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10 years on: free software wins, but you have nowhere to install it (Article by Tony Mobily)

aby — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:37:26 +0000

10 years on: free software wins, but you have nowhere to install it (Article by Tony Mobily) I am typing this as I am finally connected in shell to my Android phone. The prompt reminds me that it's based on the Linux kernel (it's free), the Dalvik virtual machine (it's free), and free libraries. Millions of Android devices are shipped every day, each one is a Linux system. Today, it's phone. Soon, it will be tablets: Android 3.0 (coming out at the end of the year) will finally be very suitable for tablets. Apple alone will have to face fierce competition on pretty much every front. Microsoft... who? They are more irrelevant every day. I should be happy, right? Well, sort of. Looking back at how long it took me to get this shell prompt makes me worried. Very worried. We are heading towards a world where we no longer own the hardware we buy -- and there is no point in having free software if you can't own your hardware.

Moving!

aby — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:32:52 +0000

And so I wasn’t able to update this blog (again, for the nth time). I just don’t have enough energy to play around like I used to. Though I’m trying to get things going like finish reading a novel: The Stranger by Albert Camus. Anyway, I’ll be packing my things because we’re moving to the [...]

Google Calendar SMS Alert

aby — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:53:15 +0000

Out of whim, I enabled SMS alert of Google Calendar simply because I have this meetings every now and then and I can’t forgive myself if I’d ever miss one of those for the reason that I have forgotten about them. I tried creating a meeting invite from MS Outlook and sent invite to my [...]

Which Notebook?

aby — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:10:16 +0000

Wait! Before anything else, I already have a notebook. This is what I was given for my daily job and for on-call duties (not Call of Duty okay?). And not that I’m unsatisfied, I really am. I’m using Lenovo Thinkpad X200 and even if we’re having ups and downs, it can go at par with [...]

Which Distro?

aby — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:18:37 +0000

I’m still unsure with which distro to use for my not-so-new-not-so-old home desktop. My current HW is running on XP simply because I’m not the only one who uses it but now that my mom is getting the hang of using her notebook and my dad has his own HW too, I get to have [...]

I learned something new

aby — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:51:07 +0000

I’ve recently encountered a disk space issue in FreeBSD and thought it’s a normal disk space problem. But then again, I’m wrong. Even if the file has been moved to another location, whenever I checked for utilization, I’d get the same percentage. The thing is, the file I moved is active and is used by [...]

Note to self about IPA

aby — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:41:37 +0000

I got cranky with all the inconsistency that I went through during my deployment. But here are some of what woke me up big time: That IPA-client can’t pull keytab from master server; That IPA doesn’t like incorrect hostname. It has to be the right one up to the domain level; That IPA uses A [...]

MySQL default directory for FreeBSD and Linux

aby — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:22:14 +0000

Just learned something interesting. That the default directory for MySQL installed in FreeBSD is /var/db/mysql and for Linux it’s in /var/lib/mysql.

Samba Daemons

aby — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:38:57 +0000

I once asked: When you restart samba, how many daemons do you see? The answer is 2. There’s smbd and nmbd. But when asked how many daemons comprised samba? The answer is 3. smbd, nmbd and winbindd. The first 2 daemons run in a linux server installed with samba package. On the other hand, windbindd [...]

Redhat IPA

aby — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:42:34 +0000

Yesterday, I subscribed linux servers to an IPA server and actually tested logging in using my IPA account. IPA (Identity, Policy, Audit) is the AD (Active Directory) counterpart for nix machines. And it’s really cool subscribing linux machines via console. hehe. As for IPA’s pre-requisites, it’s A and PTR records. Aside from that, it requires [...]