Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-12-28:	A thought on the advance of X auto-configuration
2006-12-14:	Fedora Core's memory problem
2006-12-08:	What I want out of a Linux partitioning program
2006-12-07:	Another obnoxious discovery about Ubuntu's `/var/run` stuff
2006-12-01:	Ubuntu's attention to detail in `init.d` scripts
2006-11-28:	Progress towards an all 64-bit application world
2006-11-25:	The quest for a nice Linux CD player application
2006-11-14:	Some more power consumption numbers
2006-11-08:	The quest for the mythical `C.UTF-8` locale
2006-11-03:	Installing Wine on Fedora Core 5 x86_64
2006-10-30:	First irritations with Fedora Core 6
2006-10-23:	A `dump` performance hint: the block size really matters
2006-10-21:	An irritating iptables limitation
2006-10-20:	Why releases are important
2006-10-19:	An Ubuntu astonishment
2006-10-12:	How stable my AMD 64-bit systems have been
2006-10-11:	Getting nice looking TrueType fonts on Fedora Core
2006-10-10:	Cross building i386 RPMs on an x86_64 Fedora Core 5 machine
2006-10-09:	I ♥ Fedora Extras
2006-10-03:	Some numbers for modern disk performance
2006-09-29:	Gnome daemons you'll want to run in a custom environment
2006-09-25:	Some reactions to a dual monitor X setup
2006-09-22:	A NFS mount accident on Linux
2006-09-19:	One of the reasons I dislike SELinux
2006-09-18:	Why `/var/log/btmp` may be using up a lot of space in your `/var` My current view of Linux system filesystem sizes
2006-09-15:	The temptation of LVM
2006-09-12:	A quick note about how extended partitions work
2006-08-29:	An interesting filesystem corruption problem
2006-08-23:	Why I am irritated with `evince`
2006-08-18:	Why `apt-get` is not my favorite application (part 2)
2006-08-17:	The quick secret to bootable USB keys
2006-08-14:	Distributions: keep your hands off `vi`
2006-07-21:	What Linux distributions we use (and sort of why)
2006-07-14:	SELinux bites man: a story Pointers to some SELinux explanations
2006-07-12:	Why I like 'lib64' better than 'lib32' for the x86_64 transition
2006-06-30:	Some thoughts on the Fedora Core 5 Gnome desktop
2006-06-14:	How to supply an IP address in Red Hat's Kickstart
2006-06-09:	Seeing Quicktime movie trailers on Fedora Core 5
2006-06-08:	Some computer power consumption numbers
2006-06-07:	Some Fedora Core 5 experimentation
2006-05-25:	A Linux `su` surprise
2006-05-24:	The not so secret history of vmlinuz
2006-05-11:	Building a boot floppy for BIOS flashing
2006-05-06:	Using a stock kernel.org kernel on Fedora Core 5
2006-05-03:	Fedora Core 5's missing 32-bit shared library symlinks
2006-05-01:	Emergency repairs with GRUB
2006-04-28:	Some first impressions of Fedora Core 5
2006-04-25:	Linux's `%iowait` statistic
2006-04-21:	Working on RPMs with `quilt`: an illustrated guide
2006-04-12:	Something to remember about networking restarts
2006-04-10:	`xiostat`: better Linux disk IO statistics
2006-04-07:	A `bash` irritation
2006-04-05:	The other dynamic linking tax
2006-03-30:	What disk IO stats you get from the Linux kernel
2006-03-24:	Setting up to build RPMs
2006-03-14:	Some problems with `iostat` on Linux
2006-02-23:	Checking systems with RPM verification (part 1)
2006-02-21:	An annoyance with $PATH on Red Hat
2006-02-16:	An interesting IDE to SATA migration problem
2006-01-31:	Getting console messages in X
2006-01-30:	An impending Debian derailment
2006-01-09:	How Linux names network interfaces

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