Could IBM be looking to lighten their workload and workforce by re-basing all of their OS offerings on top of Linux? A few weeks ago, IBM threatened patent infringement against Hercules, an S/390 emulator. This was very odd, both because IBM was breaking its patent pledge it made for Linux and because IBM itself...
Read more →They don’t make flash drives like they used to. I’ve seen several pfSense installs fail recently due to drives flaking out and the wear-leveling not working as advertised. Of course, you make regular backups of your config file, but in case you forgot, we can probably rescue your config file off of a disk...
Read more →There’s a problem when running two X-displays with MythTV – some events on the non-Myth screen will steal focus and then the MythTV controls will no longer respond. This thread describes the problem well, but is now closed for comments. Since then, mouse-switchscreen has been written, and solves the problem correctly. It’s possible to...
Read more →Redhat recently released a set of virtualized I/O devices for KVM, the kernel virtual machine. This short post will outline a method of converting a Windows Vista install (on KVM) to the new drivers using Virt-Manager. It has been tested on Fedora 11. Make sure Vista VM is up to date on patches and...
Read more →For folks who are running the current development, or soon-to-be-just-released Fedora 11, you might find Firefox to be very crashy. It’s not because it’s the semi-controversial 3.5b4 version (which is excellent), it’s because of a buggy library. I’m running it with the Tree Style Tab and NoScript extensions, and can get a crash half...
Read more →I recently had the power supply fail on my SOHO server, which was a mongrel of old parts, far too many USB cables, and was pretty darn slow. It was also very expensive to run, having a Pentium IV in it, the worst of Intel’s line. My goals for a new server were: *...
Read more →This is a neat enhancement to postfix for reducing spam by attacking its economics: making sure it speaks SMTP properly. A spammer gets paid by the message delivered. So, it’s in his interest to flood them out as quickly as possible. Because of this, they rarely implement mailers which negotiate the SMTP connection politely...
Read more →A Mac user might want to export his Keychain passwords and notes for several reasons – using a third-party password manager on Mac OS X, creating a time-resistant backup of passwords, printouts of passwords for the safe-deposit box or attorney, or switching to another operating system. There’s no easy way to do this. Keychain...
Read more →Here’s a technology idea: combine a solid-state flash drive, a synchronization engine, advanced virtual memory techniques, and a portable hardware abstraction layer to create a portable computer state device. The idea would be like this: you have a small hardware device that you bring with your anywhere. When you plug it into one of...
Read more →I’ve been using streaming video solutions more, since we pared back our satellite TV package at home and have been saving the Netflix allotment for the kids. But streaming performance has been lacking for me. I’ve frequently experienced and messages, and having streams just stop dead and freeze up. I wondered...
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