Ivan Pepelnjak of IOS Hints posted an excellent article on installing and running Quagga on Fedora Core over at CT3 wiki. Installing and maintaining Quagga on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is even easier since the package manager automatically generates users, init scripts, and provides an easy upgrade path for the future. To install Quagga simply run \[root@localhost ~\]# yum install quagga You do not have to create any additional users or set permissions, the package manager takes care of all of that automatically.

While configuring a new Gentoo Linux workstation I came across -march=native CFLAGS. Glancing over at GCC documentation, as of version 4.3.2 GCC is capable of automatically detecting what CPU you are using and setting appropriate optimization options. 32bit Users CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" 64bit Users CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

A visual how to guide to creating basic RAID1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. We will be creating 1 gigabyte swap partition and using the remaining space for /. Boot up Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS installation media. Once you have reached the disk utility select Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout, select the drives that you would like to use, and check Review and modify partitioning layout.

While browsing around Knol I came across Computer Theology. Computer Theology is the branch of Computer Science and Theology concerned with the study of the role of religion in computer networks. I just checked the calendar, it is not April 1st.

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Glad to see Apple do the right thing.

Working on site with a client reminded me of how poor font rendering is on Linux, and what little progress has been made since I stopped using Linux on the desktop almost two years ago. While trying to work on a document with a couple of Linux users I have noticed how poor hinting and spacing is on both Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. I can accept not being able to properly render proprietary fonts but Fedora is using Liberation fonts that are licensed under GPL and Ubuntu is using Numbus Roman that is also licensed under GPL.

This was featured on major news sites some time back and linked to YouTube - unfortunately the YouTube version has mono sound. I had a hard time finding a combination of relatively high quality video and stereo sound for this. Best I could get was the video from YouTube and the stereo track from DailyMotion spliced together. This is a remix of the original song for radio - “Remind Me (Someone Else’s Radio Remix)”, and the video is produced by H5, a French company specializing in Information Graphics.

It has been a while since a sensationalistic piece on Apple and security has made the news rounds. The latest “security flaw” is that the iPhone takes a temporary screenshot of every window to generate shrinking effect of a window when the home button is pressed. A “forensics expert” has managed to recover said screenshots from the device. So let me get this straight, a guy has managed to mount the iPhones hard drive and look at the screenshots?