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CentOS 5.2 on a D945GCLF2
Everyone goes green these days and with the new Intel Atom 330 processor, it seems there is a perfect choice for a little home server box that sits in a corner, serves files and music and does all the little chores that keep a home network running.
So I got one of these buggers from […]
@ImplementedBy madness
Consider a codebase of considerable size, thus being open-source.
This codebase uses Google Guice to wire its innards together. Last time I looked, it had a central FoobarGuiceModule which listed all of the classes wired together. When I integrated that codebase into $DAYJOB, I wrote a DayjobGuiceModule to manage the things different for me. No […]
pulse-audio and vmware-player - get sound going on Fedora
vmware is a PITA concerning sound. However, it is possible to get it to run with pulse-audio. This is how it works:
Get the current vmplayer from vmware.com. It is free and it comes in a 32 and a 64 bit version now. I used vmplayer 2.5 (64 bit version) on Fedora 8.
Get the VMWare DSP […]
The colorful water ball of death
Leopard arrived. I took a 5er license to allow upgrading my MacBook and Kristin’s MiniMac.
MacBook went ok. Very slick. However, the MiniMac (one of the PowerPC ones) was not so lucky. Upgrade worked well, machine rebooted. Login screen appears. And a few seconds later the cursor turns in the cheery, colorful ‘rotating water ball’ […]