pininthemap.com

this site looks pretty cool, i should have thought of it.  it has caused me to add a quicklink to points on gmapme.com.  good work pininthemap.com guy.

chris laptop core duo

so i gave up on running virtual windows on my linux laptop.  i'm back to the 2 laptop setup, but this time primary(more powerful) laptop is linux while lamer/gimpy laptop is windows.  i still think the best place for windows would be in a virtual machine on my linux laptop.  putting windows in it's place.

da bridge works!

i successfully set up a bridge interface for my qemu windows to use.  now qemu starts, creates a tap interface, attaches the tap to the bridge and gets it's own ip from the dhcp server.  very cool.

here are the steps:

•    modload tun
•    brctl addbr br0
•    ifconfig eth0 up
•    brctl addif br0 eth0
• vi /etc/qemu-ifup
• #!/bin/sh
  sudo -p "Password for $0:" /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
  sudo -p "Password for $0:" /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 $1
• qemu -hda hd.img -localtime -net tap -net nic

qemu update

i am pleased with qemu. windows xp is running fine, and no problems with the linux side.   i still need it to get a dhcp address from the network here though, so i'm trying this: http://m2.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopic.php?t=144.

qemu beats vmware

so, next step for the work laptop is windows vm.  bleh.  i installed the vmware viewer, and already had a winxp vmware image to use.  but i have been dissapointed with the performance.  i don't know for sure, but the vmware kernel modules and other junk that installs appear to be causing my computer to lockup for brief periods.  so now i'm trying  qemu.  it looks good so far, i'm still installing so we shall see.  reasons that this looks better than vmware:  it's free, runs as single process not a bunch of crap that can cause problems, and it's free.

the day i liberated my work laptop

i've been using ubuntu linux on my desktop at home for a few months now and i'm digging it.  i don't think that the linux desktop has quite made it to a level that the average user will switch, but ubutu has got to be the closest that it has come so far.  i still run into problems where i have to throw my sysadmin hat on and fix, but that might also be that i don't always use ubuntu as it was intended.  i'm running mythtv on my desktop, and always trying software that isn't in the official ubuntu repos.  if someone where to stick to strictly the ubuntu supplied packages i doubt that they would see any problems.

so, today is the day that i switched to ubuntu as my primary os on my work laptop.  geek independence day. 

www.gmapme.com

a learning project for me.  i'm learning python and django, along with google's maps api, and google adsense.  we are starting to use django at work, although i just have to do the server setup i thought it would be cool to learn a little more about it.