SheLTeR: id’s blog

For some weird reasons, Ubuntu team has varnished all vserver-enabled kernels from their repos. And this is the only virtualization technology i’m familiar well with. We use vserver for about 1.5 year, have created some advanced configurations and, despite of all limitations like iptables being unusable inside guest or hacks to use nfs, it served very well to us being stable and causing minimum overhead.
So, after unsuccessful story with Xen for development environment of one of our projects, i’ve decided to install verver on ubuntu whatever it takes. So, here’s a brief guide on how to do it on gutsy(7.10) - i’ve installed it because somehow thought there was no vserver kernel in hardy(8.04) because it used 2.6.24xx, while vserver latest patches are for 2.6.22.19. (more…)

Довели. 2 дня я занимаюсь тем, что пытаюсь намано установить ОС на 2 новых сервера в нашем датацентре, используюя для этого KVM, установочные диски и чат с саппортом датацентра (”перенесите квм туда”, “диск мона вынимать” и т.п.). Прошлый раз у нас всё прошло гладко, может потому, что планировали как-то, а может это просто мне надо почистить карму. (more…)

Hah, yah, it’s quiet a popular thing to write about FF extensions one uses. The reason which made me writing this post is that I’ve found ones i need. So here’s the list of extensions i use in my Firefox 3:
 

• - Download Statusbar - a pretty common one, simply makes download process usable and good-looking;
• - Session Manager - oh, this is the first one i install on any firefox, that’s for sure;
• - TabsOpenRelative - this one makes “Open in a new tab” open the content in the tab next to the current, not to the last one;
• - AdBlockPlus - after installing this one, firefox, especially flash plugin on sites like n n m dot r u and z a i t s e v dot n e t consumes much less CPU;
• - Web Developer - simply no comments, ubermegacool stuff;
• - Taboo - this is the one i’ve installed recently. In short words, it adds a button “Remember the tab”, you lcik on it, then close the tab. Some time in the evening before going to sleep you push “Show all taboo” and here we go - a screen representing thumbnails of all those tabs you’ve remembered. This one makes my life easier, that’s for sure!

 
Here it is! Don’t hesitate to add extensions you use in comments. CU

Again and again i turn to this link. Even though this function got better on Dell, i still prefer it to be turned off.
So, to disable touchpad tap-to-click, add

to that part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, wich references your touchpad device.

 
References:
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Strange, but some time ago this task was smth. like “no-simple-solution-in-google”: