http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog Ramblings of a system administrator Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:36:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got my new MacBook Pro Wednesday the 18 of June. Today I've been using it for a few days. Granted Midsummer holidays were here and in Finland we tend to do some serious partying during the midsummer holidays. This year though the weather wasn't really nice it was raining almost ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/06/22/the-first-days-as-a-machintosh-user/ I finally ordered my first Mac. My network card on my main PC died for some reason today and well instead of buying a new network card for 20€ I ordered a MacBook pro. Call me crazy if you want but I've been looking at them for years now and ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/06/17/one-macbook-pro-coming-right-up/ From time to time I get an urge to get myself an Apple. Not the fruit, the computer. I've always liked the way they look. They are beautiful, no use denying that. And as I am a multi operating system user I could probably fairly easily get into Mac OSX, ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/06/11/expensive-fruits/ I recently updated our EMC Networker server and today after our tapes ran out of storage. The system wouldn't start moving data to tapes. Looking for the problem I noticed nsrlcpd didn't start. Taking a closer look showed it couldn't find libsmci.so. I started my hunting by checking yum whatprovides and found ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/05/26/spending-to-much-time-in-windows/ I got myself ADSL back in 2002, since that day I haven't been without The Net at home more than a few hours during power outages or minor problem with the ISP. Me and my fiance have been building a house for just about a year now and are soon ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/05/07/living-without-internet/ I just found myself a nice application which should make it easier to write some blog posts. If you are running a blog and want a good editor head over to the Windows Live Writer homepage. The interface is clean and easy to use as you can see in the ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/04/29/windows-live-writer-test/ Finding time to do some blog / site work seems to be hard right now. All my time goes to the largest project I've ever done, building my house. Hopefully I'll be moving this month and maybe I'll post some pictures before we move in. Sorry for this quiet time. http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/04/15/all-quiet-in-blog-land/ I had a need to get my system up fast so I set up Ubuntu. It's a nice system and really popular but my favorite distribution is still Gentoo. So after I had the stuff I needed to get some work done while installing Gentoo up and running I started ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/02/27/installing-gentoo-using-ubuntu-710/ I usually don't care to much about politics, but today Erkki Tuomioja suggested that fuel in Finland should be handled with coupons. We are living in the 21st century and someone comes up with something like this. I care about the environment just as much as the next guy, ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/02/25/fuel-coupons-in-little-finland/ I just got myself a new desktop to the office. We buy HP so this desktop is a DC5700 MT, it's a middle range desktop with integrated graphics card. Specs are as follows: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 running at 2GHz Graphics: Intel i915 chipset RAM: 4Gb DDR2 Eager to get it up ... http://blog.nixadmins.net/blog/2008/02/22/kde-40-trial/