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Sunshine with clouds – Ubuntu's game changing release

I’m going to use the term “Cloud” in this post which I despise for it’s nebulosity. The press has bandied the term around so much that it means everything from the Net as a whole to Google Apps to virtualization. My “cloud” means a cluster of virtual machines. I’ve been a huge fan of Mark […]

October 29, 2009 | Linux, Ubuntu | No comments

Super fast & easy virtual server setup on Ubuntu (Jaunty)

While I upgrade to Karmic, here’s a quick setup to get a virtual ubuntu server running on a real ubuntu server: As root: ubuntu-vm-builder kvm jaunty –hostname dev2 –addpkg  openssh-server vim  -d /usr/local/vms/dev2 –mem 256 –libvirt qemu:///system This will create a jaunty jackalope ubuntu virtual server using the KVM hypervisor. The hostname will be dev2. […]

October 15, 2009 | Linux, Ubuntu | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.