opinion-and-editorial
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iPhone 3.0 is here, so is 3GS… still no single inbox view.
This is freaking ridiculous. Apple, why must you make us click out of our inbox just to go check another account? We have to click back a number of times just to go check another account? WTF is wrong with you guys. Blackberry has been doing this for years, every other smart phone out there…
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Subconjunctival hemorrhage aka Zombie Eyes
Today is day #11 after my eyes suffered what is technically known as Subconjunctival hemorrhage. In layman’s terms, the tiny blood vessels in my eyes burst, creating a pretty freaky zombie type of effect. On Saturday morning, eleven days ago I had really violent vomiting, and after 3 or four times of painful dry heaving,…
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Your Tax dollars at work… in an Empty airport
Check out this report about a teeny airport that gets Millions of dollars from OUR taxes for basically nothing! They sometimes average 20 passengers a day! Yet for each one of those, about $100.00 from your taxes pays for the running of the airlines to and from this airport. Unfreaking believable.
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Troubleshooting the kickstart file
My previous post about CentOS 5.3 ended up somewhat incomplete, and I wanted to finish up by showing how I did a little bit of troubleshooting to fix it. I now can install CentOS 5.3 64bit automagically just by selecting the entry from the PXEboot menu; Love it! There were two problems with the kickstart…
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Atlassian
Altassian is cool, I like this company. I regularly work with a lot of their products, namely: Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, Crowd & CrowdID. I’d love to try Bamboo, & Crucible but I haven’t had a need for it yet. I must admit that preparing a server for these applications may be daunting, especially if you…
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Adding CentOS 5.3 to PXE Boot
Getting Started I needed to add a CentOS 5.3 64bit to our pxeboot environment. Here are the steps I had to take to get this done. Get the DVD iso Mount the dvd somewhere on the system & copy the files to the proper location Create the TFTP supporting files Bonus: Get kickstart working for…
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Oracle VM manager
Virtualization is the next big thing in computing. I’ve been using VMware, Qemu, MS Virtual PC and a couple others for years, so it is obvious that virtualization isn’t new. I regularly work on OpenVZ environments where we run dozens of servers in one physical box, and in some cases we’ve been able to reduce…
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How did he know to put the part about the pursuit of happiness in there?
How did he know to put the part about the pursuit of happiness in there? Chris (Will Smith) in The Pursuit of Happyness asks himself the question. And it has struck a chord ever since. The word Happiness certainly seems out of place in such a formal document, yet he thought of it of dire…
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Multi Touch support for Linux, like the iPhone
Multi-touch support like the iPhone has been developed for Linux. The ENAC group in France has reported a proof of concept project that shows promising advances towards the development of iPhone-like multi-touch support for Linux. There’s a video that shows a demo of the work, the video shows some of thew swipes, two finger motions,…
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Confluence and Crowd Installation notes.
Another round of Atlassian applications installations, this time only Jira and Confluence with a Crowd backend for single sign on. We’ll start with Crowd and Confluence, check out the series to find the Jira notes. Here are the notes I made as I went through this round of installation. It should be much simpler than…