mapping doesn’t work correctly under Linux. To allow Linux to work on this hardware without failure (such as kernel crush during startup), you must follow these three simple guidelines: 1. Spread the memory…
I’m in the process of installing VCS on two guest (virtual) Linux nodes, each using the following setup: 256MB RAM One local (Virtual) HDD, SCSI channel 0 Two shared (Virtual) HDDs, SCSI channel 1 Two NICs, one bridged, and one using /dev/vmnet2, a personal Virtual switch. The host (carrier) is a Pentium 3 800MHz, with…
