Cleaning up VMware directory

I’ve been creating so many VMware images that my HDD are close to full… and I have 160Gb of space on my two extra drives (one internal, the other a USB2 external enclosure). I’ve brought it down to the bare essential, and kept the ISO for the OS/products I may need to recreate if the…

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Installed WebSphere (WAS) Community Edition 1.0 in VMware

I spent the better part of the late evening/early morning yesterday (today?) getting acquainted with WebSphere Application Server Community Edition v1.0. I had tried to play with Gluecode in the past, as we were going through the acquisition, and the installation was far from easy. This time, things are much smoother, even for a relative…

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How to plan your todos when there’s just too many of them…

Sound familiar? You’re working hard, managing multiple todo lists, checking your notes from your wiki/blog/cms/ when all of a sudden, you’re finding that nothing get done anymore, or at an absurdly slow pace. I’ve found a little trick lately that’s helped me get more done, as it tells me where to focus my efforts, in…

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Changes to my Online Presence chart

Earlier this year, I had shared with you a chart depicting all my presence points on the internet and on IBM’s intranet. It showed what kind of content I shared, the underlying engine used and the estimated update frequency. More importantly, it showed a few question marks, where I was questionning whether it made sense…

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Expired domain… how could I forget

Well, I let my domain lapse and the minute it does, my access was cut. It took me a few hours to figure it out. Funny thing is the same thing happened for another domain name I manage for a friend, just months ago. At that point, I had put a recurring yearly reminder in…

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WebSphere Application Server History

I’ve been working on this document for a few weeks now, and I’ve finally nailed the format today. It’s brief (around 20 pages, but well spaced), to the point and acts as an index table at the same time. I’m basically creating an overview of WebSphere Application Server since Version 1.0, in 1998. This document…

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Configuring Ubuntu a little further

The easy stuff is installing a distro. The tough part comes when you want to make it yours, whether through supporting your special hardware or …gasp… customizing the look’n’feel of your desktop. As it is, I’m currently posting this from my Ubuntu VMware image, which now has MPlayer 1.0pre7, XMMS and DVD decryption installed (thank…

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Ubuntu doesn’t cease to amaze me…

I’ve reinstalled Ubuntu (5.10, the latest release) under VMware 5.0 (I’m downloading version 5.5 as I write this) and Ubuntu deserves all the accolades it keeps receiving from the industry. It’s stable, fast, uses the oh-so-lovely debian package manager (apt-get) and does a fantastic job at ‘just working’. For example, I first set it up…

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Changed my blog’s URL and RSS feeds

I’ve decided to change my blog’s URL to http://blog.arseneault.ca. Since my arseneault.ca domain hosts all sort of personal projects, this will make it easier for me on the management side, since I can simply update a subdomain’s mapping as I shuffle directories around on my hosted server. Thanks for changing your URL feeds accordingly… RSS…

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