As I tend to work with a great deal of data comparisons between "corrupt" and restored data, its very helpful to have a great file comparison utility.   Beyond Compare is that utility that you need for this type of work.  I use it from compare folder structures, to database integrity, or to explain to that stubborn person that they are missing data and the missing data isn't in their back file.

The install is a straight forward rpm install.  Make sure you are su'd in your terminal

Development Release: Elive 1.9.52 (Unstable) - Samuel Baggen has announced the availability of a new development release of Elive, version 1.9.52, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest build of the Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.52." Changes since Elive 1.9.51: "Enlightenment 17 modules -....

Linux Virtual Server
The Linux Virtual Server Project is a project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS load balancer handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
Homepage: http://www.LinuxVirtualServer.org/

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I just finished reading multiple press releases regarding Sun's Virtualbox 3.1 teleportation feature.  This is a functionality you generally see in a more enterprise setting, but it's nice to see that this functionality is here finally with Virtualbox.   Here is a quick walkthrough on using the Teleportation function, since it has to be leveraged from the command line as there isn't a functional GUI management yet for multiple virtualbox servers.

I have recently been looking for a new way to manage my ESXi servers in the datacenter as I was starting to get annoyed on having a ton of VI Clients open on my management box.  So after some Googling I found this awesome little management utility that lets you basically do everything you need to do when managing your ESXi servers.   The utility is called VM Explorer, Trilead is the application manufacture that is building and supporting the product.  They have 2 versions of the software -- a free version and a commerical version.   There are some limitations of the free version, but for sm

Many of us development and engineering teams leverage defect (bug) tracking systems that provide some organization to our work processes and overall goals of our projects that we have been working on.  In the past I've worked exclusively with AxoSoft's Ontime defect tracking suite which is by far one of the best commercial applications on the market.  I was posed a pretty difficult task here recently with one of my clients, in proving why a defect tracker will help the business grow and become more streamlined.  So I was off to find an open soure defect track

Since I've been running Fedora 11 exclusively on my primary laptop since everything I need to work works perfectly in this environment I have ditched VMWare Workstation and have taken Sun's Virtualbox which by the way works quite smoothly if you ask me.  Installation was quite easy, but sometimes people get thrown off base when you have to upgrade software in the Linux environment.  So here's the quick walkthrough of upgrading your Virtualbox installation

Open a terminal window and run the following commands:

(32bit OS install)

So I've installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine and I have to say so far I absolutely love it.  I got to admit I've only been running it for a couple hours but normally it takes 2 - 3 hours to migrate all your "configuration settings" into a new Windows OS.  Microsoft has finally hit the nail on the head with this release.  So far it's just a solid clear installation and not obstructive to your working environment.   I will be installing it on a few of my systems here in the next few days and should have a better idea how much I like it.

After a fairly rough time with Seesmic Desktop I’ve finally got a stable environment with their release of 0.4.1 today which seems to fix most of the erratic performance issues that I was seeing where my CPU was pegged and RAM usage was outa the water.   This is a must do application update!

I can't put this release into words... just watch the video