opinion-and-editorial
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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…
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Better Glossary?
Doh. I think I might have over-complicated the idea of a Glossary on WP. Why not create a page named Glossary, then create sub-pages for each term or definition? Then I can still let SEO smart links do the autolinking throughout the site. I think this should work and should be easier than my previous…
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Nic
The word “nic” is short for Network interface card, us in IT use the term mostly in casual and colloquial tech speak. I think it is preferred to call it a network card, or ethernet card when you use the term in writing. Nics have unique addresses, and these are called MAC addresses.
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Jira
JIRA is a proprietary enterprise software product, developed by Atlassian, commonly used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. JIRA is deployed within public open source projects and has over 12,000 customers in over 100 countries.[citation needed] JIRA is widely used as a way to manage bug tracking for many large scale open source…