Posts Tagged uncommon tools
workaround for slow shared folders in Virtualbox 3.x
Happy 2010 fair readers ! I hope that all is well with you and yours. Let’s get right to business : Virtualbox has a feature that allows you to access the host OS’s file system from the guest OS (shared folders), which is super useful, but not exactly perfectly implemented. In particular, there are known, [...]
load balancing, or, « how i learned to love a piranha »
Hello again, everybody ! Today i thought that we’d take a look at a fun and useful topic of interest to many system administrators : load balancing & redundancy. Now, i know, it doesn’t sound too exciting – but trust me, once you get your first mini-cluster set up, you’ll never look at service management [...]
(complex) partitioning in kickstart
Bonjour my geeky friends ! :) As you are likely aware, it is now summer-time here in the northern hemisphere, and thus, i’ve been spending as much time away from the computer as possible. That said, it’s been a long time, i shouldn’t have left you, without a strong beat to step to. Now, if [...]
getting Dia to give you a pdf
Hello again ! Today’s quick tip concerns a software package called Dia, which is an open source tool (available for both Windows and Linux, as it goes) used to make diagrams, flowcharts, network maps, and so forth. It has its own file format (.dia), which is (obviously?) useful for saving the projects you’re working on, [...]