Yes. Configuration Management Software Sucks. Horribly.
The main problem is that n-th order tweakability is preferred over convention It's just stupid. There are a core set of things that just about everybody needs to do. Those should be dead simple. Ready to uncomment and run. The set operating systems used …
more ...I haven't noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I've been running it since Beta 1. I've noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive. All around, plasma looks subtly better and my favorite KDE …
more ...If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin.
There is a New Year's SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked "grossly in the future". That is a problem since it is now 2010.
Run sa-update and restart SpamAssassin ASAP, or install the …
more ...DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the "Distributed Redundant Block Device", this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple nodes.
This is primarily useful in high availability …
more ...I'm happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4.
If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post "Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation Fun", you no longer need …
more ...This post details setting up your own private mirror of Fedora's repos. There are many ways to do this, but this method is by far the best for heavy usage. By using MirrorManager, clients in your IP range need no custom configuration. Roaming laptop users automagically hit your mirror …
more ...I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn't make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn't seem very interesting to me. But analyzing the sum of parts, I have to consider 2.6.30 a 'golden' kernel -- certainly …
more ...The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/475) is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing narrow-minded ideas such as DROPPING software paravirt or merging Xen as a whole into the kernel.
I use …
more ...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 …
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