Tag Archives: linux

Hans of RieserFS reveals body

July 8, 2008 – 11:41 pm

ReiserFS was the file system of choice for Novell Suse for several years. Strangely, they stopped using ReiserFS around the time Hans murdered his ex-wife. Their reasons seem strategically unrelated.
Also strange is that development will continue with the Reiser name: Reiser4, a branch of ReiserFS. I’d have thought the community would be keen to separate […]

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Getting a dev environment running quickly

April 16, 2008 – 10:59 am

It can be a real pain getting everything together, especially when upgrading software, or moving around. Today I am faced with this problem. My old development environment is dead; I have one day to get a new environment running and do some useful work. I’d also like to catch up with a friend for coffee, […]

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re-installing windows XP to dual boot with Suse Linux

January 8, 2008 – 2:17 pm

Wow… I started this exercise on Sunday, expecting windows to take a couple of hours to install and for everything to go swimmingly! If you are reading this, I probably don’t have to tell you that I was wrong!
Before talking solutions, I will describe some of my problems… and they don’t all relate to Windows, […]

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