As of now I have integrated the nicest online services: LinkedIn, WordPress, Plaxo, FaceBook and the desktop (Firefox and tweetdeck) now all use twitter to update any activity I have had.
Now I will have to be careful what I do, har har..
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Twitter usable ??
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Passed for RHCA
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Last week I’ve been to London again for my last Red Hat course.. With this I have achieved my RHCA status.
Am I happy about this? no doubt.. It taught me well about several enterprise implementations of Red Hat products that enhanced my knowledge on those topics towards the datacenter as a whole. Now with that knowledge I’ll be able to implement and maintain datacenters better and decide what products are good or better than others.
Hopefully in the near future this will help me with additional job opportunities within my work right now.
Now I have to look further what trainings to take next 
Upgrade Fedora 9 to 10, with IPA-server
Friday, February 20th, 2009Hi again,
Just today I have upgraded my Fedora 9 IPA-server to the latest Fedora version, namely Fedora 10.
As reckless can one be.. just upgrade the system (with all of its db4 libraries), while the ipa instance is still running, increasing the risk of corrupting the (live) berkeley databases that are the back-end of the ldap instances.
I managed to fix the problems I encountered.. read on to read about my investigation and how I solved the problem, it might be of use if you happen to have the same symptoms . . .
Writing speed
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Using Dvorak, I sure have the idea I am an ‘above average’ typist. Though my work does not need real typing speed, it is nice to notice the speed improvement over time and it sure helps in typing code rather easy..
Google Chrome does not work with HP ILO interface
Monday, October 20th, 2008Unfortunately, HP ILO (C Class Blades, so ILO2) does not work well together with Google Chrome..
I don’t know why, but Chrome doesn’t proceed from ‘Loading’ to the login screen.. This issue is rather annoying, as this is a major blocker in us being able to adopt this new browser.
Why do we want to adopt this browser?.. That is because it has nice features, like very fast javascript rendering, the Safari browser being used and the possibility to turn web pages into applications with the ‘create shortcut’ option.
Last but not least, Chrome will be multi platform once it ends Beta phase, which we endorse.
Almost RHCA
Friday, October 17th, 2008Yes.. Time is approaching.. yet two modules to go before I will be RHCA.. finally. I think it will be of value to be certified.. it is a new milestone in my Linux carreer.. it certifies my knowledge which I have gained in the last 12 years of Linux enthousiasm.
The last module will be next year, in February. I want to have RHCSS in February as well, so let’s hope all will work out fine.. 
Fedora 9 finally working in VMWare guest
Friday, October 17th, 2008Yes.. I finally got it working.. not granting this issue much time, it took a while for me to have my Fedora 9 machine working within a VMWare workstation session…
What was wrong? The mouse pointer was not synchronized well. The guest ’saw’ my pointer on other places than where my actual mouse was.
The solution? as suggested by this blog, I modified the xorg.conf, and voila, I had it going.. now I can continue my Fedora Directory server quest while using Gentoo Linux as my host machine.
Thanks, tapman!
fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration
Thursday, October 9th, 2008With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.
My configuration:
- laptop, HP nc8430
- two displays, panel (1680×1050) and an external monitor (1280×1024)
- Gentoo Linux, at time of writing kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 (stable)
- ati-drivers 8.532, the 8.9 version of the ATI Catalyst driver
The problem: Besides known issues I noticed new problems with the current kernel on this driver:
- opengl fails to work at all, glxinfo just hangs
- starting open office, it never shows up, so I have to kill the process ooffice (or oowriter, whichever I start up), no output is shown, no errors occur, it just hangs
- GNOME screensaver fails to properly activate and lock my screen and hangs on the gnome-screensaver-gl-helper, indicating something with opengl not working properly (??)
- compiz-fusion just doesn’t work
I ended up switching to the opengl of xorg-x11, but issue 2 remains.
with the xorg-x11 renderer, at least my screensaver works as expected; with the fglrx driver I need to enter text mode (ctrl-alt F1) to kill gnome-screensaver-gl-helper (two times, for each screen) in order to get my unlock password popup again.
I sure hope ati will get their development and support department sorted, as rumors that NVidia is having better support doesn’t make me happyi.
Keyboard problems in GNOME
Thursday, October 9th, 2008I can’t understand why, but as a Dvorak typist I run into problems with GNOME. GNOME has a nice feature to switch the keyboard lay-out from the default, QWERTY, to the Dvorak layout.
But, it doesn’t (reliably) work for Ctrl and Alt keys. I am not sure what causes the troubles, but according to this bug report at gnome.org it is due to some low-level interpretation of the keyboard strokes.
What worries me is that it takes so long for such a report to get handled with. It is a report dating from 2005 and still (10/2008) has the status NEW.
I hope to be able to report progress on this at any time
