General

It’s been 4 years since my last post – wow!

Welcome to VirtJunkie! As the name implies, I want a place to write about things I’m looking at or am interested in relating to Virtualization (and automation).

A lot has changed for me since my last post. Shortly after my last post,  I started working for a large Swiss bank that prohibited me from contributing to a blog. I left that company and spent 3 years at Solarwinds where I shouldhave been contributing to this blog more, but I didn’t. It’s my goal here to provide high quality, relevant content.

I’m starting a new category called “Personal” on this blog.  I find it pretty boring just talking about tech related / howto stuff all the time.  Seeing as how it’ JonHoweOnline.com and not JonHowesTechOnlyBlog.com I’m going to act accordingly.

I’m a big fan of Bolthouse Juices. Up until today I’ve only tried the strawberry bananna flavor. Unfortunately, I’m getting sick of that one, so I tried a new flavor, the Green Goodness flavor.

It tasted pretty good, but it definitely looked disgusting, see for yourself:

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So, as most people know, the Xbox360 was recently released. With this came the hope to upgrade from the Xbox to the newer version.

I’m not much of a gamer anymore, but I did always want an Xbox, (mainly for the opportunity to mod it). So, I went onto Ebay and found an Xbox in perfect working condition for under 100 dollars and purchased it.

We’ll see what happens with the modding part, because the Mod chip that I want to get runs around 75 bucks for a solder-less connection. I’m pretty sure that I could solder one on myself, but I don’t want to take the chance of messing up the first console that I’ve ever owned.

I just opened up registration to everyone that wants to join the site. There will be some member specific content / features coming soon, so register now and be notified when new features are available.

Later,
Jon Howe

The website that I mentioned earlier is almost done, all that has to be done is make a minor addition to it, which should be done by Friday.

Next week I’ll be doing some pretty heavy quality testing to make sure that everything works as it should. After that I’ll have a link up for you to check it out, and a temporary account for you to use.

I’m really liking web design / programming. I actually have another project in mind already. I really can’t talk about it, but here’s a hint and a request for help: “Does anyone know an aircraft pilot?”.

Gmail is down! What am I to do. I’m lost.

Other than that…

It’s really early, and I’m up, thanks to the fact that I went to bed, well, really early. I have a speech due on Thursday at 5:45 PM that I have to get done. My goal is to knock most of that out today.

I’ve been using this free open source email server that is really nice called Hula-Project. Novell Helped out the Hula-project by releasing a ton of it’s source code for the projects use. While the project isn’t in a full release state yet, the beginnings of it (which I have been running with no problem for months) have been working fine.

This week’s command is: uname

This command is used to list out miscellaneous information about your system.
The syntax is as follows: uname [OPTION]...

I usually use this to find out exactly what kernel release I’m using. (no, I’m not geeky enough to memorize each kernel that I use)

Here’s the usage (taken from the console with modification):
-a, --all print all information, in the following order: -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name (for me this prints Linux) -n, --nodename print the hostname of your computer -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release number -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version -m, --machine print the machine hardware name (for me this prints i686) -o, --operating-system print the operating system --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit

This week’s command is: useradd.

This command is used to add new users to your linux system. The syntax is as follows:
useradd [options] [user]

The following was taken from a great site for learning about linux commands(ss64.com) and will further explain the command:

OPTIONS
-c comment Comment field.

-d dir Home directory.
The default is to use user as the directory name
under the home directory specified with the -D option.