About 9 months ago I started a new project… Er, maybe even could call it a hack… A good hack. Tuesday, it was born.
I’d like to introduce the newest UNIX guy into my family… Meet my new Son, Dexter…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47643618@N00/sets/72157622188318531/
Born 9:28am on 9/8/9. 8 pounds, 14 ounces. 20 1/2 Inches.
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Been a little crazy lately…
September 10, 2009 – 9:40 am
A very sad day…
August 8, 2009 – 7:47 am
Today marks a very sad day. Last night, we experienced several extended power outages. I’m saddened to say that “Nattie”, my HP DL380 RedHat ES4 Server, finally lost power.
No, she is O.K. now, and is back up and running. I am saddened because this server had been up for 826 days and had been a [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate now Available.
April 21, 2009 – 7:12 pm
I’m a big fan of Ubuntu and I’m excited for the new 9.04 RC release. Keep in mind this is a “for testing only” release. Currently I run Ubuntu 8.10 for my main desktop in my home/office. I’m generally late to upgrade and prefer to play with new releases in a Virtual Environment (or, [...]
Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems
April 20, 2009 – 8:18 am
It’s all over the news… Unfortunately, I wondered away from keep track of this. The last time I was watching, IBM was considering it.
The press release confirms that Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems. I was a little surprised by the news, but not surprised by the move.
I think it’s a great move. I’ve worked with [...]
Xenix
April 16, 2009 – 5:04 pm
I remember my first modem. It was a Radio Shack/Tandy 300 Baud Manual Connect modem. I had purchased it on clearance at a local Radio Shack for $15. I brought it home and using the pinouts in the back of the manual for my VTECH Laser 128 Apple compatible computer, proceeded to wire-up a cable [...]
Firefox 3.0.7 Available
March 5, 2009 – 5:35 pm
Firefox 3.0.7 is available for Solaris according to BlogFinger.
Does anyone remember Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on Solaris Sparc around 1998 or so? It was neat running IE on a Sparc workstation and OE was great for reading USENET. It’s too bad Microsoft discontinued support for it. Fortunately, we now have a great browser called [...]
Linux.com domain sold
March 5, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Computer world reports that the domain Linux.com has been sold by SourceForge to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation has posted a press release with their intentions.
I’m still kicking myself for not going domain-registering-overboard back in the early 90’s registering all the big company domains before the big companies did.
Back in those days you could [...]
Xfce 4.6 has some nice new features
March 5, 2009 – 5:15 pm
Xfce, a popular lightweight desktop environment, has some nice new features in version 4.6 writes Arstechnica.
I’ve used Xfce many times — usually with VNC as the lightweight environment works much better over VNC than other “heavy” environments.
One-Third of Dell Netbooks running Linux
February 24, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Laptop Magazine reports that one third of Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9s that have been sold are running Linux. I’m still up in the air about what netbook I’m going to go with — but it will definitely be running Linux/UNIX.
I’d really like to see a Dell Latitude line of netbooks. Inspiron, to me, just screams [...]