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If you follow me here, you know I’m in the market for a new laptop and that I’m fairly certain which features I need. VT-x support is mandatory for me.

Intel has a VT-x support list and it is nice, but it actually is not a list of processors with VT-x support at all. It is a list of processor families with DHTML hooks to see the sub-list intermixed with processors that have and don’t have VT-x features, not what I want. I’m seeking a single list of processors that have VT-x support, period. I don’t want to see any processors without vt-x in the list. Intel is missing the point.

If there was a table with a VT-x column, then I could filter it easily. Any pointers to the list I seek or should I just go with an AMD processor since it appears any of them made in the last 2 years includes AMD-V, their version of VT-x, support.

Ok, so Intel isn’t hiding their processors, but they certainly aren’t making it easy. At least Wikipedia is helpful

Xen as a Dom0 is not supported in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) by Canonical. Both Canonical and Redhat have decided to get behind the KVM virtualization method instead. I think this was a choice driven by the required maintenance effort, since KVM hooks have been in the baseline Linux Kernel for about a year and Xen inclusion into the Linux kernel doesn’t seem likely at any point in the future. Supporting Xen kernels is just too tough.

This morning an email was waiting from a travel friend. It was this link – http://www.galeriaelcuartito.com.ar/ – lot’s of FLASH, sorry.

I think that this week is 2 years since we visited this fantastic pizzeria in Buenos Aires. We enjoyed it enough to eat there twice – including the last night in town.

Since returning from that trip, I’ve had pizza, but only about 5 times. I’ve been ruined because I thought that I knew good pizza. I was wrong all these years. None of them compare. To me, El Cuartito has THE BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD …. so far. It is cheap too. Primera buenos!

Solved – Ubuntu 10.04 Dual Monitor with nVidia Driver

With every Ubuntu OS version update, we risk losing our dual monitor support. Through a cockpit error, I found myself performing a fresh install of Ubuntu this week. After getting all the important things working, it was time to correct the dual monitor issue.

If you are running any version of Lucid Lynx with X/Windows, these instructions should work. There is nothing specific to Gnome or KDE or any other environment here. Heck, they may work for older releases too.

My Setup

What’s that saying? Some days you eat the bear and other days the bear eats you.
Or perhaps Stupid is as stupid does fits.

Ooops is something you never want to hear your system/network admin say. I’ve heard it said elsewhere and then watched as 200+ NASA servers all started rebooting. No time to save your work. No time to do anything before the screen flickers and a bios screen is displayed.

Today, I said, “ooops.”

The story is a little old, but it was new to me and I figured many people here would also be interested.

The presentation is by Mr. Rutan, famous aviator and aerospace engineer. Here’s an overview. The full PPT presentation isn’t without flaws, but using longer term temperature and CO2 data, it shows how the presentation that Vice President Gore and other we’re all gonna die people has been selected for effect.

I do system patching on servers every Saturday morning during a maintenance period. Almost always, nothing goes wrong. I’ve seen some really big patch sets for huge, complex systems go in cleanly … then there’s Java. Every Java update causes some kind of problem for Adito.

Here’s the fix to the latest and most future Java update issues with Adito … I hope.

Today the roofers are here putting up a new roof. I had a leak, but only when it rained REALLY hard – perhaps once a year. The old roof was 16+ yrs old, so it was about time. About half the neighborhood homes already have new roofs.

The guys were all here before 7:30a and ready to go. The weather today is going to be a perfect day for this – clear, sunny, highs in the lower 80s. No rain expected until after midnight. Perfect.

I’ll try to take a few photos during the day to capture some of the progress. As the day goes on, I’m learning about more leaks and bad design than I already knew. The leader is explaining how and why they happened. I trust him. I’ll explain below.

I came across another Top 12 List today. This one is about Live System Monitoring Tools# for Linux.

We use most of them almost daily.

Here’s the list from the article.

Let’s assume you are middle class and would like to retire as middle class. How much money do you need to support that lifestyle? What is the annual amount of that lifestyle today? $40K, $60K, $80K per year? Let’s assume $60K/yr buys you the middle class retired life. You won’t be jetting around the world every year, but you can afford to eat out and have a few hobbies.

I hope the tables turn out readable.