Systems
Topics on hardware equipment and systems administration
Getting mouse wheel to work with KVM and Ubuntu
Posted by Michael on November 3, 2008 in Servers, Systems
I have been busy getting a Ubuntu based Network Attached Storage server up and running as well as finally switching my trusty desktop to Ubuntu running my old Windows XP as a VMWare Server image. All was fine and dandy until I decided to add a KVM to the mix so I could easily switch [...]
Jumpstarting your Virtual tour with Oracle VM
Posted by Michael on October 29, 2008 in Servers, Systems
Server virtualization technology has come a long ways in the last 18 months (today being a wonderful October 28, 2008 crisp, cold Fall Sunny day). Here, I am going to take a look at Oracle VM, one of the relative newcomers to the game and show you how to quickly get up and running with [...]
Converting Oddmuse Wiki to Edgewall Trac
Posted by Michael on October 2, 2008 in Macs, Programming, Python Language, Ruby Language, SQL
Our company began long ago with wiki’s, but we chose the Oddmuse wiki way back when. These days, we’re heavy users of Trac wiki because of its integrated ticket support system. So what to do with all those old wiki’s that folks have stopped using and reading. The Oddmuse wikis still hold [...]
Changing ANSI colors in Terminal on Macs
Posted by Michael on September 9, 2008 in General, Servers, Systems
Probably the most frustrating experience I have had with Macs so far is figuring out how to change the ANSI colors in Terminal (Terminal.app) so that I can read the outputs of man and most especially ls and comments in vi when colorization is activated and I have chosen a dark background theme.
I am using [...]
Configuring ntpd to hand out time to local servers
Posted by Michael on August 11, 2008 in General, Servers, Systems
Syncing your servers to public time servers is one of the most common ways of keeping server times in sync. Apparently the less common approach of configuring one server to sync with public servers and it in turn becomes the authoritative time keeper for the rest of your servers is less well-known. Digging [...]
Why Macs?
Posted by Michael on May 8, 2008 in Macs, Systems
For Years, I have used nothing but Microsoft Windows desktops and my development effort was 100% Windows based systems. Long story, short, lets just say I knew way more about the inner bowels of Windows and its various API’s than I will ever care to recall nowadays. Around 2001, I realized “The Web” [...]
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