0/ Have your own virtual machine in your desktop is not hard! 0.1/ Some Terminology OS - Operating System Host OS - Underlying OS - in this you install VMWare Workstation. Host needs to be stared for the guest to be able to start. Guest OS - The extra OS you install inside …

Is it just me? Whenever I have to restart something or do some actual maintenance on a server - that my heart starts pumping and I get really really nervous. I've heard many times people say things like: "pain is temporary, glory is forever" (quote from a movie) when it comes …

You can download the Beta here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html The release notes are here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/ Some cool stuff, but should you upgrade already? I ran the Firefox 4 beta for what feels like forever and didn't have …

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

Hard to tell.. but if you see this pretty cool 6min movie: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1430 you'll see that they mention a collider. This thing sends out lots of data from each collision. I administrate a system that gets a little bit (very little) of that …

After a question in my SAN switch firmware upgrade article I made a comparison of two downloads of 6.3.1b (one via IBM and one from HP) - the only differences were a file called ancillary and one called EULA.pdf. I used examdiff to find the differences. All the …

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1478734 I couldn't get it to work. Eventually I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM in Virtualbox and in there it worked. However, resolution is only 800x600. So I found this page: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php …

Ever noticed this? I googled my behind off and saw some posts about registry , re-registering, runing as administrator but any way the last one did not work. A restart do get them back. Maybe not the most awesome 'fix' but I think a restart might be good every now and …

What day it is can be told by all the suitcases around the room. Version Control An overview of the version control used in CERN. Quite cool, they're not using Git yet but they are moving away from CVS to SVN (subversion) which is not updated anymore. Apparently hard to …

Dinner on the 3rd night was amazing. It was at the hotel Weisse Schwan in Arheilgen outside Darmstadt and it was a nice reception hall with big round tables, waiters with lots of wine and great buffet food. A+ Cloudy day! Or - Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS A few had …