As of right now, you can use your Google, Facebook, and Yahoo accounts (or any other OpenID provider account) to post comments on ianbmacdonald.com. Most people will actually prefer using their day-to-day Google or Facebook credentials as it no longer requires remembering a new password, entering an email address or clicking on an [...]
A few nights ago I watched Avatar for the second time in 3-D, in an effort to qualify the difference between regular 3D and IMAX 3D. The difference was astounding, both in the picture quality due to the 10x resolution jump IMAX frames provide, the super-sound and the fact that many scenes seemed to [...]
It seems that Virtualbox 3.1.x now implements a quick check to see if the hardware virtualization extensions are in use before launching AMD-V enabled guests. There seem to be two key issues with this change
Buggy BIOS’s that do not clear a VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag properly on boot KVM modules that set the VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag [...]
After mucking about with various combinations of grub2, xen and eucalyptus on Ubuntu Karmic and eventually Debian Squeeze I now have a working cloud computing sandbox using binaries entirely from debian packages.
The final configuration is a Debian Squeeze instance on my HP dv7z laptop running standard grub2, xen and eucalyptus packages. The kernel [...]
For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line [ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8 and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I [...]