This morning I did a bare bones CentOS 5.1 installation onto a machine. I don’t need Gnome, KDE, or any other window manager. However, I did need to forward the display over SSH for one of the programs that I need to run. For the life of me I could not figure [...]

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Lately I’ve been working on resurrecting a project, called Kollektor, that I have on SourceForge. Kollektor is a personal book collection manager that can fetch information from Amazon. It’s been a few years since I worked on it and in the mean time the Amazon interface has changed significantly. A couple days [...]

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As someone coming from Linux I find working in Solaris completely backwards. Case in point: Today I needed to get the drive information from a Solaris machine. Of all commands the one to use is “format.” Go figure. Anyway, here’s how to do it, thanks to this article:
bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks…done

AVAILABLE [...]

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The piece of software that I test at work has an option to enable debug logging to a file. Normally, I run with this enabled so that I have a record of what I did and any errors that I encounter. However, this file can become extremely bloated and if often hundreds of [...]

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I just finished installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.3 under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and ran into some issues.  During the configuration, when VMWare is compiling drivers for the system, I got an error saying “include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly”
From my reading this seems to be related to version 2.6.24 of the Linux kernel. [...]

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