Tom Adelstein has posted an article about why people use Linux. Although I tend to stick to the tech stuff, it was rather interesting. One could never imaging MS bashing wasn’t one of the major reasons… 🙂
I have had fun with Cacti, in the meanwhile. It is one mean graphing machine. Details, as well as other, most sought for information, in the future. When I get the time to arrange some of it into writing, and into public scripts.
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Hard freezes are unpleasant at best. They also prevent you from tracking the source of the problem. You speculate, based on the "familly" of applications you encounter problems with, and try to obtain some resolution. At first it was FireFox. I’ve removed it to install Galeon instead. Didn’t help. I left it at that, and…
This post is for the users of the great dm-multipath system in Linux, who encounter a major availability problem when attempting a resize of mpath devices (and their partitions), and find themselves scheduling a reboot. This documented is based on a document created by IBM called “Hot Resize Multipath Storage Volume on Linux with SVC”,…
I’ve been working, on and off, on an update to my Linux kernel, for the last few weeks. I’ve tried my best with 2.6.12.1 to 2.6.12.5, and although it was compiled correctly, it failed to boot. I don’t know why, but this same problem occurred on my desktop PC as well. Yesterday, finally, I was…
As my quest for a fully working laptop is advancing, I have decided to invest my time (or got drawn to it, donno why) in making the modem work. Actually, I’m stuck here. I cannot see the modem’s device in lspci, I have not isapnp devices whatsoever, so I cannot claime it’s an ISA device,…
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’ve been to our own little “August Penguin” just few days ago, and it wasn’t too good. I avoided the lectures (who needs secure rsync?!?), but sat and talked with friends about all kinda stuff. One of the advantages of such an event is that you get to meet lots of your linux-related friends, and…
