Xen And Single System Images

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I receive two kinds of e-mail regarding Xen. Usually, people have specific questions, problems or errors to cure. Others are planning to deploy Xen and simply want feedback on design ideas based on what I’ve tried. I like the second kind of question the most, the conversations usually turn protracted and become quite interesting. Someone [...]

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Please adopt /etc/vendor

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If you package and distribute any kind of POSIX operating system (i.e. it has an /etc), please consider adding a file named /etc/vendor with the following format to your offering: DistroName DistroVersion DistroDomain An Example: Foonix 1.23 foonix.com One of the biggest headaches for anyone hoping to support as many free operating systems as possible [...]

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Interesting internationalization

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I’ve been having a rather enjoyable discussion with Lorenzo Bettini, the author of GNU Gengetopt and Gengen. If you are not familiar with Gengetopt, its a tool that simplifies generating the code required for programs to accept options. I talked about gengetopt a while back on this blog. The discussion surrounds support for internationalization, which [...]

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Do or do not? (is there a try?)

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If you have ever watched Star Wars, you’re likely familiar with the Yoda character. Yoda is a Jedi, what Lucas might have envisioned the Samurai to be in an ancient but advanced society. Yoda is famous for saying “Do or do not, there is no try”. A lot of people seem to miss out what [...]

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More SPAM stopping trials, no luck

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I’ve been experimenting on ways to nip comment SPAM in the bud. Ever since noticing that Google sent me more robots than humans, I’ve been really frustrated. This is the scenario. Bot starts up, bot queries Google to see who shows up in the top 20 results for keyword ‘fud’, bot sees if each result [...]

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A freelancer’s guild?

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I’ve been looking at lengths for an organization of freelance I.T. professionals who combine efforts and forces to help each other. I’ve found some rather informal groups, none that looked like they were likely to stay operational for long. There are writer’s guilds, programmers guilds, various scientific and research guilds, however I could not find [...]

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New Mercurial theme brewing

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For those of you who have not been a long term visitor of my web site (that I nicknamed “Rose Red”), I’ve been slowly but surely converting many scripts and applications to match my original XHTML 1.0 strict static design. You can see the site design notes if your really curious about what I’ve done. [...]

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Information overload

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Even with the abundance of social bookmarking services, RSS feeds, blog search engines and all of the other gizmos that are supposed to connect my demand for interesting things to read with a steady supply, I still have a hard time finding something good to read. Some of this I’m sure is due to upcoming [...]

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