This is a revision of my earlier assessment that tsclient is so slow it's useless. The thing came back to life somehow and it looks like it's thanks to either Dell or Microsoft. I upgraded to Karmic over Christmas with some hope that it might fix tsclient, but nothing changed. Then the server in Atlanta [...]

My migration to Ubuntu has just hit a major snag.
I spend most of my work day connected to a Windows Server 2003 machine sitting in a colocation facility in Atlanta. I write and run Stata code on it, use the MS Office products, a bit of Gmail -- the usual stuff. As it turns out, [...]

The books I'm reading these days come with examples of code, saved on associated web sites. Sometimes that code is neatly packaged into a zip archive or tarball, with every piece of code sitting in a directory named after the chapter it was referenced in. But other times these web sites have the code sitting [...]

Today I had to install TOra with Oracle support. That was interesting. TOra is on the Synaptic list, but if you install it from there you only get PostgreSQL support. For anything else you need to build TOra from source. Instructions are here, courtesy of Brad Hudson. Follow them. In particular, do not skip [...]

Windows 7 has been officially launched after favorable pre-release reviews, but my own hankering has been to eventually replace my Windows XP Pro with some kind of UNIX. After a brief look at PC-BSD, I kind of fell into using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS for most of the year on my testing machine.
Over the weekend I [...]

I have 10 days or so before the fall semester at NC State starts, and with it an online course on assembly language. So in the meantime I thought I'd visit here and learn me some Python. I like that the lessons come with problem sets.
OK, so that's the setup for this post, which is [...]

Local access to an NFS share is useful enough that I want it enabled by default, without the need for the mount command as shown in my previous post.
This default access to the server share also goes by the name "auto-mount". You have two options for setting it up: using the autofs utility or a [...]

I set up Samba a while back, and that turned out to be a great way to get stuff I used to keep on separate Windows computers all in one place on the FreeBSD box, as readily accessible as if they were still on the original local hard drives. Now I'd like to do the [...]

I'm messing around with Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Latitude D400 that got a new lease on life with a refurbished keyboard, battery, hard drive, an extra 1G of RAM and new rubber feet. Hey, the rubber feet are important. The times may be tough, and this little box may be old, but I won't [...]