Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user demiller on 2006-11-29
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Open source web desktop Tagged as: ajax calendar internet opensource web2.0 office
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“101 Things you do NOT want your System Administrator to say.”:http://packetstormsecurity.nl/unix-humor/100.things.sysadmin.says.html Bonus points if you understand all of them, double bonus points for each one you’ve personally said.
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Sysadmin Paul Ouderkirk “discusses the benefits”:http://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2006/10/11/network-experiments-with-vmware-server of using virtualization software as a testing and simulation space:
bq. What I did have, however, was VMware Server 1.0 which is a fantastic free product that lets you install and run pretty much any x86 operating system in its own little virtual machine sandbox along side as many other virtual machine instances as your host machine can handle.
bq. So, armed with VMware Server and an AMD64 3000+ system with 2GB RAM, I set about simulating a dual-headed OpenBSD CARP setup.
He also talks about how not having direct access to the underlying “real” hardware can sometimes present a challenge. It seems his experiences are similar to mine, i.e virtualization allows for test environments that might have been difficult to manage in the past, due to costs and lack of hardware.
The comments are interesting as well, and also mirror my experience. A lot of IT people still don’t “get” virtualization and why you would want to use it for testing and development.
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FreeBSD Desktop
Originally uploaded by Doug Miller.
A screenshot of my FreeBSD experiments thus far, sporting a lovely Window Maker desktop. Running FreeBSD 6.1 via Parallels on my MacBook Pro.
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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user demiller on 2006-11-24
- Keeping FreeBSD Up-to-Date - Part 1 –
More on keeping FreeBSD up to date, specifically updating the OS Tagged as: howto upgrade FreeBSD Unix software blog
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Over the past couple of days I’ve started experimenting with “FreeBSD.”:http://www.freebsd.org I have a scenario at work where I need a secure Unix system to serve some external web content, but have some constraints that suggest Red Hat Enterprise Linux, our usual Linux distro, isn’t our best option. Since I’m already familiar with a FreeBSD-derived OS in OS X, FreeBSD seemed a logical choice.
As with any venture into a different Unix-like OS, I feel a bit like an American driving in Ireland: I can read all the signs and the overall act of driving is familiar, but the car is on the wrong side of some very unfamiliar roads. Fortunately, because I’m using “Parallels Desktop”:http://www.parallels.com/ to do all of my experimenting via virtual machines, it’s relatively low cost to throw a system away and start fresh if necessary. Right now I’m doing an initial update of the OS and packages on a new system; when I’m done I’ll clone it and park a version out on the “NAS”:http://www.doug-miller.net/weblog/2006/11/18/linkstation-pro-320gb/ as a base that I can use for future experiments. Using VM’s as a testbed/simulation space like this is one of the huge advantages I see in virtualization. I’m using VM’s this way more and more frequently both at work and at home.
As for FreeBSD, it’s a little early to judge yet, but I’m impressed so far. It isn’t as polished in terms of end-user features as RHEL - no snazzy graphical installer or update tools, for example - but the command line tools work very well indeed. FreeBSD probably isn’t a good choice as a desktop *nix system for someone just starting out with Unix, but it feels more “solid” and “Unix-like” than most Linux distros I’ve worked with. This is a sysadmin’s server Unix and it shows, but seems very powerful and well organized. I’m looking forward to playing with it some more.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Originally uploaded by Doug Miller.
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans. I’m at the in-laws’ this year, about to stuff myself.
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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user demiller on 2006-11-23
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Using PHP and MySQL to build database enabled AJAX. A tutorial Tagged as: database howto javascript mysql php programming tools web ajax - Keeping FreeBSD Up-to-Date - Part 2 –
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