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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 [...]

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 [...]