It's all the rage on YouTube, apparently... posting video of a z/VM system booting something. Only kidding, this is a good piece of tech. If you search YouTube for "OpenSolaris System z" you'll find a set of five videos that show an interview (recorded at the recent Gartner datacentre conference) with David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates demonstrating … Continue reading OpenSolaris on System z
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In this post only about six months ago I berated myself for buying an ATI-chipset graphics card for use in a Linux system. I titled that post "Why I probably will never buy ATI again...", as if I knew that I'd make the same mistake again. Sure enough... I had problems with my MythTV frontend playing particular … Continue reading I did it again: damn you ATI!
I managed to fill up the multimedia card on the N70 -- the only thing that's surprising about that event is the length of time it took me to do it. 🙂 So I went looking for ways to get photos out of the phone into iPhoto. I can't believe it took until the third page of … Continue reading Nokia sync software for Mac!
I had some system problems yesterday. My VMware guests just stopped. Middle of the day and they just died. I tried to run the management console or even the command line programs, but they all failed with the infamous "VMware is installed but is not configured for this system..." message and the prompt to run vmware-config.pl. I re-emerged vmware-server … Continue reading Gentoo “hardened” multilib?
I haven't switched sides, really... but four cores for AU$330 was too much to resist. :)I'm doing the cascading hardware trick... But instead of buying the new top-end rig and finding something to do with the surplus gear, I found something new to do with my existing desktop and had to replace it. AMD's 4x4 stuff looks good, … Continue reading Sorry, AMD
I found out a little more about a problem that's been really annoying me for ages: I can't access my bank's Internet banking using Konqueror. When I hit the button, Konqueror proclaims that it "Could not connect to host", but if I right-click on the "Login" link and choose "Open with Firefox Web Browser..." it works … Continue reading Konqueror and Internet Banking
When I first set up FreePBX, I was frustrated by the inability to create a voicemail user independently of an extension. It looked to me like an office system, where each handset was associated with an individual and had its own voicemail. In the end I created a few extensions that were not associated with handsets and … Continue reading FreePBX modes
They've done it to me once more, those folks at Apple. In 2003, while I was in the US for a residency trip, I fell in device-lust with the third-generation iPod. I brought one home, and I'm still using it (on its original battery, I might add, although there's a bit of a telltale bulge developing on … Continue reading iPod touch: device lust
My desktop Ubuntu system is/was a 32-bit build running on 64-bit hardware. I'd been looking on-and-off for a way to in-place upgrade an Ubuntu system from i386 to x86_64, but it doesn't look easy/feasible/worthwhile compared to a fresh install. So thinking that I was up for a reinstall anyway, I decided to check out whether Ubuntu was … Continue reading Sabayon Linux
...and the winner is: KVM! Why? Because as you read this, some of you will be thinking I'm talking about a keyboard-video-mouse switch, while some of you will be thinking I'm talking about Linux kernel-based virtualisation (still others are probably thinking of something else... what I don't know, but I reckon I can be sure that the … Continue reading The “Technology With The Worst Name Ever” Award
