Category Archives: computers

Stumbling Through KMDB with New Hardware

Posted on August 25, 2011 by jgrafton

Recently, I refreshed my home workstation from an AMD X-2 based system with an ASUS A8N socket 939 motherboard to a brand spanking new Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K based system with a Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 motherboard.  Debian Squeeze runs lightening fast!  … Continue reading →

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“Wait… is that billions?”

Posted on August 19, 2011 by jgrafton

Ironically, after yesterday’s post about Oracle’s caviler attitude toward dealing with communities built around open software, a piece of died-in-the-wool proprietary software stepped out of Oracle’s (ever growing) stable of software, neighed a couple of times, stamped it’s feet and kicked … Continue reading →

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Oracle-ish Anxiety

Posted on August 18, 2011 by jgrafton

For the past year, I have suffered from what I’ve churlishly dubbed as Oracle-ish Anxiety.  It’s the feeling that at any moment, Oracle may greedily yank a technology that I depend upon, kicking and screaming, from the clutches of the public domain. OpenSolaris … Continue reading →

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Distributed Version Control FTW

Posted on July 24, 2011 by jgrafton

Linus Torvalds gives a good talk on the evilness of Subversion and CVS and the benefits of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS).  It’s pretty interesting.  I prefer Mercurial versus Git myself but the idea is the same.  Having a copy … Continue reading →

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