Archives for the 'The Geek Life' Category
Solaris Volume Manager
I had the pleasure of adding a “hot spare” filesystem to our Solaris box today. Actually, it was a continuation of what I started the other day. Now I’ve never been particularly exceptional with disk devices (or block devices in general) in Solaris, so I knew this was going to be a challenge. And who [...]
Kick’n It
So I’m doing my first RHEL kickstart. I’m quite impressed. I’ve known about it for sometime (who doesn’t) but never really used RHEL and therefore didn’t have a reason to use it. But now that I’m “the linux guy”, and RHEL is an obvious choice for enterprise environments, I standardized on RHEL as the distro [...]
First Impressions of KDE4
Well, installation was a breeze. In fact with the move to cmake, compiling the masked ebuilds of KDE4 took only a few hours! Wow. Overall it is great. However, one must remember that really just the core of KDE4 is production ready. The surounding applications that make up the remander [...]
Jumping to Wordpress 2.5
Just made the jump to 2.5 (from 2.2) and I must say in true Wordpress fashion the move was easy as pie. They standard backup database, disable plugins, then upload/copy files process. Some cool new features are the built-in tag support and redesigned dashboard. Moving from Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) was a [...]
KDE4
So, I figured that now is a good time to install KDE4. Gentoo published an official guide, so here it goes.