Doug Jaworski

No, it is not snowing yet! I had this sitting on my computer and finally pulled them off and uploaded to flickr.

Winter is right around the corner. This was taken on the Indiana Toll Road between Chicago and South Bend and was a small band of Lake Effect snow that was hitting Chesterton Indiana hard. Good thing for All Wheel Drive as I almost took the Mini on this trip!

Lukas’s idea of camping is staying the night in the backyard and watching DVD’s on the Laptop! Maybe next year we will venture further from home.

Yes, you can actually surf in Lake Michigan however not legally at Chicago Beaches.  The Chicago Sun Times just published an artical stating the Chicago Parks District is considering allowing surfing at 5 Chicago beaches and year round at 41st Streat Beach.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Juanty has added the Ext4 filesystem. While not part of the default install, it is rather easy to get up and running, even for the novice user.

Why Ext4? Simply put, it far outperforms that of the older and very stable Ext3.

In this HowTo, I will describe how to setup the root file system with Ext4. While it is very possible to use Ext4 for /boot, i choose to leave it as Ext2.

Start the installer as you normally would by inserting the Install CD or installation method of your choice. In this aproach, we skip booting into the live CD method and go straight to the install (why take the extra time and steps).

Go through and setup as follows

On the “Prepare disk space” window, you want to select “Specify partitions manually (advanced)” and then forward.

Select the disk you want to format, on our example we have a single disk mounted as /dev/sda.

Right Click on the disk and select “New partition table” and then select Forward.

You then will have “free space”, simply click on “free space” and select “New Partition. In this method we will create our /boot partition using Ext2.

/boot does not need to be a very large partition since it basically just holds the boot configurations such as Grub.

We then need to create a “swap area” by clicking on “free space” and selecting “New partition”.

And now we create the root partition, also known as /. We will select Ext4 as our filesystem. Note, you can add as many filesystem as your system will allow, for example /var, /home, /usr, etc.. however for the sake of simplicty I choose to keep this rather simple.

And this is the end product…

Continue on with your installation as normal.

There you have it. A fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 with an Ext4 root file system.

On my way to the office on Tuesday the 21st of April, I managed to total the Mini Cooper. It had been raining off and on most of the morning. About 20 miles from the office it started to down poor. I began to slow down and ended up hitting a patch of slick ice and took the car into the barrier at highway speed. Those airbags did not actually do much for me other then actually cause injury. Fortunatly for me, I walked away with some burns from the gun powder in the airbags and some minor cuts bruises.

If you are unfortunate enough to have to use the Microsoft Live Communicator 2005 client in an enterprise (work) and you have a Microsoft Vista Desktop I found this to be a work around to the Desktop Sharing Flaw

Problem: Windows Vista does not include NetMetting and it is required for Microsoft Live Communicator to enable the Desktop sharing function.

Solution: Microsoft has release a hotfix that can be downloaded here.

More information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927853

I found this great video developed by Jonathan Jarvis that describes in 11 minutes current credit crisis. I hope you find this as enlightening as I did.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

If you ever need to copy files across a network and wanted a quick and easy way to do it without FTP, NFS, SAMBA or an other remote directory access solutions. RSYNC is usually part of most Unix or Linux distributions and can be easily installed.

The most basic of options is below:

rsync -avz -e ssh user@remotehost:/path/to/dir /local/dir/