This message comes to you from a hotel room in Vancouver Canada, the next stop on Vic and Rog's world tour of 2006! I had a great time in Seattle -- catching up with folks from past SHAREs, and meeting a few mailing-list-buddies for the first time (my work blog and wiki page will be getting … Continue reading Goodbye Seattle, Hello Vancouver!
Author: Vic Cross
I've been away from SHARE for far too long. It's really great to hear positive things about Linux on zSeries again, rather than the crap I have to put up with at home. In Australia, there is no evangelism of zSeries. There's an attitude bordering on arrogance that seems to say "we're not going to explain zSeries … Continue reading Rebooting my belief system
I just flew in from Brisbane: boy, are my arms tired! 🙂 Aww, the oldies are often the best. So here I am, jet lag and all. Flight was uneventful and seemed unusually quick for over 12 hours.The new International Business on Qantas is interesting -- Susan calls the Skybed a "Mork seat" (in reference to the 70's-80's TV … Continue reading Arrived in Seattle
Passed the Novell Certified Linux Professional practicum (exam) yesterday. w00t! Scored 758 out of 800, which I'm told is a "good pass" (and to date, the highest score amongst my workmates). The exam cops a bit of flack in the community, but I found it okay... So now I'm certified!
Nicholas drew his first recognisable artwork the other day: a semi-circle with smaller circular squiggles at each end, which he proudly proclaimed as a "Car!" -- and strike me if it didn't look like a New Beetle too! To dispel any once-off theories, he's repeated it several times. I'll see if I can get an image of … Continue reading Nicholas the artiste
Following the CentOS team's announcement of their repackaging of Red Hat's Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS) applications, I decided to give them a run. Results so far have been less than encouraging.It took a fair while to download the required source RPMs and build them (working in my emulated environment, of course). After installing them, … Continue reading GFS on CentOS – maybe
Here is a link to the best blonde joke ever! Not that I'd usually post links to jokes, but this one is worth it. Happy New Year!
I'm thinking of putting my server on a bit of a software diet. Each time I get a clever idea about something else to run, half-a-dozen or so new packages get thrown at it. The latest was the idea of running Sync4j, which needed Tomcat, which in turn (obviously) required a swag of Java guff. This I'm not … Continue reading Server bloat
I'm obviously expecting too much. I thought that after years of having to wander the wastelands of proprietary protocols, Linux mobile phone users might at last have some relief. SyncML is an open standard for device synchronisation that is supported by many new phones; this, I thought, was what we have been waiting for. Unfortunately I was wrong...What … Continue reading Device Synchronisation — why is it still so hard?
As the title suggests, Vic's photo Gallery is back up after the disk blow-up the other week. Follow the link at the left of Crossed Wires to view. There's still been no new photos for a while, but at least you can go back to looking at the old ones! 😉
Crossed Wires 