Bleeding edge of development – upgrading system and ANT stops working

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I run Debian Unstable as my main desktop system. I shoot myself in the foot couple of times a year with the upgrades but I like using the bleeding edge of development.
Today after my “regular” upgrade I noticed that one of the ANT tasks did not perform as I would have expected.

/home/toomasr/workspace/project/build.xml:459: The following error [...]



It is possible to run Chrome under Linux

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Although very unstable and not that functional there exist Ubuntu packages (they work under Debian also) for Google Chrome (named chromium-browser though), see https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa



When a machine does not boot and is across the Atlantic

Monday, September 15th, 2008

I’m no administrator but I do have to keep an eye on some machines and do some administrative tasks. I was able to bring a machine down by doing a dist-upgrade and accidentally upgrading a kernel without a necessary network module. I learned a lot from this experience :)
I’m in Estonia and the server is [...]



Wow, Commandline Tools Evolved

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

There is a nice piece, Sexy clones of classic Unix tools. Even if you are happy with top (display Linux tasks) just give htop a try and be amazed.