03.29.08 - 01:00am
I’m working on a project that is deploying on CentOS 5.1, and I found it not entirely obvious how to install a really stripped down server, as a starting point for a lean and mean, hardened production server. Since I’m doing work on this at home on VMWare, and it’s being deployed on a VPS […]
03.01.08 - 06:36pm
In short, gain with minimal pain, a couple of small hitches. I went single-core to dual-core with a drop-in replacement CPU and it was almost as easy as replacing the batteries in a flashlight.
02.12.08 - 05:02pm
I have a VPS hosted at RimuHosting.com. I waited a while (3 months) for bugs to be squashed before upgrading it to Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (”Gutsy Gibbon”). There was one new issue.
BTW, my non-Rimu home server was the first thing I updated. Notes are here.
The only Xen wrinkle is that you need the libc6-xen package. […]
12.28.07 - 01:37pm
A few weeks ago I updated to the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. This is the 7.10 (meaning October 2007) release, called “Gutsy Gibbon”. I encountered a couple of serious issues early on, but now that these are resolved things are running well. I’ll describe the issues and solutions so that anyone else encountering them […]
11.21.07 - 01:55pm
The Android mobile phone software platform from Google has some journalists and developers confused due to its license terms. The terms are open source, but not as free as the GNU Public License. That decision has people wondering what Google’s up to. I have a theory about why they did this.