Introduction This article describes the high-level layout of my computing infrastructure at home, facetiously called my “home cloud”. I have been operating some compute resources beyond a desktops for a long time (covering Windows Servers, SunRay setups, fiber-channel arrays, etc.),…
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Right now, I am looking into alternative multi-factor authentication solutions. There are the obvious contenders such as SecureID or smartcards, but they tend to be on the pricy side, especially if want to use them for your blog, your home…
For a number of reasons, I got myself an HP mini 1010nr with the 8GB SSD drive. It’s a nice little machine (and cheap: US$ 220), especially if you configure it with 2GB RAM and use the little “hidden” USB…
Right now, I am taking a class on Air Traffic Management (ATM), which is already yielding some very concrete useful knowledge: unbeknown to me, the FAA and NOAA have a lot of very interesting tools on the web. These web…
Working currently on an RelaxNG project, I needed to automate conversion of RNG schemas to a W3C compliant schema in NetBeans. The tool I used to perform the transform is Trang. I added this macro to the build.xml file: <macrodef…
There has already been quite some discussion on how to get Windows 7 to run under VirtualBox (bottom line: it works – just install it). Here is a litte add-on to this discussion: Running Windows 7 Beta 1 under VirtualBox…
For our current internal project, I needed a way to display images within a Java Swing application. There are probably as many solutions to this out, as there are swing programmers, but here is a quick way to get this…
Starting today, I will try to review some of the more interesting gadgets that I have been playing with. The first installment will be on the Windows Mobile phone that I won last week at TechEd. After attending a Mobile…
A small note: if you are using Lightning for Thunderbird and you install or upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), you might run into an issue of you calendars disappearing (probably only when using the build from the Lightning website): Error:…
I had a SunBlade 1000 (UltraSPARC III based) system available, so I started on a Friday afternoon project of getting Ubuntu installed on this box. Here is what I did to get a running system, including a Gnome desktop: 1.…