Monthly Archives: May 2010

Blackberry Launchers and Icons

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Administrator

To add a desktop application or web bookmark icon on the Blackberry desktop … you need a signed Java app (aka launcher) and icon file. BBLauncher.com allows non-programmers, or programmers who don’t want to pay RIM $20.00 for a master … Continue reading →

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PENLUG Meeting: Linux Open-Source Virtualization Roadmap

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Administrator

Jamie Cameron, the author of Webmin, did a talk on linux virtualization at Peninsula Linux Users Group (PENLUG) in the Bayshore Technology Park in Redwood City tonite. He’s working on 2 new products, Virtualmin and Cloudmin, so has had to … Continue reading →

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Diet Tips

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Administrator

Various diet tips I’ve seen in the media. In the grocery store: Buy from the store perimeter (vegetable produce) not interior (processed food in boxes) Don’t buy anything your grandmother didn’t eat (ie. one-word ingredients lists are natural) 20 Little … Continue reading →

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ClusterIt dtop Command Ported to Linux

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Administrator

The light-weight ClusterIt toolkit mostly worked on linux, but dtop (distributed top) still expected BSD-style top syntax. Here’s a diff I wrote to make dtop work on recent versions of Linux (tested on CentOS 5.5 x86_64): $ diff dtop.org.c dtop.c … Continue reading →

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Mapreduce and Hadoop Links

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Administrator

This is a placeholder post for Mapreduce and Hadoop links. (I operate a small 64-core cluster, and am always looking for ways to keep it busy with FOSS like Hadoop.) hadoop.apache.org Cluster Setup Cloudera.com Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic … Continue reading →

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