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OpenSuse 11.4 on HP Mini 110 – It works!

Talk about drama free install. Download the KDE LIVE ISO http://mirror.optus.net/opensuse/distribution/11.4/iso/openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso dd if=openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sde bs=8M Where /dev/sde is my 4GB USB Key. Press F10 on the HP Mini 110...

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Upgrade your network it will save you time!

Today I fired up VMWare convertor to move a 60GB Virtual Machine running as a guest on VMWare Server 2.0 on my workstation accross to a VMWare ESXi server. I kicked the process off and it guestimated the time to completion as 8hrs and 44 minutes. Hmmm... Then after...

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CakePHP Javascript Include

I read the documentation. But I must be a slow learner or something. Anyway including javascript into a view using cakephp: I am using an auto baked cake template named index.ctp For me it's located cake_app_dir/views/names/index.ctp To get the javascript script block...

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Fedora Fanboy

I know Ubuntu is getting a lot of the kudos recently for being the most popular distro. But Fedora deserves a lot of credit, if not for anything else for this: Presto reduced the update size by 80% (from 222 M to 46 M) It's yum based update system proactively checks...

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