Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with linux

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:58:00 -0500

Mount/access Files Residing on Xen Virtual Machines

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:46:00 -0500

Great example showing how to access the filesystem[s] on a xen disk image, or any other disk image which represents a drive containing partitions.

ganeti - cluster virtual server management software

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:42:00 -0500

Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software.

This is pretty geeky.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:09:00 -0600

This is me wearing my Lego shirt (available from Thinkgeek) which has lego spelling out "LCA 2010" and a couple of little lego penguins. LCA is Linux.conf.au, which was held in Wellington, NZ this year.

Photo by Andrew McMillan, taken at the conference dinner. The original is linked from here and is actually CC0 licensed, but Flickr won't let me set it to that.

Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:52:00 -0500

Tim found this - kinda like delicious or digg for *nix one-liners.

Take the Linux Filesystem Tour

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:39:00 -0500

An excellent user-level introduction to Linux filesystem.

How to force dkms_autoinstaller build and install even when status=installed-weak

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:05:00 -0600

Post to a mailing list which shows some basic usage of dkms

Save the Tasmanian devil

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:10:00 -0600

Website for the Save the Tasmanian Devil program. This is the charity which which was chosen as the recipient of the proceeds from the linux.conf.au penguin dinner auction.