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My tweetsThis is part 2 to my earlier post “A Linux crash, burn and recover experience“. I had mentioned in there that I plan to use a Virtual Machine (VM) strategy for easy backup and porting in future. However, the reality forced me to abandon the approach. It could also be that I don’t know the trade secrets 
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I had a chance to beta test the upcoming release of Windows OS, version 7. I didn’t have any expectations for the Windows Vista successor; I have downgraded all my factory-installed Vista systems to Windows XP within 15 minutes … I was pleasantly surprised with what Microsoft had done this time though :O
One of my trustworthy RHEL servers which was up (virtually) for 4+ years and served thousands of users over-the-web recently crashed. As data in the server was critical, we had to undertake a salvage operation before re-install. This post is my experience of recovering the server’s data and also some of the lessons learned and new strategies evolved for configuring future resilient server…
Exactly, 8 months ago to this date I had a chance to visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, United States. The exhibition was one of the largest I have ever been to. It featured exhibits from multiple disciplines of Science and was lively, interactive and very well maintained. Even with a few stop-by’s it took us ~6 hours to cover it. I recommend a visit to the museum if you are in Chicago.
One of the exhibits that captured my interest was on computer criminals…
If you have Linux running on a PS3 you would be delighted to know that IBM has released an update to the IBM CELL SDK version 3.1. The earlier version 3.0 was officially supported only on Fedora 7 and this version is supported on Fedora 9. This is very welcome given that Fedora 9 is a much improved version compared to Fedora 7. At the same time, it still falls short of the latest version, Fedora 10.
This post is my experience, good and not-so-good, on my first stab into triple booting on a laptop.
Ok, I started with WinXP obviously since the OS always overwrites the MBR entirely and hence a bad choice as a second or third OS. I created one system partition for WinXP OS+apps and one user partition for what we care most about. Both are NTFS. Also, I don’t have any plans to move to Vista in the shorter term also.
Next, I choose to install RHEL5. The reason is that, RHEL5 is a more mature and slow-moving linux distribution and has typical life-cycle of about 2 years between major releases. Compared with this, Ubuntu’s objective is to bring to the end-user latest, greatest software every 6 months. Since I normally move to the latest Ubuntu version by default, I thought having RHEL in first as second OS is a good decision.
So, I installed RHEL with a /boot, /, /home, swap partitions and checked that everything was in order with the root and a normal user accounts. So far, so good…
Now, my first question…
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