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Rocks Cluster rocks my socks. After battling with their FTP to grab the latest ISO, I was finally able to do a VMWare Install of version 4.2. The key for doing a VMWare install in workstation 5.5 was the following points: Create a VMWare Team Hard Drive sizes must be larger than 20 GiB Memory must be more than 640 MiB Remove the sound card and floppy In the vmware team assign all the machines to VLAN1 The Frontend must have 2 NIC, assign them both to VLAN1 till the install is done at which point you can then bridge the public interface or host-only Boot PXE when the frontend is up for the clients and all will install Let me state, Rocks is simply the best cluster software I have had the pleasure of using. Super High Five to the developers!

I am posting this so I can later go search and find it. Stupid fan was driving me nuts! Thing came on at 40 degree celcius. This meant that it ran ALL THE TIME. I could have the darn thing closed and it doing nothing…fan is on…grrr…anyways here is the fix action: ` sudo vi /etc/modules add in i2c-i810 and lm85 sudo vi /etc/rc.local echo 50000 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/i2c-0/0-002e/temp1_auto_temp_off ...

I broke down and purchased a new MP3 player after the trusty iPod Mini bit the dust. Thank you Apple for including a wonderful 6GiB CF Drive though :) Moving right along I wanted to share my thoughts from a Linux users perspective on the Sansa e240, e260, or e270. Same hardware just more storage. Pros: Once the device has been set to UMS mode you can drag and drop files onto the device ...

As a security expert I have to say that this is total hogwash with all the uproar over his script. I sure hope these same people practice AWESOME security everywhere else. And the world wonders why security professionals are referred to as “chicken littles” I started using Gmail as my primary mail application a little over a year ago. For the most part, it has been a pleasurable experience. However, to my knowledge thereis no simple way to make Gmail the default mailer in GNOME. Until now! ...