I get requests from users and see questions all the time for "where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?", though it is usually a bit more of a flame.
The quick answer... press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or similar to log into a TTY console, or …
more ...I've always been a fan of Palm hardware, and even had a soft spot for PalmOS until it was left to rot for so long.
Indeed, my Palm 800w is a fine piece of hardware even though it was quickly eclipsed by the Treo Pro, but Windows Mobile has been …
more ...I dream of a day where virtualization is pervasive.
Instead of thinking about services in terms of servers, CPUs or directly mapped resources, I should be able to to add virtual machines in terms of guaranteed throughput rate over a whole grid. Scaling out should be as easy as adding …
more ...RHEL 5 includes the now ancient Xen 3.0 hypervisior. A lot has been improved since then, especially in the current 3.3 release. Additionally, RedHat now owns the company behind KVM, so it is unlikely they will spend much time backporting Xen stuff for RHEL 5.3 or the …
more ...I just went through hell in a handbasket trying to get 802.3ad Link Aggregation set up on a Centos 5.2 Xen box. Setting up link aggregation itself isn't that bad - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces for a simple guide (after your managed switch is configd) - but what …
more ...Take a look at this Intel developer's blog:
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2008-12-07-13-35.cherry
The video shows a USB flash drive transfering video at 125MB/s! To give you an idea of this speed, it is likely more than your hard disk can put out which is probably around 80MB …
more ...I define retrocomputing [wikipedia] as the collecting and use of old computers. Why might one do this? Well, for one, enterprises cycle out machines fairly frequently. 2,3,4 and 5 year old systems are often sent out to scrappers in droves despite …
more ...Phoronix has been cranking out a slew of benchmarks recently, pitting various different Linux distros against each other and even different operating systems with their own automated test suite.
It seems I caught the wave of interest in Linux file systems. Here are some articles worth checking out: