Raunchy Launchy & Katapult – Quicksilver for Windows & Linux

I’ve longed for the day when I could do away with my “Programs Menu” altogether. I had been searching for something to do this kind of thing for a while when I came across Quicksilver for Macintosh. Those Macintosh people sicken me. How dare they have something so cool? If you’re a software whore like …

All that is not one..

“All that is not One must ever Suffer with the wound of Absence And whoever in Love’s city Enters, finds but room for One And but in One-ness, Union.” Full Name: Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman (1414-92) Jami was a Persian (Sufi) Poet born near Herat, Afghanistan. Nearly 100 works are attributed to him but is …

My Linux Distributions of Choice

A long, long time ago (actually not THAT long ago) I started to play with Linux. My very first Linux Distribution began with Corel Linux 1.0. I think I did finally get it installed but lo’ and behold that was as far as I got. Knowing very little else to do from there, I wiped …

VMWare, SANs and Replicating on the cheap

Yesterday, I attended the Virtualization Forum here in Sydney and thanks to Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s vice president of datacenter and desktop platform, my eyes were opened about not only the current but additionally the future possibilities of Virtualization. One of my biggest areas of interest in this regard is High Availability and Data Recovery. These …

Essential Firefox Add-ons for Internet Addicts

Here’s a quick list of my favourite “can’t live without” firefox extensions. ColorZilla  – In-page Colorpicker / Advanced EyedropperFireftp – A fully featured FTP Add-onTab Mix Plus – Better Tab control & Session SupportWeb Developer – A brilliant array of tools for Web developers, can’t live without it.Mouse Gestures – Can’t surf without mouse gesturesInfoRSS …

Putty -> CentOS / RHEL Termcap linewrap settings

I have this weird line wrapping issue when using putty on CentOS so that when path names exceed 80 characters, it wraps onto the same line and deletes the text showing me my current path. I am no Termcap guru, but the old-school Unix Termcap gurus here at work gave me this fix that they …

Troubleshooting Slow Logins on Windows 2000 Terminal Services

Troubleshooting Slow Logins on Windows 2000 Terminal Services with roaming profiles / Outlook freezing when opening an attachment from Exchange Server (On Terminal Services and Fat Client). How are these 2 problems related? First let me describe the environment. Windows 2000 Active Directory 1x Raid 1 / Raid 5 with 2x Pentium 3 / 1gb …

Firefox has finally won me over..

Last week, I finally bowed down to the power that is Firefox. So where have I been, you may ask? I have been hanging my Internet based washing on Opera (Linux) and Maxthon (Windows) for the last couple of years. Let me explain why: First at work, I (still) use Windows 2000 as my workstation. …