Monthly Archives: October 2007

Clueless at the prompt

Linux! I don't know how it works anymore. Lately, I have been putting a few hundred RHEL boxes into production and am finding it very difficult to do very simple things. How do I make sense of the top output? … Continue reading

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Xorg 7.3 and multiple monitors

Xorg 7.3's hot-plugging support is finally here and it *works*. I can still remember the battling I used to do with Xinerama (with frequent lockups) back in the days of XFree86 3.x/4.x. Now with the laptop's VGA port connected to … Continue reading

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New Yahoo Search Interface

I tried http://search.yahoo.com/ page after the announcement at http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/10/01/the-new-yahoo-search/. First impression – the page is remarkably clean (and empty) for Yahoo standards. I like it.

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