February 1, 2009: Productive Day

We have nothing much planned for today.  So after getting up this morning and everyone moving down to the living room I took over the morning Liesl schedule, helper with her exercises and tummy time and other activites, while Dominica got started on her first class at the O’Reilly School at the University of Illinois.  …

Installing Windows Server 2003 on Xen on Red Hat Linux 5

After being challenged several times during the process of installing Windows Server 2003 into a fully virtualized Xen environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) I decided that a quick tutorial for those of you who wish to install in exactly the same way would be helpful.  There are several …

January 31, 2009: Linnea Comes to Visit

Liesl has very visibly matured today.  It is a wondrous thing to watch a child at this age because every day brings something new and exciting.  This morning Liesl began “talking” far more than she has been doing up until now.  She has been “talking” a little for some time now but it has been …

January 30, 2009: Dominica Starts at O’Reilly

Friday is finally here.  I thought that I was going to sleep in a little this morning but ended up waking up early on my so I just got up and got started on the day. Today Dominica signed up for the Linux/UNIX System Administration program at the O’Reilly School of Technology at the University …