It has been a while since my last blog post. I have been busily working on upgrading our IBM BladeCenters from RHEL 4 to latest update in RHEL 5, along with migrating Xen guests to KVM. And a lot of software got enhanced along the way in Caché, clustering, GFS, Samba, etc. And more SAN [...]
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A Month of Upgrades
Aug 29
Smarter Phone
Jul 31
Well, my Blackberry Storm is sitting idle in its own cradle; it’s man-genius click-screen days are all over. It has been replaced by a smarter phone, Droid X. I won’t bore you with all its technical details charms, but highlight only the things I find of interest. And there are a lot of things of [...]
Harmony
Jun 13
My wife bought me this Harmony cartridge for my Atari video console system as a birthday present gadget. Like the Mega-Cart for VIC 20, it boots a friendly front-end menu for all the cartridge images stored within it. But unlike the pre-installed ROM in Mega-Cart, Harmony sports a SD flash memory reader and allows me [...]
GnomeShell preview
Jun 11
I stumbled upon a Fedora package release named gnome-shell, which led me to its project web site. It is easy to play from Gnome 2.30, simply invoke this from a terminal prompt: gnome-shell –replace … and the existing GNOME panel will be replaced using shell. When done playing, simply press Ctrl-C from the terminal and [...]
Fedora 13 add-on packages
May 29
After a stock Fedora 13 install, it is time to add-on packages to bolster up this lightweight and stable desktop OS. With the eye-candy afforded by Compiz-Fusion and Emerald theme manager and replacing the bottom Gnome panel with Avant Window Navigator and its docking applets, it is a simple matter of installing and some configuring [...]
