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01 March 2010 ~ Comments Off

RPM packages for Toggl Desktop client

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 [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

A short introduction to Chrome OS

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…

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22 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

A short introduction to Chrome OS

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…

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11 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

Dell OMSA on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 – No Controllers found error

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, [...]

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15 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

Advanced Dependency Management with Yum Shell

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…

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15 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

Advanced Dependency Management with Yum Shell

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…

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23 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

How to print every nth line of a file

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 …

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23 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

How to print every nth line of a file

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 …

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19 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

The Atalanta Systems Guide to Open Source Operating Systems

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…

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19 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

The Atalanta Systems Guide to Open Source Operating Systems

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…

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