Webinar

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Speakers: Moderator: Michael Healy, Contributing Editor, InformationWeek & Fred Osborne, Solutions Architect, Virtualization, Red Hat

It's no secret that virtualization provides many benefits and although many organizations realize the advantages, virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads. Windows servers may be part of your physical server landscape, but may not be the best choice for your core virtualization platform.

This webcast will talk about the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, and (Read more...)

Webinar

Date: Wednesday, February 24
Time: Choose from two live events:

• 9am EST (GMT-5) / 14:00 GMT / 3pm CET (GMT+1)
• 2pm EST (GMT-5) / 19:00 GMT / 8pm CET (GMT+1)

Speakers: Wanja Pernath – Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Prabhakar Gopalan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

In this presentation JBoss Solutions Architect Wanja Pernath will share with you customization techniques for JBoss ON to get maximum return on your investment in the shortest possible time. Wanja will cover implementation scenarios at some our largest customers in Europe who have deployed JBoss ON.

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Recently I got a copy of SLES 11, that I decided to setup to compare against the RHEL I’m running in the enterprise space (for a possible migration path).
One of the first things I checked up on, was local password complexity to adhere within Sarbanes–Oxley (yes.. the biggest pain in the world). In my RHEL implementations I’ve set system-auth to use pam_cracklib.so and use [ continue reading... ]

I know when people install KDE 4.4, they’ll be wondering “Where do I configure my Plasma Theme Now”.
This is mostly in part because it was moved from the “Desktop Settings” into systemsettings.
Here’s a little pictorial on changing it:
In the menu choose Configure Desktop (which is systemsettings via the command line)

In the General Tab double click on Appearance (hovering over it, will show you [ continue reading... ]

Recently someone emailed me and said they couldn’t get Google Chrome installed on their openSUSE 11 box. So I decided to write up a little installation using Google’s repository and zypper (zypper for opensuse and yum for fedora).
To setup the repository in openSUSE add the repository with:
You can then install google chrome with:
or
Unstable are snapshot builds of Chrome, whereas Beta are more structured and tested [ continue reading... ]

The next development release of GNOME has been released as per it’s snapshot schedule.
Here’s an excert from their release:

You can add this using the following repos for openSUSE:

Note: I’m not 100% if you actually require the backports as in previous usage.
Upgrade using:

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:
No EffectBox SwitchPresent WindowsCover SwitchFlip Switch
I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.
Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown [ continue reading... ]

Recently I upgraded to Amarok 2.2.1.90 from 2.2.0 while testing out some KDE 4.4.
However, when I first started listening to the music I realized that my tracks were playing continuously and not randomly. So I went to the menu’s to change this setting (this is where I had previously changed it). But to my surprise there was nothing in any of the menu’s.
So [ continue reading... ]

From the KDE.org Website:

I’ll be writing a little bit about blogilo, which I have used since it’s inception and find it quite compelling.
Plasma for Netbook is a great step forward, however I do not have a netbook nor the funds to purchase one to give it a shot, therefor I will not be able to comment on that much.
I’ll be talking about some more updates [ continue reading... ]

If you follow my blog you’ll know that I’ve recently switched backed to KDE from GNOME, and I recently found a feature that I really have fallen in love with, when it comes to Dolphin usage.
The feature I will talk about today is Dolpin and Terminal Integration. First I must admit, I found this feature on accident as usually if I wanted to open [ continue reading... ]

Do you do it? Is the process automated? What updates do you apply?
So recently a discussion came of patching some Linux servers in the enterprise with some Unix administrators. Their stance was “we don’t patch our servers, unless there is a reason to upgrade the version for application compatibility”.
I found this compelling as many of the updates pushed out are related to vulnerabilities which have [ continue reading... ]

Recently Adobe released a native 64-Bit native version of the popular Flash plugin.
Here’s an excerpt from their site:
You can download the packages here.
On my openSUSE installation I went ahead and removed the currently installed flash, that were installed via RPM:
I then downloaded and installed flash plugin, into my browser-plugins directory:
Now you can verify in your browser (Opera or Firefox at least) that your plugin was [ continue reading... ]

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1.
Slated for the Webinar is:

Teleportation
Speedups
Snapshots 2.0
Live demo

You can register at the link below:
https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_0712_490_0.jsp

The Fedora Polls have closed for the naming of the next release of Fedora, Fedora 13. The results were as follwed:
I find this hilarious since my son and I (ok, I admit I watched it before he was born to) occasionally enjoy the show Jimmy Neutron, which is on Nickelodeon in the US. The main character Jimmy, has a Mechanical Robot Dog named Goddard.
So without any further [ continue reading... ]

I forgot my laptop at home today, so I was unable to install Chrome while I was at work. (yes, that’s an embarrassing story). But now I’ve gotten home and installed the RPM using zypper:
sudo zypper in google-chrome-beta_current_`uname -i`.rpm
After doing this, I launched Chrome using google-chrome and it put a smile in my face just knowing that it was in “beta”. Now lets hope [ continue reading... ]