I originally announced a new blog on this page a while ago, but set it up to redirect to my bliki. The host system, my Cobalt Qube died yesterday and I had also come to the conclusion that there are significant difficulties with blogging using snipsnap, …
Bye Bye Qube
Shall I replace my Qube with a new dinky box? …
Qube Diaries!
I’ve finally got an instance of Snipsnap running on my Qube and I’ve mucked around with the look and feel to give it my “Green Robot” look which my home site also has, if you like it, you can go there and download it. …
Open SSH on the Qube
I wrote a piece on my Oracle blog, on configuring SSH on my Cobalt Qube. It’s redundant now since the Qube and it’s Linux have gone. This snip/pointer was published in Feb 2016. I quite liked the finishing line, “Now I can break the Qube from anywhere in the world”. …
Upgrading the Qube
Three days ago, I finally received another Qube with two shiny new disks and found that at home my 5 year old PC has an ethernet controller old enough to permit the recovery disk to boot. This part of the process is really neat and hard to get wrong. (I have initialised the Qube from the OS recovery disk. This involves booting another computer using the recovery disk which is a Linux disk. This system acts as a boot server and I configured the Qube to boot from the net.) I have just finished running the upgrade process for the Qube. Given the OS was published in 2001, there are 73 upgrades and order is significant. …
A brand new Qube
Well, my Cobalt Qube arrived today. This is the cube I won by blogging Sun’s premier field training event last February. Also you might ask why it took so long; it got lost the first time. Interestingly absolutely no documentation. 😥 Actually the original blog post pointed at a bunch of web resources, which have all gone now. …