Mental notes to myself

You’ve just bought a new dedicated server, what should you do before moving?
Check what is promissed and what is given!

1. Check the CPU
   # dmesg | grep "CPU:"
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2813.54-MHz 686-class CPU)
2. Memory
   #dmesg | grep memory
real memory = 1072627712 (1022 MB)
avail memory = 1040084992 (991 MB)
3. Hard Disk
   #di -th | grep Total
Total 104.4G 1.2G 94.8G 9%

4. Number of IPs (I’ve masked my ips with ?)
   
#ifconfig -a | grep inet
inet ??.???.??.?? netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast ??.???.?.?
inet ??.???.??.?? netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast ??.???.?.?
inet ??.???.??.?? netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast ??.???.?.?
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000


It was just yesterday we were joking about Intel Macs and thinking when we’re going to see a Wiki about how to boot linux on Intel Macintosh .
Fast enough here is that wiki.

ovell expects the cost of upgrading to Vista will encourage many companies to turn to Linux instead.

link to the article.

I was reading this article about “Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age” and one of the arguments was about the screen corners:

The irony is that we argue about whether systems should be application-centered or document-centered, probably the two most important entities in a computer. Have you ever seen a system which lets you, out-of-the-box, hit a corner in order to do anything at all even remotely related to anything having anything at all to do with a document or application? So maybe documents aren’t the most important entity in a computer. Browse the internet by hitting the screen corner? Check mail in the screen corner? Get Info in the screen corner? System preferences in the screen corner? Switching applications in the screen corner?

And this argument makes more sense after seeing SymphonyOS: a Desktop computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix GNU/Linux.

I seems some people out there is really working on human computer interfaces…
Great job. I’m impressed.