I just installed a fresh WinXP virtual host on kvm on my Gentoo system. It didn't allow me to use the maximum resolution that my monitor supports (1440x900). So I started reading the kvm manual page, and found the --std-vga option. After restarting my WinXP machine with this option, Windows was unable to find a driver for the graphics card. Too bad ...

Because I really dislike the default Ubuntu background color, and I always forget where to disable it:

Yesterday I went clay pigeon shooting for the second time. It was very nice, maybe this will become a new hobby :-) Nicest part that you do it in group mostly, and you get outside to do it.

Recently I needed to run an application that needs X on a server running SLES10. Because it wasn't necessary to have the application output anything on a screen, the X virtual framebuffer was sufficient to accomplish this. You can easily install the X virtual framebuffer, which comes with the xvfb package in SLES10. yast -i xorg-x11-Xvfb xorg-x11

Today I was working on a server running SLES10 with LDAP authentication enabled. I tried to add a local user account with home directory /dev/null, but useradd complained that this was an invalid directory. So I manually edited /etc/passwd and changed the home directory.