Posted by: James Sparenberg
on August 13 2009
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Quick note for all. I just learned that if you start a blog, get a call from Nagios that a raid array crashed, and mark a blog you just started as "unpublish" it just might get published auto magically for you at some point in the future.
For those who read that piece of a blog, sorry. I'll edit locally and cut and paste going forward. As one gentleman I know once said, "Whatever automation and security do for you they also do to you." Well it did it to me this time.
Posted by: James Sparenberg
on August 04 2009
Ever had this situation? Go to Youtube to watch the latest fashion in wedding dances, and suddenly your CPU goes to 98% and everything on ..... the ..... box ........ slows ............ to ........ a ........ crawl. Well there is a way to prevent that overrun and get back control of your system.
A project caled CPULimit at sourceforge has for me presented an answer. In a nutshell what it does for your system is tell a running process that it can't consume more than X percent of the CPU max. In practice on my laptop what I have seen is that while a video is loading I sometimes get some jerkiness for the first 30 seconds. Otherwise, no problem and normal performance, without the CPU overrun.
Posted by: James Sparenberg
on July 28 2009
JoliCloud, A new Linux Distribution aimed at the Netbooks we use, and shooting for the Cloud. Leveraging the Cloud based apps around us. Right now they are in public alpha, but my initial reaction is that if this is Alpha, the Gold is gonna rock.
The literature, etc, from the site, leads me to believe that the creators of JoliCloud Linux, "get it" when it comes to Cloud Computing, and they are committed to aiming at the concept of , always on, always available computing. They are IMHO right. You don't need to worry about syncing 4 or 5 copies of a single data/app/configuration set when you only have 2, current and backup. (You do, do backups of critical data don't you?) You just need that all important way to reliably access it inside the cloud.
Posted by: James Sparenberg
on July 12 2009
The buzz all last week and weekend has been about Google OS. With more than just one pundit going on and on endlessly about how silly it is for Google to introduce a second OS for NetBooks when they were all ready getting traction with Android blah blah blah blah. Try this one on for size
Android is Google OS. Always was. Always will be.
Posted by: James Sparenberg
on July 11 2009
Arrrrrrghhh. I've got past having the basic environment installed. I've said hello to the world with and without a picture on the screen. I've run through a tutorial that has me putting little red dot's on a horrendously green background. I've not a clue what in the hell I've done.
One of the hassles of OOP is that there is a lot of background magic that happens. Most OOP programmers understand the basics of the incantations. But can't explain it. I understand why they can't, because frankly they don't think about how they do it. They just do it.
Posted by: James Sparenberg
on July 07 2009
Before anyone hit's me over the head with "File a Bug Report" I'll save you the time you didn't take in checking to see if there was a bug and, there is. #505365 to be exact. The work around is known, it's a matter of waiting until Fedora decides on how to fix it.
Meantime, Firefox still crashes. So what to do. Well in dealing with the bug and in dealing with some stack traces I did, we came to the same idea. There are a number of libs in Firefox, that are referenced by Firefox, the same names are referenced by flash. The problem comes when Firefox runs it says "Do I have this lib if so use mine." and Flash says "Use the lib referenced by ldconfig" OOOOOPS!
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