Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Easy come, easy go...

Slackers broke into the car on a public street in broad daylight in front of witnesses and took:

mobile-edge backpack
dell insprion 6000
dell latitude d620 (in my possession for 4 days)
two power dell bricks
pelican m-1 led flashlight
nokia bluetooth keyboard

part of my soul

Monday, July 17, 2006

Playinging with Parallels

So, my initial approach was to install it on the new windows box so that I could run an instance of fedora core 5 on top of it. The default mode for networking appears to be to bridge parallel's private network interface which is shared with the virutal machines to one of of your network interfaces. For some reason the guest could not in fact see the dhcp response even though running tcpdump reveleaed that packets from the external interface were making it to the internal network... It is possbile that this has something to do with the windows firewall. I disabled it for testing purposes and it didn't appear to make a difference.

My quick and dirty solution was simply to enable internet connection sharing and treat the Parallels network as though it were the internal private network . Notwithstanding the joys of nat, that's probably saner anyway because static ip's can now be enabled on each of the guests and they can still talk to the outside world... Not sure what to do about IPV6 at this point.

Monday, July 10, 2006

whr-g54s now $39.95

Guess I should pick up a couple before they get discontinued...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833162173

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Parallels Workstation...

Seems a lot cheaper than vmware these days...

http://www.parallels.com/

Saturday, July 01, 2006

mirror with freebsd geom...

I was sort of wondring how to do this so a tutorial is kind of nice.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html

I'm sure that I will shortly be doing this on 2 drive 1u servers to keep the costs down.