Posts tagged with: linux

The reality is that, today, ZFS is way better than btrfs in a number of areas, in very concrete ways that make using ZFS a joy and make using btrfs a pain, and make ZFS the only choice for many workloads.  Even in single-disk laptop or desktop configurations, ZFS has a number of advantages over btrfs that will make your life much easier.— How ZFS continues to be better than btrfs — Rudd-O.com in English  Continue reading ►

Several weeks ago I took the plunge and upgraded my work laptop to run Ubuntu 11.10 and after switching to Gnome Shell, all has gone well and I've grown accustomed to the way Gnome 3 works.  Continue reading ►

How would you like to run Solaris, Windows or even Linux on your iPad? I know, it's sad and geeky and you probably don't want to, however sometimes you need to do real work for a short period of time with what resources are at hand, namely your iPad.  Continue reading ►

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I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it's own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:$ xclipboardError: another clipboard is already running$Of course, ps(1M) will show no clipboard related processes running. This is because the functionality is performed by Gnome itself, I believe, as part of the functionality of gnome-settings-daemon.One of my colleagues gave me the challenge of getting xclipboard working on Gnome on OpenSolaris/Nevada, ie Gnome 2.6, and I found it quite easy to do in the end.The trick is to tell Gnome not to perform this functionality anymore as follows:  Continue reading ►

Whilst I'm primarily a Solaris/OpenSolaris man, I do like to keep myself in touch with the Linux world - partly out of necessity and partly out of curiosity. I run Ubuntu (sticking with my African roots and because it's the best distro I've used) on my very very very old laptop (need) and also within VirtualBox on my Mac (curiosity).  Continue reading ►

The time right now, in seconds since epoch, is exactly...  Continue reading ►

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As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it's still alpha).When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask myself "Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?". I don't think there is a single Flash application out there that has reached the constraints of a 32-bit environment and I doubt a single Flash developer has wished he had a full 64-bit address space, nor do I think they ever will.What's more, Firefox, in which you're likely to be running the Flash player is only 64-bit if you compile it yourself. Why do you need a 64-bit version of Firefox anyway? Are there plans for it to gobble up even more memory than it used to?Anyway, I headed over to the Adobe Flash Player 10 labs site to see what this was all about, and then I found my answer, I think:  Continue reading ►