Category: Linux

Hadoop

November 26, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes […]

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Chan_Skype

September 9, 2007 - Linux , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

Dead or alive? It’s in a sorry state – it was a bit flaky to start with, and now won’t work at all. They only support Ubuntu Dapper, Skype only provide for Ubuntu Feisty – I see a conflict of support interests. They don’t seem to be interested in replying […]

MediaMultiWiki

September 4, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot […]

iSCSI

September 3, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the […]

Dell 1390 Wireless

September 2, 2007 - Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

My parents recently got a Dell Inspiron 6400, and asked for Kubuntu to be installed on it. This is all well and good until it comes to wireless support for this laptop. The 6400 uses the fairly recent Broadcom 4300 chipset, which is apparently well supported with ndiswrapper, but not […]