pjwelsh's mostly geek musings

Woot Woot. The rather well done Zimbra Collaboration Server (" enterprise-class email, calendar and collaboration solution")  has...

Let me start by saying, "Shame on you Adobe!" for not recognizing an opportunity to continue in the Linux OS realm in a meaningful...

Updated Dell's OMSA  from 6.5.1 to 7.0 via  standard yum process. Checked for any new goodies via "yum install $(bootstrap_firmware...

Here is the situation: There is a user with a remote office that includes networking equipment like printers, backup server etc. He uses a c...

Don't start with the, "rsh is bad..." message. I know, I know! It's an internal test network and was just easy to do for r...

Linux on laptops has come a LONG way over the years. I am happy to say that most Linux installs for laptops go with very little or no issues...

Had a very head scratching issue with the (at least the) Linux version of Goggle Music Manger. GMM claims to have uploaded all of the songs ...

Just going to vent here for a minute, so stay with me...Why? Why would you have so many 32bit dependencies when running SUU on a 64bit OS. I...

It's a very good time in a Linux lovers life when you can just say, "it works"... Because of all of the hard work of countless...

As this writing, VMware-Workstation 7.1 has issues building vmmon on CentOS 6.2 and therefore SL 6 and RHEL 6 also. After some head scratc...

Sadly, Redhat has decided to drop system-config-netboot from it's offerings for RHEL 6. I was very much accustomed to the simplicity o...

Work in progress - place to keep notes to myself - may help someone else - cheat sheet kinda page ;) 1. How to get NIC/network card vendor...

WORK IN PROGRESS!!! Just recently started playing setting up a GPS tracking server . Here is a follow up client connection on my Android p...

This is the quick install and setup for OpenGTS and CentOS 6.0 .  OpenGTS is a general GPS tracking software for many types of devices. The...

Let me start by stating that getting this setup to be functional was a frustrating experience. Mostly due to my lack of Mythtv setup experie...

To Google's credit they have quickly moved to a native Linux client with their beta Music Manager , The " google-musicmanager-beta...

This is originally created with CentOS 6.0. Prior to the release of CentOS 6.1, I strongly urge all admin's to use the  CentOS 6.0 CR Up...

Not sure why Dell is taking recent steps backwards with regard to Linux support, but clearly it is. The recent BIOS update issues have give...

It really took a while for me to figure out how to add printers via the command line using lpadmin on CentOS 6. So, this information also wi...

This not a formal information page... it is a free form of helpful Zimbra bits of information that I needed in order setup a Zimbra server. ...