Entries from July 2006

How to wear Linux sneakers and not shoot yourself in the foot

Date July 29, 2006 by Isaac

I love most things about the great and powerful Linux; however, there are some things that will get you into some serious trouble. File recover in Linux is non-trivial, so it’s best to not delete something unless you are sure you want it. Unfortunately, it’s very easy to type ‘rm * .tmp’ instead [...]

Resize your Windows/Linux Partitions Without Spending a Dime: A free alternative to PartitionMagic* and the likes

Date July 28, 2006 by Isaac

I’ve always been an Open Source fan, but I must say that I am particularly impressed by the quality of GParted. GParted allows you to non-destructively resize and manipulate hard drive partitions. Many Live CD’s contain GParted and allow you to resize various filesystems such as: FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, XFS, and more. [...]

Diskless DOS Floppy Image Boot Using PXE

Date July 26, 2006 by Isaac

Most of the clusters of servers that I administer are diskless — they receive their boot images over the network using PXE. These are Linux clusters, and the diskless nodes all boot Linux images, however, a couple months ago I had need to boot a DOS disk image. This is very similar to [...]

Creating PDF’s in Python

Date July 25, 2006 by Isaac

Whatever your role or occupation there are doubtless times where you need to write a report. Most of the reports that I turn in are unique and need to be manually generated. However, my weekly test status report is pretty much the same every week and basically its just the stats that change.
Poking [...]