Archive for March, 2005

VMware tools 4.5.2 in a FC3 guest

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Works mostly by the book. The only quirk is that it appears the installer thinks it has XFree86 3.x, and changes the symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the XF86_Vmware server. One needs to make it point back to the xorg server by doing:

% cd /usr/X11R6/bin
% rm X
% ln -s Xorg X

And then to get gdm going again

% […]

Evolution notes

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

To delete all evolution settings:

rm -r ~/.evolution
rm ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution
gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/evolution

Evolution stores all the account information in the gconf registry, but the cache stuff in .evolution.

5 cents a song.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Theres a slashdot story about an academic saying the record companies should charge 5 cents a song online instead of the current 99 cents. That the demand is elastic enough that they would be the ones to benefit. Simple supply and demand, and you can argue all day about whether demand is that elastic, but […]

Crashing servers

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Somehow my webserver crashed.. I think the host OS crashed, and took the guest down with it. When I logged into the host today, the uptime was only 20 hours or so.
I took the opportunity to move the webserver VM that this site is hosted on over to my windows box. Linux host to windows […]

Does open source foster innovation?

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

This seems to be a question that is very relevant to my work, although we don’t quite exactly sell an open source product.
I think pretty much what it comes down to, is that there are so far two (plus one) kinds of open source business models.

A service-based company (supposedly like redhat) which is not selling […]

Cell phone radiation

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Came across this page this morning: Radiation measurements for cell phones on the market. The federal requirement says you have to stay under 1.6, mine is a 1.21. Probably a good thing to look at before buying my next phone.
Although, does it mean if you have less radiation then you also get worse reception?

SELinux Symposium

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

So I’m off to Maryland for the SELinux Symposium. A bunch of HP, IBM, Redhat, and NSA guys will be there as well. Should be pretty interesting, though I’m not looking forward to the flight (being that I just made the return trip very recently). But I guess everyone’s over there huh. (Redhat in NC, […]

The new Powerbook scrolling

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Finally got a chance to play with the new powerbooks two-fingered scrolling feature. Feels like it works pretty well, and seems so obvious in hind sight. I’m always the most excited about simple, seemingly obvious improvements like these. They are few and far between in the computer world, and Apple probably lays claim to a […]