Been geekily busy this weekend

I discovered on Thursday or Friday that I was using the non-smp capable version of my kernel.  Having a dual-core machine, that meant I was basically wasting half the processing power available to me (which I still probably never used).  I did have the right kernel installed, but it wasn’t booting that kernel by default.  So I learned a bit about grub and make the generic kernel default.

I also tested Quicken 2007 on Ubuntu 7.04, using Crossover.  Read about my failure here.

Lastly, I got my dedicated server configured the way I like it.  You see, I run a VM on my server for Scalix email.  The primary reason for this configuration is that Scalix doesn’t support as many server operating systems as I’d like.  It does support Fedora Core 5, so I have FC5 running in a VM on my server.  However, I had been previously unable (and unmotivated) to get the bridged networking configured properly.  So I had been using NAT and iptables to route to the VM.  Now my VM has a real IP address and my life will (or at least should) be easier.