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 [...]

26 June 2008 | The Geek Life | No Comments

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 [...]

30 May 2008 | The Geek Life | No Comments

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 [...]

11 April 2008 | The Geek Life | No Comments

KDE4

So, I figured that now is a good time to install KDE4. Gentoo published an official guide, so here it goes.

28 March 2008 | The Geek Life | No Comments

Re: Version Controled Configs

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…

18 January 2008 | The Geek Life | No Comments

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