Mathilda has a split personality
I haven't gotten around to uninstalling Windows XP Media Center on Mathilda. In fact, I may not want to. See, I've come to -- gasp! -- like Mathilda's utterly backward (Windows? Shame on me!) but totally slick Media Center UI. But I'm still a Linux guy, so there has to be a compromise. So...
Mathilda, meet Evey. Evey runs on Ubuntu Breezy. She's a VMWare Server instance, of course -- a clone, actually, of a readily available image from the VMWare Community site. I'm doing things on her that will give her a personality all her own. For one, she's now my staging server for testing Drupal themes. A quick
Mathilda and Evey work well together. I've alloted half of Mathilda's RAM to Evey, and they're sharing it very well. I haven't installed an SMP kernel on Evey yet, but I've prepped her up to recognize the Core Duo, too.
(If the anthropomorphism is getting to your nerves, please don't. I'm used to naming my boxes. My previous desktop was Iris. My test servers at work are Hiraya, Mithi, Padme, Arwen, Galadriel, and Eowyn. In my previous work at PhilRice, the servers were Maui, Sabel, and Ligaya (named after the branches). When I was in NIA, I had an HP/Compaq Proliant ML370 named Leia (srv-win2k-dc-01 was just too boring). My first PC -- an XT machine with a whopping 16MB RAM -- was called Chico, after the now-defunct Pinoy clone brand.)
Mathilda, meet Evey. Evey runs on Ubuntu Breezy. She's a VMWare Server instance, of course -- a clone, actually, of a readily available image from the VMWare Community site. I'm doing things on her that will give her a personality all her own. For one, she's now my staging server for testing Drupal themes. A quick
sudo apt-get install whatever will morph her into a full-blown Linux sys-ad platform. Mathilda and Evey work well together. I've alloted half of Mathilda's RAM to Evey, and they're sharing it very well. I haven't installed an SMP kernel on Evey yet, but I've prepped her up to recognize the Core Duo, too.
(If the anthropomorphism is getting to your nerves, please don't. I'm used to naming my boxes. My previous desktop was Iris. My test servers at work are Hiraya, Mithi, Padme, Arwen, Galadriel, and Eowyn. In my previous work at PhilRice, the servers were Maui, Sabel, and Ligaya (named after the branches). When I was in NIA, I had an HP/Compaq Proliant ML370 named Leia (srv-win2k-dc-01 was just too boring). My first PC -- an XT machine with a whopping 16MB RAM -- was called Chico, after the now-defunct Pinoy clone brand.)
Wait a minute, how did you put 16 MB in the XT? That only goes up to 640K on 1MB addressable (20 bits)
ReplyDeleteOops, my bad. It was an AT. Hehe. :P I was in highschool, then, playing "Maniac Mansion", gritty pixel graphics and all.
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