Intro Over the years I have been turning my desktop into a NAT router.. why for virtual machines of course! If your using 1 virtual machine the virtual machine software does it for ya, but when you want to simulate your own virtual network, separate from the LAN your desktop…
By default Fedora 12 comes with the nouveau driver.. which is awesome, but my machine at work needed a bit more video card grunt so I needed to install the Nvidia driver. Now I’m new to Fedora.. as in installed it an hour before I wrote this post, so thought…
Most Java developers know eclipse is an awesome IDE, it’s customisation and auto-completeness is great.. It even auto completes annotations in the code far ya. When added a @author annotation to some code, it’ll automatically try and add your name.. which is great, but it uses your logon name, not…
FUSE (Filesystem in userspace) gives not only non privileged users a little more power, but also allows file systems that for legal reasons cannot be linked to the kernel life on a Linux system. Thanks to this fuse layer, you can access gmail as a harddisk, ssh mount devices, and…
Chris sent me a link to this article. It’s quite a good read, it’s not bagging out Windows per say, but makes a great point about habit and how hard software is. A lot of you out there have a bad image of Linux, thinking it’s too hard and that…
I think the title says it all, I was just checking something at work and needed to run one of our Java apps using the command line, I did the standard: java -cp jarfile1.jar:jarfile2.jar au.gov. and hit tab key twice out of habit and to my surprise bash had checked…
As most IT professionals know, if you become an ‘IT guy’ you will forever be the guy friends and family goto when machines break or play up. And as IT guys we learn to accept this from an early stage, and am in fact happy to give IT support.. BUT…
I’ve been updating our ant build scripts to compile all our third party library’s from source for two reasons: So we don’t keep binary blobs under CVS, and So it is easy to distribute the source of the libraries we use. Ant is a very powerful build system, and everything…