matt | May 13, 2010
Their update system is nondeterministic and lame, rendering different answers depending on when and where you ask. They like to sue people for doing useful things with their data sources. The human interface is annoying. I will consider diaspora* when it is available. If you want to talk to me, send me an email or [...]
matt | May 13, 2010
I dislike the new Google layout. At least for now, you can get back the old one with this workaround.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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.)
matt | January 30, 2010
It used to be that, back in the day, /usr/local was an NFS mount on a central server, with appropriate trickery so that each machine got the correct binaries for its architecture. This allowed for reduced storage requirements, plus easy upgrades of new applications. I question if this is an idea which has basically become [...]
matt | August 31, 2009
The more one reads, listens, and researches computer security, the more it makes one want to sit on ones front porch and drink beer, because there’s nothing else you can do. It isn’t helped by the fact that users are completely retarded and do things like stick MRI machines on the intertubes.
matt | August 26, 2009
Don’t connect control systems to the intertubes!!! Since we make such systems at work, this was the subject of some lively discussion at work today, especially since we make a unit which connects home via a cellular modem. This stuff can be really, really scary if not done carefully. What is even more scary are [...]
matt | August 19, 2009
I once heard (likely on Floss Weekly) someone say that if you want an application, think about it, wait 24 hours, then go look for it, someone will have written it, and it will be open source. QBrew Now all I need is a reloading data application. If I end up having free time to [...]
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