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Separating a running job from the shell

There’s a little-known, but oh so useful, bash builtin called disown – We’ve all started a job that ends up taking way longer than anticipated, now you really wish you had backgrounded it to begin with, or had used Screen. … Continue reading

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Installing XenServer Linux Guest Support

It’s happend a number of times that I’ve had to install Citrix XenServer and have not had the Linux Guest Support CD with me, so I’ve later had to install it remotely, which is actually pretty easy. Transfer ISO file … Continue reading

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Dell and HP to certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM

Finally some good news from Oracle, and a speck of hope that OpenSolaris will continue on the same path as before.  On July 29th Oracle announced in a press release that HP and Dell will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, … Continue reading

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