So I’ve been using the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition on my laptop since its release and I must say that its a huge improvement since their last LTS release which I was running prior. I was previously on a dual boot configuration but I have been so satisfied with the current state of Ubuntu that I have not felt the need to boot into Windows at all. Anything I need to do on Windows has been far and few between lately and terminal services is just a click away, not to mention wine 1.0, wow has that come along way. Sure this version of ubuntu has its bugs but what doesn’t, and its not necessarily the bugs that bug me, but its the annoyances that get under my skin, sometimes caused by bugs or just design issues or lack of features. The previous Ubuntu LTS was filled with so many annoyances that it drove me crazy sometimes, such as WPA support out the box, buggy suspend/hibernation modes,ipod recognition, audio/video/codec annoyances and numerous other minor issues that just left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Their has been very little that has annoyed me with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I have never been a huge fan of Ubuntu, but it was the lesser of three evils. I still haven’t gotten to the point where I feel I need to migrate all my debian installations to ubuntu, but this desktop lts version might persuade me to at least give the ubuntu server version another shot. I had a horrendous experience with the last ubuntu server version and I havent looked back since. I dont remember what the exact issues were but debian was just so much less of a headache. And with the lenny branch frozen with a pending release in september this may be a good time to start evaluating my options that will be runnin on my servers for the next couple of years. So thanks to the Ubuntu/Debian teams for releasing a great product. Its been a pleasure.
The Dan Kaminsky Microsoft DNS Patch Sideeffect
Dan Kaminsky’s Microsoft Patch has an unexpected benefit for LVS users…
Gentoo - PHP - Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_alnum()
If you need access to any of the ctype functions such as ctype_alnum() in any of your php applications and you are running gentoo, make sure you add the ctype use flag or you will get this lovely error :).
cfengine, can’t stat in copy and reverse dns
Well I’ve been using cfengine for a number of years now and thought I had paid my dues already when I initially took on its steep learning curve… Well today I had a little run in with cfengine that made me feel as frustrated as when I was a newbie to this software, but I […]
Ldirectord missing dependency in Debian
So i came across this the other day while trying to configure ldirectord to load balance pop3 services.
Can’t locate Mail/POP3Client.pm
It seems there is a missing dependency that is specific to debian etch I believe. I was a little disappointed as I’ve had little other issues with LVS and ldirectord but the fix was easy […]
Slackware 12.1
Slackware has been a staple in the linux community since the beginning and its great to see another release as this distribution evolves thanks to the hard work by Patrick J. Volkerding. Slackware 12.1 was released yesterday and boasts a 2.6.24.5 kernel, and of course the simplicity, stability and security we’ve always expected and recieved […]
OpenBSD 4.3 released
OpenBSD 4.3 was publicly released on schedule last week with astonishing amount of improvements, new features, and bug fixes. Hats off to the OpenBSD Developers that are putting out some great work to make a stable and reliable product.
However, I must say, I did notice some bug fixes in the changelogs that I’ve actually came […]
xen filling up /var/ partition
So the other day I noticed my /var partition filled up in on my Dom0. One of the symtoms was not allowing me to start up any more DomU’s. So I tracked the disk usage to /var/lib/xen/save. There were files of each of my running dom u’s here which were the culprit.
Apparently, on a […]
rsync bug
The rsync folks just recently released rsync 3.0 last month with a bug-fix release and a security release earlier this month. Unfortunately, after upgrading one of my critical systems that feeds a cluster of about 10 machines, I ran into an ugly little bugger that prevented my cluster’d nodes from successfully pulling there data […]
rsync 3.0.2 wildcard bug…
The rsync folks just recently released rsync 3.0 last month with a bug-fix release and a security release earlier this month. Unfortunately, after upgrading one of my critical systems that feeds a cluster of about 10 machines, I ran into an ugly little bugger that prevented my cluster’d nodes from successfully pulling there data […]