The centos 4.x we are using as platform for the VMWare VMs (yes, I know there is version 5, but we need to be compliant with RHEL 4.x because of the ATG requirements) installs by default the NTP client. Here is sequence of steps that needs to be performed to enable automatic synchronization of the [...]
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VMWare and slow clocks – take 2
2009/01/09Phaser 6120N rocks !
2007/11/23Today I picked the printer I have mentioned yesterday – Xerox Phaser 6120N. It is somehow more bulky than the ML-4500, but boy, does it work !! From all available connection options (parallel port, USB, ethernet) I have of course chosen ethernet. Printer after switch on spent about 5 minutes doing strange and weird noises, [...]
Little pains of switching
2007/11/22I have been running the Unix only workstations for over a week now. During this week, I have managed to clean up and convert two Windows boxes to VMWARE virtual machines, but actually had to resort to use the VM’s only in two cases. Everything else worked just fine. The first case was requirement to [...]
Ragioni per fare il grande salto
2007/11/09During the vacation, we stopped in small bookstore in Verona which was selling computer software as well. At the entrance, there was a poster showing smiling Finder’s face, Apple logo and announcing reasons why you would want to make the big jump – il grande salto – to Mac platform. That is to explain the [...]
Installing ATG on Fedora Core
2007/11/08Trying to install ATG on the Linux platform turned out to be not completely hickup-free. The default installer died with the following message: Fortunately, the fix was easy after I found out what went wrong: incorrect assumption about kernel version. To make it work, this “hack” helped: None of this of course happens on Windows [...]
Going (mostly) virtual
2007/11/01With my new Macbook Pro on the way from China, I have started the big consolidation of hardware and software platforms. The goal is to improve the change management of software development environments, increase mobility and increase stability of the environments. The way how I am going to do that is moving all “fragile” environments [...]
Like Netmeeting – only much better
2007/10/03My current client is multi-national company, headquartered in Ottawa with offices in USA and Europe. With teams all over the globe, the conference calls and network meetings are part of the game. This usually means Microsoft Netmeeting to share the screen and teleconference bridge for voice. Netmeeting usually works quite OK – except when it [...]
.NET on Linux faster than on Windows ? Hmm
2007/06/27An interesting article on JavaLobby caught my eye today: Do .NET Applications Run Better on Java? Normally, knowing the not exactly impartial focus of the Java centric site such as JavaLobby or theserverside.com, one should be careful when reading how much Java outperforms .NET. The bias works the other way too – just look at [...]
Avalon – reloaded …
2007/03/20Now this is something really interesting: as found on Adobe Labs site, their technology codenamed Apollo is approaching Alpha status. What Apollo is – in a nutshell – is another virtual machine, similar to Java runtime or .Net framework, with few minor twists: it is multiplatform (as Java) as well as multi-language (as .Net) at [...]
NAS Odyssey: Up and running
2007/02/12After lots of attempts (see here, here and here), I have finally resolved my disk space problems and the RAID-5 NAS server is up and running since about two weeks now. I have stayed with Fedora 6, successfully installed Samba, configured the shares and copied all family JPEG’s, videos, MP3′s etc onto the huge 907 [...]
