The other day I was talking about how to install Rocks Cluster. Well, today I’ll give you indication on how to test it out a bit. Now this is surely not the *proper* way to test the cluster out, which would be to run some fancy cluster-aware graphics rendering application or something of the sort, […]
Boy, I wish I had a picture of this, or maybe smellavision or something to help share with. You’ll just have to trust me. I have been looking for things to write about this month and, honestly, my topic list is getting pretty low. Then, I ran into Dann’s post about his cooking. Well, I […]
How would you like to pay 4 cents a piece for your music? Well, the price was definitely right for me. I stopped at BestBuy and bought a SlotRadio card to use with my Sansa Fuse. Slide this little card in your Sansa Fuse and you get access to 1000 songs over a variety of […]
The Walking Dead All work and no play makes Linc a dull boy, right? Well, I thought it was about time to touch on one or two things outside the linux/technical arena. One of these things is the “The Walking Dead” series. This is a comic series that I was introduced to by Dann Washko […]
The Official Ubuntu Server Book Ahh, these are the kinds of books I really dig. As a systems administrator, I love to get books that detail setting up servers and services and this is exactly what this covers for Ubuntu. Here you can learn about things from what bind is and how to get it […]
The Official Ubuntu Book For Ubuntu users, this one is a real gem. This is your “soup to nuts” type good starter book for Ubuntu users. It is great reference material for everything from the history and idea behind the Ubuntu distribution to more advanced topics like using Ubuntu as a server and even touches […]
I mentioned that I was going to take this opportunity to explote my bookshelf a little bit since my *play* laptop’s screen bit it again. I figure I’ll call this the “What’s on your bookshelf” series. I’ll try and give some general reviews about what’s on my personal bookshelf and why and I’ll try and […]
One of the parts of my day job is dealing with and managing our HPC cluster. This is an 8 node Rocks cluster that was installed maybe a week after I started. Now I was a bit green still at that point and failed to get a better grasp on some things at the time, […]
Short post today. More of a memorial post than anything else I guess. As if on queue, my thinkpad laptop has realized that I have been using it and has decided to make with the funny video problems once again. This sort of puts a damper on my rolling distribution reviews as it was quite […]
I promised that I would try the full install version of CentOS 5.4 desktop on my thinkpad and didn’t want to disappoint, so here it is… I actually had a really hard time with this one. That is not to say that I believe that there is an issue somehow with CentOS, but certainly something […]