How to forge has a great article up on how to install linux over a network connection using you own Preboot eXecution Environment installation server. This will allow you to play around with various distributions without the need of burning CDs / DVDs of each distribution.
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When you add a server to /etc/hosts and that server already exists you will find that the actual ip address of that target server is cached.
So say you have a server called ‘gimbo’ and it is located at ‘10.0.0.3′ but for some reason it is changed to ‘10.0.0.4′ temporarily you can add the entry to [...]
As many people in the open source / free software community I am very intrigued about the entire Novell / Microsoft deal. Just to get some insight I have been collecting articles / blog posts:
November 8th
Novell opens legal books to GPL pundits
Luis Villa: more thoughts on MS and Novell (with a dash of Oracle, Sun, [...]
Through digg.com I came across this performance of Beck on Saturday Night Live. It features Beck on guitar and a set of percussionists on a dinner table, simply amazing to watch…
So I found killzone: liberation waiting for me when I came home last nite. The game is absolutely fantastic; great graphics, playability is very high and up to now the missions have been quite entertaining.
So far I have played the initial tutorial level, made my way to our base and rescued some VIPs; clearly haven’t [...]
We’ve all seen the SciFi movies where images/videos/computers are displayed to users in a 3d fashion. Science has been trying to come up with means to do just this and make that little part of SciFi a reality for the present day. We’ve seen plenty of different approaches; 3d screens, special glasses combined with special [...]
Although I am still undecided if I want to actually buy a PS3, I am still keeping close tabs on anything related to it. The big thing about gaming consoles is not the number of titles, how they look or how good the performance of it is… it’s about playability; you can have a huge [...]
After using emacs-wiki for managing this website for a while I grew tired of maintaining it that way, although it enabled me to do everything from Emacs, it did limit me in many ways… the main defect being not able to provide RSS feeds for my ramblings.
So, I quickly installed wordpress, found a skin I [...]