Published by Robert Pogson March 18th, 2011
in technology.
I fired up my quad-core, AMD64 server today. I want to do some work with virtual machines and it has the hardware. It was running Debian Lenny so I apt-get dist-upgraded it after getting the new Debian archive keyring and making non-free binary blobs available. It took about 40 minutes and mostly worked smoothly. I had some trouble with MySQL+PHP scripts. For some reason the services did not start properly and a couple of scripts were using obsolete PHP syntax. I manually installed what was needed and it was pretty smooth. I now have a dozen local databases running and PHP scripts for them. No data was lost and everything works now except Swish-e with php. I have to re-install the swishe.php module, I think.
That’s awesome service for FLOSS. WIth that other OS going from XP to “7″ is not possible except by re-installing everything. This system has dual NICs, RAID and huge amounts of data.
Now that it is tuned up, I will put it in our server room so I don’t have to listen to 5 fans.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson March 18th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
Quoting from Al Jazeera:
“1:12pm
David Cameron, the UK’s prime minister, says that his country will deploy Tornadoes and Typhoon aircraft in a Libya operation.”
Tornadoes should be able to do the job. So should the Typhoon.
Revolutionaries are making attempts to open the border with Tunisia and Misurata is holding out.
According to the BBC:
“1156: Belgium’s European Affairs Minister Olivier Chastel tells the AFP news agency his country will contribute six F-16 fighter planes and a frigate to the operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.”
Gaddafi’s bombers have been active between Ajdabiya and Benghazi and at Misurata. This looks like a definite challenge of the “no-fly” zone. This comes at the same time as Gaddafi’s
mouthpiece stated:
“Libya has decided an immediate ceasefire, and the stoppage of all military operations.”
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If the resolution has any meaning, the on-going use of artillery against Misurata should be a target with high priority.
UPDATE
Artillery fire has been widely deployed against revolutionaries so the world is dismissing Gaddafi’s words-only cease-fire.
Italy will actively participate and permit use of its territory for bases. Combined with aerial refueling the bases in the region and aircraft carriers should permit hundreds of modern planes to reach Libya.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson March 18th, 2011
in technology.
Last year, Dan Frye gave a keynote about how IBM got involved in Linux and how IBM changed and changed Linux. The process started in 1998 and by 2004/5 Linux was ready for anything. That was the time period my usage went from using GNU/Linux on random PCs in my classroom to using it on servers and whole laboratories. GNU/Linux was ready for anything in education. Continue reading ’11 Years of Linux at IBM’
- Robert Pogson
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