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Update 20100807: dwm on SL55 and Aspire One
I’ve narrowed my three favorite window managers down to ratpoison, ion{2,3}, and dwm. Maybe not always in that order but pretty close. And jwm is a steady fourth; it would rate higher if it didn… more →
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Why I picked up Scientifc Linux
wrote 3 weeks ago: So here we are again, I want to give you guys a little explanation of how I ended up choosing Scient … more →
DB2 V9.5 Fedora 16 x86_64
wrote 3 weeks ago: Fedora 16 # yum install libaio* libaio*.i686 compat* compat*.i686 nfs-utils Ubuntu 12.04 # sudo apt- … more →
IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 on Fedora 16
wrote 4 weeks ago: First uncomment ip6 out of /etc/hosts and add your hostname/domainname # cat /etc/hosts127.0.0.1 a … more →
Shrinking LVM root volume
wrote 1 month ago: How to shrink the root volume on a Scientific Linux (RHEL6) installation: Make backups first. This c … more →
Free Clone build of Red Hat enterprise Linux
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wrote 2 months ago: Once upon a time (not so long ago) Red Hat Binary distribution used to free. Then they changed their … more →
Automated migration of systems to a new puppet master server
wrote 3 months ago: I recently built a new puppet master server and wanted to migrate all of my systems from the old mas … more →
Scientific note taking
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wrote 4 months ago: There was an article in this weeks Nature journal, discussing whether the ‘paperless’ di … more →
Kicking off 2012 with some downstream fun
wrote 4 months ago: Red Hat makes it a not-impossible task to remove the Red Hat branding from their flagship product an … more →
Forcing a specific package version with Puppet
wrote 4 months ago: Recently I had a need to ensure a specific version of a package (nfs-utils) was present on the syste … more →
A Phoenix?
wrote 5 months ago: There was a time, and not so very many months ago, when it looked as if the CentOS project -producer … more →
Is this thing on??
wrote 5 months ago: Silly, trivial little thing, I realise, but how do you know if your network interface on a Linux box … more →
Stellarium on Scientific Linux 6.1
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wrote 6 months ago: I have updated my recent article on how to configure Scientific Linux 6.1 to be your desktop operati … more →
A scientific desktop
wrote 6 months ago: Following my recent decision to chuck over Fedora 16 in favour of Scientific Linux, I’ve put t … more →
I tried
wrote 6 months ago: I gave it a good go: Gnome Shell in Fedora 16, I mean. It’s been my main desktop for 3 weeks - … more →
msttcorefonts on RHEL6 / Centos 6 / SL6
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wrote 9 months ago: msttcorefonts is a way of obtaining the Microsoft TrueType fonts on Linux. However, version 6 releas … more →
What the Frak
wrote 10 months ago: Well, installing Scientific Linux was a little let-down. First it installed all groovy, but had no N … more →
Scientific Linux
wrote 10 months ago: Decided that it was far past time that I should set myself free from the iron fist grip of Microsoft … more →
Links and things
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wrote 10 months ago: I noticed last Friday that all my links from this site to the various documents and downloads I … more →
Enterprise Linux by any other name
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wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been doing a fair bit or reading and writing and talking about different versions of … more →
