A while back I set up a virtual kickstart network with VMware Fusion and Cobbler on my Mac. But Fusion (unlike VMware server/workstation) made tweaking low-level settings hard, so I’ve switched to VirtualBox, which is free (for non-commercial/eductional use), has a kick-ass command line interface and much better networking options. Here’s a revised howto. why? I’ll just [...]
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a FNGs eye view of Opensolaris
Today is OpenSolaris’ first birthday. What I’ve seen of it so far (reading docs and running SXCR for a few months) has been overwhelmingly good: dtrace is what $DEITY must’ve used to debug the universe zones give you the isolation and partitioning of Xen/VMware, without the hassle/licensing issues if you haven’t seen ZFS then you [...]
your search for enlightenment returned 25,343 hits
I’ve used DVORAK layouts since I got RSI. I chose a layout in xorg.conf, and any other users of the laptop would just think the keys were broken. You can change the console keyboard map, but usually only if you’re root. When I tried Ubuntu the other day, it came with GNOME it had really [...]
