Archive for June, 2009



And talking of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook and how outdated it is, I came across The Unix Hater’s Handbook, Reconsidered, digesting quickly through each chapter of the book and show nice counter arguments.

I’m still reading the UNIX-HATERS Handbook. I must confess it is very fun to read and it’s pretty obvious that it was written circa 1994 [1] because it contains some (currently) irrelevant comments like:

Unix was developed in a research environment where systems rarely stayed up for several days. It was not designed to stay up [...]

libvirt and virt-manager are a blessing. They bring powerful, free, open source management to Xen- and KVM-based virtualization environments.
I’ve been using both for quite a while. Also, I’ve always prefered bridged networking support for my virtual machines over NAT. While NAT is non-disruptive and allows for isolation, I typically like to easily access services provided [...]