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Taking notes
Well I started taking notes “electronically” on my old Palm Pilot, sorry no, my old Handspring Visor deluxe. I remember first thinking: “why do I need that memo button?” But it has made sense since. Under Lotus Domino / Notes one of my oldest databases still in use is a widely replicated personal Journal which [...]
Filed under: Best Practice, Productivity, Ubuntu, Web Services | 5 Comments
Tags: Domino / Notes, Evernote, evolution, gnome, Google Gears, Google Notebook, knotes, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes Journal, rhinote, tiddlyspot, tiddlywiki, Tomboy, Ubuntu, webdav, wine
The shortlived Vista experience
My very short-lived experience with Vista Business.
This message has been written on Vista’s Notepad and will remain the only productive work ever produced using this system on my machine.
OK I never planned to keep Vista. But when speaking with Andy, he was impressed that with my 650 EUR Vista Business was included. So I decided [...]
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Tags: hp6715b, Ubuntu, Vista, windows
Ubuntu – THE Linux Distribution
IBM has finally recognised Ubuntu as a first class Linux ditribution. And it’s about time, as many customers have long used Ubuntu on their IBM machines as the default OS. Why? What’s the secret sauce of Ubuntu?
First Ubuntu is unashamed and proud of Linux, server side and most importantly desktop-wise. Ubuntu has a clear agenda [...]
Filed under: Mac OS X, Ubuntu | 3 Comments
Tags: 1680*1050, 6715b, Dell, HP, HP qompaq 6715b, Inspiron 1525, linux, Mac, MacBook Pro, Novell, SLES, Suse, Ubuntu, WSXGA
Thanks VMware :-(
I remembered that message from the beta. The server froze and VMware said to install the new beta. OK. But now it happened again, VMware Server said “new version available” (or something like that) and the virtual machine just froze. OK. The whole Ubuntu Server was killed. The only way [...]
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Tags: server crash, VMware, vmware freeze, vmware update
Now that most of the installations are done, would we do the same decisions and processes again? Would we make the same choices?
Overall we are quite happy with Concorde and our installations…
Filed under: "Lotus Domino", Domino, FreeNX, Installations, Lotus, LotusDomino, Open Source, RAID, Ubuntu, VMware | Leave a Comment
Now the biggie, because Lotus Domino is quite choosy regarding libraries and Java. For once the Ubuntu help pages didn’t help me. Try to find the compat RPMs, not easy. And then I found a couple of sites which seemed to have succeeded without those RPMs. Specifically this thread in the [...]
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OK, now the groundwork for a Ubuntu-based VMware system is done. Now we install the workhorse. So rather than creating a new Ubuntu 6.06 desktop virtual machine, VMware offers us a marketplace of free pre-configured “appliances”, where, of course, a Ubuntu 6.06 VM can be found…
Filed under: FreeNX, Installations, Open Source, Ubuntu, VMware | Leave a Comment
It’s the VMware Server, the free virtualisation system by VMware, which we will be using. OK, it’s not as good as the non-free products of VMware, such as ESX, but it is fine for our purposes. One caveat though, moving a virtual machine from a VMware Server on AMD machine to a Intel [...]
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Concorde installations – FreeNX
Once FreeNX is running, nearly everything can be done remotely. That may not be important when you are installing a machine at your home, but remote admin of a server is nice and very helpful. Also I try to spend as little time as possible in server rooms, which are cold, dry and loud. [...]
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So here we are, the nth installation. I downloaded 6.06 again, burned another copy and finally the installation went without a hitch.
The only important question during the installation is how to partition the system.
I chose a classic config for the OS: All on RAID1 with a swap partition 1.5 times the size of RAM, [...]
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