I use the toggl time-tracking service to keep track of the hours I work for my various clients. toggl make available desktop clients for Windows, Mac, & Linux, but the Linux packages are in .deb format for Ubuntu and, until recently, they did not provide x86_64 packages. toggl recently released the desktop client as open [...]
Google are everywhere these days. The number one search engine, a suite of hugely powerful mail and business applications, shopping, maps… but last year they seemed to move from the Software as a Service model to something rather different…
Google are everywhere these days. The number one search engine, a suite of hugely powerful mail and business applications, shopping, maps… but last year they seemed to move from the Software as a Service model to something rather different…
It seems that several people have been having problems getting Dell OMSA 6.2 to work correctly on CentOS 5.4 x86_64. Specifically, the software does not detect any storage controllers, and therefore also doesn't find any disks. eg. [root@b034 ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 Invalid controller value. Read, controller=0 No controllers found. After a little investigation, [...]
Many years ago, Red Hat had a (rather unfair) reputation of being a Linux distrubution forever crippled by a painful and clumsy package management system. “Dependency Hell” was the name used to describe the situation one could get in…
Many years ago, Red Hat had a (rather unfair) reputation of being a Linux distrubution forever crippled by a painful and clumsy package management system. “Dependency Hell” was the name used to describe the situation one could get in…
Sometimes a scripting language isn’t the right tool for the job. I’ve been working on a piece of code that parses huge logfiles. The test data needed to be representative across 24 hours – a simple slice wouldn’t do. I spent a …
Sometimes a scripting language isn’t the right tool for the job. I’ve been working on a piece of code that parses huge logfiles. The test data needed to be representative across 24 hours – a simple slice wouldn’t do. I spent a …
One of the most common questions for newcomers to Linux is “Which Linux version should I use?” or “Which Linux version is best?”. I’m also asked for my professional recommendations about which OS, or which distribut…
One of the most common questions for newcomers to Linux is “Which Linux version should I use?” or “Which Linux version is best?”. I’m also asked for my professional recommendations about which OS, or which distribut…
