Martin Bálint

Personal blog of IT professional

Oracle PL/SQL developer
PHP developer
Linux administrator

Dec 26 2011

Eclipse headless on Centos 6

When I was looking for tools, which would help me with editing of RPM spec files, I decided to use Eclipse + Linux tools plugin. I found, it is unusable on my Windows desktop for 2 reasons:

  • there is no rpmlint on Windows, making Linux tools load one cpu core to 100%
  • i needed to transfer every change to linux machine and run rpm build

So I decided to create a dedicated virtual machine for rpm builds, on OpenVZ, running Eclipse and all needed plugins (git and Linux tools).
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Oct 25 2009

How I migrated my Centos staff from XEN to KVM

A quick recapitulation of XEN to KVM migration on my Centos 5.4. It was suprisingly easy.

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Dec 25 2008

“Video mode not supported” while installing Centos 5.2

While reinstalling my Centos server, I was not able to get into Anacoda installer GUI. My LCD monitor said “Video mode not supported”. Centos default video resolution is 800×600 and 24bit depth.

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Nov 28 2008

Installing Tomcat6 on Centos 5.2

Step by step instructions on how to install Tomcat 6 on Centos 5.2.

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Nov 28 2008

Installing JIRA on Centos 5.2

Step by step how I installed Atlassian Jira on Centos 5.2.

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Nov 28 2008

Installing Confluence on Centos 5.2

Today, I installed Atlassian Confluence into one of my XEN virtual machines.

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Nov 28 2008

Debian etch on Alix 2C3 board

I have got a new board – Alix 2C3 – for my home router. I decided to build my favorite linux distribution Debian on it.

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