Category Archives: Linux

All my thoughts on Linux

SCO joke of the day

The mailing list 0xdeadbeef gives us the SCO joke of the day:The Sultan’s Son

Quote of the day

This comes to us from Groklaw article SCO’s Reply Memorandum Re Discovery - as text
But the reality is, this case is about a contract dispute. Linux got dragged into it as hostage. SCO is holding Linux by the neck, pointing a gun at its head, and telling IBM, “Do what I tell you, or I’ll [...]

More Fedora Core 2 Fun

I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but I’ve been distracted by other things. In any case, I have the last issue with FC2 solved on my desktop and setup some other nicities.

Java dumbness of the day

My friend seva is an admin of some unix boxes (including linux) at a firm that does some stockish stuff. Appearently, some of their applications are based on java. He was running into a weird situation where the box was in EDT (where it lived) and but java kept thinking it was CDT [...]

A tale of two RedHats, Part 2

I upgraded my desktop at home to Fedora Core 2 this past week. Partly because I was home sick and bored and also because I was sick of not having DMA support in ATAPI CD and DVD burns. The fact that its taken this long for Linux to support it is really sad. [...]

A tale of two RedHats, Part 1

A bunch of friends and I have rented a box at ServerMatrix, a managed hosting service where you get total control (root) on your box. They support Windows, BSD, and Linux. The flavors of Linux they’ll install are RH9, RH EL3, or Debian. I’ve been elected as head admin of the box [...]