http://mrpogson.com One man. Closing, all the windows. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:36:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/12/i-hate-the-wind/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/12/i-hate-the-wind/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:44:10 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=201 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Do not get me wrong. I am not irrational. The wind in Canada’s Arctic can kill you without hesitation. It can blow at 50 to 80 km/h for days even with a temperature of -30C like today. It shakes the building. It is a constant roaring, whistling, rustling and creaking. It is hard to walk [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/12/i-hate-the-wind/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:36:57 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=170 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } My school has a powerful server, idling, and a mess of sissy servers, also idling. Server consolidation is in order. They all run that other OS. They need a server running GNU/Linux to run various web applications. The solution: VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems. Virtual Box is a hypervisor for virtual machines. One installs VirtualBox, creates [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/feed/ 4 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/13/excitement-about-thin-clients/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/13/excitement-about-thin-clients/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:46:37 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=151 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/13/excitement-about-thin-clients/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2008/06/07/madness-with-lots-of-zeroes/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/06/07/madness-with-lots-of-zeroes/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:18:21 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=89 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } An article on ZDnet caught my eye, “Vienna Hobbles Open Source”. Sheesh! Vienna was in the process of migrating to GNU/Linux with OpenOffice.org from 2000. They had about 1000 machines of 32000 migrated when a decision was taken to migrate to Vista/2007. Madness! The rationale? They needed IE to access a particular web app that [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/06/07/madness-with-lots-of-zeroes/feed/ 0