Hmm… OK, this is turning out to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Still not done, in fact still scratching my head wondering how to get this working in the way I want it to work… In the meantime, here are a couple of videos that got me thinking:
In an earlier post, I talked about putting together the hardware for my home server project, next I needed to load an operating system. This is where I ran into a few problems… As my laptop runs Linux Mint day-to-day, a Windows server was never a consideration. Naively, I assumed there would be a raft […]
… or so I thought. It started OK; about a year ago, I inherited an old desktop tower case from a neighbour who moved away, a Thermaltake Kandalf. This thing is a monster – almost two feet high and 22 kg, with built-in liquid cooling. Having spent its life in the Arabian desert, it needed […]
I have just updated the Linux Mint partition on my laptop to version 15 ‘Olivia’, and moved from the MATE-based to the Cinnamon-based spin. So far, I’m very impressed. It’s built on Ubuntu 13.04, and has inherited the performance improvements of the new Ubuntu release. It boots quickly, it seems smoother and more stable than […]
I recently came across this video, which helped me understand the basics of how Openstack does what it does: I really love the idea of OpenStack – an open-source cloud platform that’s fast becoming the industry standard, and displacing the proprietary cloud standards in the market – but the underlying technology is not simple, and […]
The state of my hard drives is getting out of hand. There’s not really anything wrong with them, as such – it’s just that my distro-hopping habit has become a create-new-partition-and-install-new-distro habit. Yes, I know I could satisfy my addiction using virtual machines (I do that as well using VirtualBox or VMWare), but I quite […]
I’ve been using Ubuntu Studio since I started experimenting with Linux again last November – it’s a great, multimedia-focused distribution based on Xubuntu, and it comes with all sorts of audio, video and graphics applications pre-installed. It also has a low-latency kernel, which (in theory) means that any real-time audio or video processing should proceed […]