I’m performing the task of apt-get dist-upgradeing to Fedora Core 2 as we speak. The biggest reason is that I can’t get the latest development 2.6.5/2.6.6 kernels to boot on my system. It’s freezing right after the “freeing kernel memory” line (trying to find /sbin/init, I assume).
I’ve found a thread on Google Groups potentially related to this issue, but I haven’t tried out the patch mentioned.
Looks like 1&1 hosting is having some trouble with my site. I’m in the process of temporarily shifting the site elsewhere so things might be a bit broken for a bit while the DNS changes propagate.
UPDATE (6/26/2004): Since Google has been directing a few people to this site, I thought I’d at least describe the situation a bit more. It looks like one of the 1&1 servers with my host on it crashed, leaving my site inaccessible for more than a week. When they finally brought it back up (from backups, I assume) it had incorrect permissions and I couldn’t update anything. After a number of support requests (email and form-based), I finally managed to convince them that it was their problem. The first engineer even gave me a templated response, without reading my support mail!
It took a total of two weeks for the whole thing to be resolved, but it’s been pretty good so far since then. I know of another person hosted by 1&1 that hasn’t had any issues, so I might just have been unlucky. Since I’m using their three-years-free-no-strings-attached plan, I’m not going to complain too much.
My biggest peeve with 1&1 is that DNS has to be hosted by 1&1. You’ll get a nasty mail if your domain’s nameservers aren’t 1&1’s and they check once a week. This means that you can’t host www.yoursite.com on 1&1 with your NNTP or FTP server somewhere else.
Other than that, their management console is pretty sharp. It’s easy to set up permissions, passwords and the like for all your directories. SSH access is provided too, for extra tweakage.
With the latest release of QEMU (0.5.4), it now boots Win2k perfectly. I’ve fixed a small bug in the code preventing the Bochs VBE display driver from working and the full-color support looks awesome. All but the first screenshot are running 1024x768x16bpp visuals.
Note that XP should boot full-color fine without the patch since, AFAIK, it has full VESA 2.0 support built-in. You should be able to get 8-32 bpp visuals from the default Standard VGA driver.
Also, notice that QEMU runs Firefox flawlessly. It’s a good test for full-color screens.
VMWare has a new contender.
I’m a sucker for i386 on i386 emulation. Check out QEMU booting Win2k in Linux:
I think the screenshot window clipped the first shot by accident as it was coming up. Oh well. Still very, very cool.
Seems to take a while to enumerate devices after install (still happening right now). I’ll post more shots later if it works.
Are you a .NET coder? Using continuous integration, or want to? If so, check out Draco.NET.
Draco.NET now has a client-side GUI. It can monitor your check-in builds and trigger a forced or normal build. It sits in your system tray and hides itself when not needed.
You’ll need to build Draco from CVS to get this particular feature. With any luck, there will be a 1.5 release soon and 1.6 betas soon after!
