Out of whim, I enabled SMS alert of Google Calendar simply because I have this meetings every now and then and I can’t forgive myself if I’d ever miss one of those for the reason that I have forgotten about them.

I tried creating a meeting invite from MS Outlook and sent invite to my gmail account. Aside from that, I forwarded an invited I got yesterday to the same gmail account and both are there in my calendar with SMS enabled.

And… I received my first reminder from Google:

I’m still unsure with which distro to use for my not-so-new-not-so-old home desktop.

My current HW is running on XP simply because I’m not the only one who uses it but now that my mom is getting the hang of using her notebook and my dad has his own HW too, I get to have the liberty to choose what to do with my pc. Yeah!

Anyway, what I need now are suggestions. I haven’t gone through a list of distros that might interest me so maybe you guys would like to share some. I rarely use GUI for Linux so I’m not sure which one am I going to be comfortable. And whenever I’d use GUI, all’s there is Gnome.

Also, I saw from one of my posts that I’m not into aero-feel. Guess what, I’m considering it this time. It’s like mantra for me to feel goody goody after a day’s work.

To give you an insight of what I usually do:

• I mostly watch TV series and movies
• Do torrent downloads
• Seldom play computer arcade games
• Browse the net ’till I drop
• Blog as often as I can
• Burn lots of DVDs
• Read eBook

And here’s what I plan to add:

• Improve this blog site, that would mean setting up xampp with WordPress
• Go over Java again but not necessarily like the old times, with this I’d need Eclipse IDE
• Maybe continue with Perl (I’m still not sure though)
• Continue my pursuit of using Gimp for digital photos that I edit, hehe

So far that’s what I have in mind. Specs of computer transferred to my possession are:

• Intel Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz) Hyper-threading
• 2GB RAM
• 80GB primary HD
• 128MB VGA Card (forgot the brand) tsk! 256MB Nvidia Graphics Card

That’s it! Hope I’d get responses. before June 11. Yes, I have a deadline. Because I need to do file transfers (a bunch of them) and physical movements of computers in the house.

jah!

I’ve recently encountered a disk space issue in FreeBSD and thought it’s a normal disk space problem. But then again, I’m wrong.

Even if the file has been moved to another location, whenever I checked for utilization, I’d get the same percentage.

The thing is, the file I moved is active and is used by one of the services. Anyway, to avoid having the same issue of not decreasing disk space, service running must be stopped to unlock the partition and refresh its contents. Then do the ‘move’ of files.

I got cranky with all the inconsistency that I went through during my deployment. But here are some of what woke me up big time:

• That IPA-client can’t pull keytab from master server;
• That IPA doesn’t like incorrect hostname. It has to be the right one up to the domain level;
• That IPA uses A and PTR record when transferring user ticket for single sign on (SSO) be possible;
• That IPA can’t do SSO on some machines for some strange reason considering they have correct hostname and DNS records. (That I ought to find out.)

That’s all for now.

Just learned something interesting.

That the default directory for MySQL installed in FreeBSD is /var/db/mysql and for Linux it’s in /var/lib/mysql.