matt | February 28, 2010
I finally finished playing through the original fallout (bought for $6 from gog.com). Totally worth it. Very, very good game. I should note that it runs just fine under wine (tested: 1.1.31 aka the one which ships with Ubuntu 9.10). Oh, and for the curious, the maintainers of the WineHQ AppDB drop “old” versions of [...]
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matt | February 20, 2010
largely from: http://lxc.sourceforge.net/lxc.html https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVZ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lxc-containers/ With additional notes from: http://www.stgraber.org/2009/11/06/lxc-containers-or-extremely-fast-virtualization http://linux-vserver.org/Upstart_issues http://lxc.teegra.net/ 1.) Note that you likely want to create a separate partition for machines and put the machines there. 2.) apt-get install lxc debootstrap (Note – this is pretty inefficient in terms of space. The lxc setup does allow for read-only mounts of things. [...]
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matt | February 4, 2010
Totally not as bad as you’d think.
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matt | February 2, 2010
So, I was fiddling with java stuff at work the other day, and was struck by just how useless windows task manager is. When running several: java -jar something.jar GNU ps actually shows which is which, because it includes the name of the jar file. Windows just shows javaw.exe for all of them, so you [...]
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matt | February 2, 2010
Okay, to recap: Heller says that the FedGov can’t ban guns in common use, or that are logical evolutions of the arms required to be kept for militia purposes. DC is forced to open up their gun registry, but the registry is not abolished. There is suggestion that registration of arms may be reasonable, but [...]
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matt | February 2, 2010
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ Win. (More to come. I’ll also be updating the community docs once I have all the kinks ironed out.)
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