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…
Lire la suiteExpired 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…
Lire la suiteWebSphere 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…
Lire la suiteConfiguring 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…
Lire la suiteUbuntu 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…
Lire la suiteChanged 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…
Lire la suiteRecommending the Presentation Zen blog
I’ve been reading the Presentation Zen blog for a few weeks now and find the content very refreshing, especially as I used to build so many Powerpoint slides and still enjoy presenting our technologies from time to time to larger audiences. Now, I know the next PPT presentation I build will be totally different, look…
Lire la suitePre-built DB2 VMware image from IBM
While hunting on Google for sites offering pre-built VMware images to play with, I just discovered that we (IBM) offer a DB2 UDB for Linux image for download, for evaluation and development purpose. This is cool! P.S. I’ve updated the VMware wiki page with weblinks to our support policies when running IBM middleware within VMware…
Lire la suiteWhat will my next Thinkpad be?
At IBM, our primary workstations have been Thinkpads for a number of years now. Ok, so we sold off that business to Lenovo lately, but there are no plans to change supplier, as far as I know. Being a techie, I wish my system was refreshed every 6 months, but we all know that kind…
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