One of the really powerful features of Virtual Box is that it lets you start VMs in a headless mode. You can connect to the VMs using RDP or just let them run in the background and do their job. The problem with running a lot of VMs in headless mode is trying to determine [...]

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I just got a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W510 for work.  It’s a great machine.  Really fast.  Unfortunately, it hasn’t been suspending for me in Linux.  It starts to suspend and then fails.  It turns on the Linux module, XHCI, used for USB 3 is broken. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/522998 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623573 To remedy the problem, I just did: [...]

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I’ve been reading about Receive Packet Steering on Linux. I have heard anecdotal evidence that this can greatly improve performance. It made me wonder if you could improve performance even more by telling the kernel that you want the thread the processes the IO for a particular interface to run on the same CPU that [...]

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I landed in Atlanta last night at about 11:00PM EST bound for Apache Con US 2007. I’m traveling with my wife, Marianne, who wanted to get out and have some fun as well as get a break from the kids. We flew on Delta from Salt Lake City to Atlanta. The plane we took had [...]

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Have you ever subscribed to a mailing list that you really enjoyed and got a lot of really valuable information from? Have you then watched that list over the years deteriorate into mind numbing squabbles over the most unimportant drivel? Such is my experience with the Provo Linux Users Group (PLUG) mailing list. There was [...]

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I use Linux all the time. I’m writing this on my primary workstation, a notebook, that’s running Ubuntu 6.10. I have a cluster of computers at home running openSUSE. My home router runs IP Cop. My desktop machine runs Linux. The computer my wife uses runs Linux. The computer hosting this blog runs Linux. There [...]

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