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Most of today for me went waiting for actually installing a virtual machine and nodding out while the story was about managing storage and the infrastructure. In perspective, infrastructure management is rather neat, and storage systems aren’t exactly my turf. At least not yet. I mean, i kind of get the gist of it, i [...]

Cacti is a free network monitoring and graphing (”trending”) tool, which i’ve managed to install on a computer at work. The idea is that eventually i will have a portable network monitoring tool that is both easy to physically lug around and reasonably easy to plug into a new network and let it do its [...]

As a small exercise in geekdom (when i probably should have been to bed already) i installed Xubuntu 6.10 on a one gig Kingston Mini-Migo USB flash drive. Yeah, it’s pretty small :). Instructions are here.
What i didn’t get running straight out of the box was the wireless network, which was handled with a [...]

Kubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” has been released! Whee! Christmas comes twice this week
Now the question remains whether i should do an apt-get –dist-upgrade on my fully operational Linux, try out Virtual PC, install Xubuntu 6.10 on my really oldish home PC, or all of the above.

It should be noted that i’m an OS agnostic. I believe the right OS, and the right platform, for any job depends on what job needs to be done and by whom it needs to be done. Thus, at home, at my spare time, and whenever i write on my thesis, my platform [...]

My Windows and Mac colleagues will sneer at me, but i finally have MP3 support on my Linux box, that runs Kubuntu 6.06. The Ubuntu Wiki suggests enabling the multiverse repository and installing libxine-extracodecs but that didn’t help me since i couldn’t find the libxine-extracodecs listed at all.
In the end, i googled for libxine-extracodecs and [...]

What i like: Having a fresh copy of Kubuntu 6.06 F7 installed on my computer, complete with my home directory rsync’ed from my previous installation. And it just works.
Actually, the installation just didn’t work as expected (though i was told that it would if i dowloaded the Nightly build of 6.06 instead — some [...]

I’ve re-installed my home Linux installation again. I seem to be the master in configuring it to pieces. These days, however, i don’t worry, and i even take a backup copy before i do things that may be a bit too drastic for survival.
At home i use the SimplyMEPIS Linux because it’s a Debian derivative, [...]

Don’t the Ubuntu and MSN Spaces logos look an awful lot alike?

Last weekend i installed Kubuntu Linux 5.10. And deleted it. Here’s why. Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux (Kubuntu is the KDE flavour or Ubuntu) 5.10 was released on Thursday the 13th, clogging the ubuntusphere, and of course i was among the ones to torrent the installation ISO on first night. After all, my home installation of [...]