In Part I, I discussed the idea of installing a Gentoo partition on my machine. Part II delved into the why and how of starting out, including my initial frustrations of installing Gentoo on a fresh Bootcamp partition. Now I’m going to talk about the RH portion of the CFRHB method of installing an operating [...]
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In Part I, I discussed the idea of installing a Gentoo partition on my machine. For the uninitiated, Gentoo is a Linux distribution with a source-based package management system: Applications are compiled to your native machine architecture and, fundamentally, Gentoo is designed to be completely customized… from the kernel up. This intrigued me. I didn’t [...]
Last Friday, 9:00 PM: It’s one of those quiet evenings at home: The kid’s asleep, the spouse is watching TV. I’m sitting at my desk once again debugging some nasty code (but really I’m just checking Facebook). My machine hums away, OS X chugs along just fine. Technically everything is as it should be. Background: [...]
I recently acquired an Asus Eee PC 1000 for development purposes. The default Xandros install… well, it’s just not my cup o’ tea. In fact, I hated it. So within hours of unpacking the 1000, I replaced Xandros with Ubuntu Eee, a nice little netbook-friendly Ubuntu-based 8.04 distro featuring Canonical’s Netbook Remix interface.
Our servers are now running “in the cloud.” We can now add, copy and delete instances of our servers to scale with demand.



