May 26
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 it was installed on the server, installed by nsr. Next I hit Powelink like any good administrator and found someone solved this by linking with ln.
How come I didn’t think of that. Well I blame it on how much time I’ve been spending in the Windows server/client environment lately. So I think I’ll have to play with my SPARC linux server at home again.
Feb 22
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 and running I put my favorite distribution cd, Gentoo, in the drive and started the install. I’ve been using Gnome for a long time now and as Gentoo was installing I was checking out the latest Linux Journal and saw a preview of KDE 4. I thought, well I just have to try that one out. So after the basic installation was done I started merging KDE 4.
Left the computer compiling overnight and returned to the office this morning eager to see what KDE had to offer. I fired up KDE and I have to say it was a huge disappointment. The system was really unresponsive, everything looked huge on the display, I couldn’t fit anything in my 1680×1050 display. I know this is still new software and there are for sure enhancements on the way, but still this was too much.
The feeling of checking out KDE 4 was really close to the feeling when I first installed Windows Vista, thinking WTF have they been up to. A few hours later and KDE 4 and all it’s dependencies are gone, Gnome is back and I feel at home.
Eventually I will probably give KDE 4 another go but right now it just doesn’t seem mature enough to use.
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