Linux: Fedora/Centos - Highlight "EPEL"

I cant say how much of a fan I am of EPEL made for Fedora but can be used for Centos - It essentially makes Centos usable when building more cutting edge systems in house but still needing Centos's dependability. I know mixing and matching is evil, but this and Dag make great extra's repo's for Centos

EPEL - Repo information
DAG repos

Give them a shot! I'd like to mention dag is great for older linux Versions too :) take a look!

-Mel

Submissions to WineHQ

A few games i've submitted Tests on WineHQ:

Final Fantasy XI:Linux
Dungeons & Dragons Online:Linux

Cleaning the blog up a little

As many or none of you might know I tend to get a bit ranty here and there, I have taken the steps to slowly remove possible "offensive" content or anything that would not bode well for my image. That being said this is a blog, and I do freely blast my opinions between code blocks and such so :) Hang on and enjoy the ride, and while you do that you might want to consider looking over some of my last posts.

This blog officially catalog's my attempts at successful liquor infusions and provide cool nifty tools to needy sysadmins!

-Mel

Revamp of my site.

So I spent a little time yesterday working on this site, and reviewing stuff :) Signed up for Google Adsense/Analytics.

As with always I have found something new and interesting in linux :) Final Fantasy XI for Linux :) I have posted the whole howto here: FFXI@WineHQ

So take a look :) Im also looking for suggestions for articles so please feel free to email me @ melinko2003@gmail.com with them. :)

Infusion: Triple Crisp Strawberry

Ingredients:

1x Bottle of 750ml Vodka ( Costco Generic, Grey Goose, Smirnoff, Sky )
2x cartons of Strawberries
1x shot 2oz glass of Generic Everclear
1x funnel
2x Empty 750ml bottle
3x coffee filters

Steps:

1. Remove 1 cup of Vodka from the bottle.
2. Use potato skinner to remove red skins from 2/3 a carton of strawberries.
NOTE: Avoid getting the white part past the skin, but a little is ok.
3. slice strawberry skins thinly so they will fit in the bottles neck with out forcing them.
4. place the berry skins in the bottle and seal bottle so it is air tight.
5. Let rest until skins are white. ( 24 to 48 hours )
6. Wet a coffee filter and put it in a funnel.
7. Place funnel neck into another 750ml bottle.
8. Slowly pour vodka so it will filter through the coffee filter, and into the bottle below catching the fruit.
9. Bag white fruit and freeze.
NOTE: For the fruit you can either fondue it / chocolate dip it / or use it in blended fruit alc. beverages.
10. Repeat steps 2-9 two additional times.
11. Add shot of everclear to infusion to restore alc. content.
12. Enjoy - add simple syrup as needed.

Back on the weightloss crusade

Yea so the Holidays are over, and the anniversaries are over so I can get back to weight loss. Time to get back on the horse and break into the 200's.

Bought a Few servers!

YAY Me!

Bought a few old DL140's -> http://oink.com/misc/dl140g1/

What I got:

2x DL140 Server U1.
-Free Rails for a rackmount
-NO CDROM ( Didnt want )
-80GB PATA HD
-1GB ECC Ram ( Single Chip - Upgrade costs ~60$ to 4GB )
-3.06 Ghz Xeon Processor (single CPU - Ideal Mate for it ~80$ )
-2xGigbit Ethernet ( btw - Both work with Ubuntu 9.10 )

So yea, the form factor was what I was looking for, for the price I was looking for. I had to make a install on a stick with Ubuntu 9.10 server. Plugged it in, and ran installer with success! Needless to say, I still haven't unwrapped the second one yet though.

Needless to say it works like a dream, and ill be excited to play with them a bit.

Working with Php

Nothing like banging your head against a brick wall....

HAHAHA - Php for you some times .. >.> So the deal is I have picked up a more significant amount of marketing responsibility with my company lately and it has basically forced me to learn PHP to create WUI tools to use.

So Im basically going to have to learn how to build classes and use them for larger sorting.

Interesting though :)

Hackintosh

It seems like, the if not even more rogue "group of hackintosh" might hit a stumbling block:

http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/31/hackintosh-netbook-users-take-note-snow-leopard-10-6-2-update-kills-support-for-atom-processor/

which let me make something clear - QUIT SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT APPLE!

I mean do we all really have to pay for your overpriced laptops with sub-par parts. What is so hard about being a bit more like linux? Why not extend a development branch to arm/mips-el/amd - kernel drives and kernel building kit would be a appreciated. Why not have broader hardware support like the BSD's/Linux? ffs make a modular Kernel with autodetect and activate driver support! your a multi million if not billion company - challenge yourself!

-Dont charge 1800$ for a 30" monitor thats CRAP! they are much cheaper online for the same or better parts.
-Dont charge 900$ for a 24" monitor - where I have found one for 250$ that is comparable if not better.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME IM PAYING ALMOST 3x more for a stupid logo?? REALLY?! Your no better then micro-shaft with there bloatware OS! Im mean really what would hurt if you took a page from some of the Community maintained OS's out there?

- Better support
- More Architectures
- More Driver choices
- Reasonable if not competitive with retail prices
- Commission based OS application development

I once heard a Microsoft sales guy say something very,very true as much as I hated hearing it, it had a ring of truth:

"You meet many pure Linux and Windows developers, but when was the last time you ever met a pure Mac developer?"

In truth I've never met a "Mac only developer" in fact i've met very few Linux developers that will even touch MAC's and the few that do develop there software for MAC's none of them do any such "Hardware/firmware" level development.

I can see it your way though too -a high level of "working" products with "quality" but what makes you any better or different from Microsoft. I have yet to see a difference.

MIT Open Courseware

Apparently "open" course guidelines and such for structured classes from MIT and a few other one off online schools.

http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/10/28/100-incredible-open-courses-for-the-ultimate-tech-geek/

So far i've actually worked through the beginners Python class. Its not bad.