So, as mant of you know, RedHat has efectively killed CentOS as a free alternative to running RHEL at home. Because of the blowback from that announcement (I’m sure) then have changed their license for developer use to allow up to 16 servers. This developer license is free and you are free to use those […]
The description of this book is “Become an efficient CentOS administrator by acquiring real-world knowledge of system setup and configuration” and the author, Andrew Mallett, has put together quite a collection of information in there to help you do just that. Probably worth mentioning here is that this book is obviously designed for someone not […]
Last night a couple of my infrastructure VMs suffered some catastrophic problems due to an unexpected power issue. This brings a couple of notable postables to mind: Make sure you backup even your development work. The 2 VMs that got corrupted for me were development VMs that I was testing software and configs on, therefor […]
OH YEAH! Another book review, and one on one of my favorite Linux distributions too! Pakt Pub contacted me to do a review on their new CentOS 6 book, and boy was I excited at the chance. First of all, I generally like Pakt Pub‘s books, and second I really dig CentOS! Even better is […]
A long long time ago, I virtualized all my home infrastructure onto an ESXi 4.0 server. It has run perfectly fine, minus one hard drive failure, for quite a few years. Lately, though, I had been wanting to upgrade it because it’s not terribly fast and I have run out of resources to be able […]
Lately I have been working so hard that I haven’t even had any desire to do any fun computering at home. Today that changed a bit. I decided this morning that it was high time I upgraded my all time favorite rss feed reader, tiny tiny rss. Well, wouldn’t you know it, after I did […]
This week I am helping out my Mother, who has just had knee replacement surgery, so, oddly enough, I actually have a small bit of time to actually post something here again! Right before I left, I decided I wanted to press an old Dell laptop into service for giggles. It is a Dell Latitude […]
Probably you have either listened to me or read my thoughts or both for several years now, but it occurred to me today that someone out there might be interested in seeing what actually drives the LincGeek. I currently live in Pennsylvania, but I was born and raised in Upstate NY, with a brief stint […]
I had a friend a few weeks ago who asked me for help getting the Transmission bittorrent client working on CentOS 6. I took these notes then and am sharing them now. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://geekery.altervista.org/geekery-el6.repo NOTE: RHEL/CentOS 6 x86_64 users have to replace $arch with $basearch in the repo file yum install transmission transmission-gtk
I love love RHEL and CentOS on servers but surprisingly, CentOS 6 makes a nice desktop as well! Here are some notes I took getting things going the way I like on my CentOS laptop. Where I work, if you push your machine name to DHCP, it will register with DNS as well. This is […]