The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Fallout

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 Wine, without [...]

lxc basic howto

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. So, it can have its own /etc and html docs [...]

Toby Keith’s movie

matt | February 4, 2010

Totally not as bad as you’d think.

Windows task manager vs ps

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 don’t know what you’re [...]

Punditry: Shooty things

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 [...]

lxc is awesomes

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.)