http://www.theclonchs.com A boy and his blog. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:54:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/06/26/solaris-volume-manager/ 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 ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/05/30/kickn-it/ 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 ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/04/11/first-impressions-of-kde4/ 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 ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/04/11/jumping-to-wordpress-25/ So, I figured that now is a good time to install KDE4. Gentoo published an official guide, so here it goes. http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/03/28/kde4/ Ok, so I just ended up backing up my configs and diving in head first.  It is really much easier than I thought, although I had to fiddle with subversion to do the in-place import.  Answering my earlier questions... Repository location - I know how to use the old RCS version ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/01/18/re-version-controled-configs/ Ohh, almost forgot.  I got a new job as a UNIX System Administrator at Mount Carmel Health System.  Yeah me!  They want me to help define their Linux standards.  And hopefully I won't fear blogging about work so I can post about my adventures. Very cool. http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/01/17/new-job/ Well, the power supply in my "server" finally went south and took the site offline for a week and a half.  Should have been proactive and purchased a new one ahead of time.  But of course that only was the first thing that went wrong. Swapping the power supply was not ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/01/17/power-problems/ I've been reading up on using subversion to manage my various system config files, namely /etc.  While not familiar with using subversion (only knowing about it and what it does), I have been using a couple of websites as role-models: Scott Scriven's how-to, Peter Murray's gentoo specific how-to, and Noah ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/01/02/version-controlled-configs/ Renee, Chad and Nette took me to the Funny Bone last night for my b-day. Pete Lee opened for Dan Grueter. Both were hilarious although Pete had me in tears. I figured I would post something to drum up a few clicks for them from my readers, all ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2007/12/08/comedy/