Do virtual entities deserve names?

I've been naming my machines after World of Warcraft places, it's no surprise my Ubuntu's called IceCrown and my new Windows XP's called Barrens :) I hope none of my machines will turn into a Molten Core....

Unison

happened to glance at my #linux channel on freenode irc:

Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

great stuff

Revisiting C++

I've just had an opportunity to revist C++ programming when a good friend of mine asked me some advice on an assignment question. I've cleanly forgotten the pain of having to manage memory ... has it been that long ago since I've touch that language?

C++'s only fun when you're trying to score that assignment - hee hee.

Note to self

Installation of Solaris with 512MB ram is bad.

Back, finally

Almost half of 2009 has gone by and I've not done a single thing, I'm reviving my virtual machines and getting back to my python stuff.

I love VirtualBox

I've been playing around with VirtualBox lately, it's a lot smaller than the new VMWare Server 2, and it takes up less disk and memory footprint since VMWare Server 2.0 installs a tomcat HTTP management server by default.

I was rather biased against VirtualBox in the past, I didn't feel the need to replace my VMServer test lab till the changes in VMWare server 2.0 made me re-evaluate using VirtualBox as a test lab.

I've gotten used to having to bridge the Virtualbox network interface to the Host's LAN to enable the guest machine to connect to the Host's network ... I must admit that VMware is a a little more convenient in that aspect. I've also managed to BSOD my 64bit XP bridging the interface. I couldn't boot up either. I'll face a dump screen before even seeing the loging screen. It was caused by Comodo firewall driver, uninstalling made the BSODs go away...

Duplication of virtual harddisks isn't as simple as just doing a "cp source.vdi target.vi", you've got to use "vboxmanage clonevdi source.vdi target.vdi" but nevertheless I'm quite used to it by now.

iSCSI on Solaris

Here's a page of useful information about setting up Solaris as a iSCSI target:

http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=779


Good stuff.