Restarting X server with keyboard short-cut on Fedora 11

If you need to restart X Server quickly and do not wish to use the commandline, you can use CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE.

If you use the keyboard short-cut and it does not restart the X11, you may want to check the settings on

1. the System > Preferences > Keyboard. 
2. Select the Layout Tab and click the "Layout Options...." Button. 
3. Finally, click the item "Key sequence to kill the X Server" and check the item
   

 

And that's it.....

Enable Automatic Login for GNOME on Fedora 11

For debian derivative linux, you may want to view Enable Automatic Login for GNOME on Linux Mint,

For Fedora 11, there is a slightly different way to configure if you need automatic login. Fedora 11 uses the xml schematic to configure.

# vim /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas

 

You can tweaked the xml schematic from the screen shot above to enable automatic login

Enable Automatic Login for GNOME on Linux Mint

If you wish to speed up your boot-time and totally not concerned with security, you may want to enable automatic login.

For Linux Mint, my favourite Linux desktop, you can use the command line to enable automatic login.

# vim /etc/gdm/gdm.conf

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[daemon]

......

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=(your userid to login)

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Alternatively, you can use the gdmsetup to configure. See pix below.

Installing chrome on Fedora 11

Installing Chrome is not too difficult on Fedora 11. Assuming you are using yum, you can create a new repository file called "chromium.repo" and input the following contents into the file

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F11/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After saving the file, you should run the following
# yum update
# yum install chromium


Alternatively, you can install by downloadin the rpm from http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/
and run a
# rpm -ivh (chromium package)

Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) - Supercomputer platform as a Service

Cloud Computing is evolving so quickly. Usually HPC and Enterprise Computing are usually very seperate with distinct characeristics and usually it does not converge so easily.

Cloud Computing which is the natural evolution of virtualisation and consolidation and usually comes from the Enterprise Computing paradigm is  finally closing the gap of this convergence.

One important development can be seen from Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) may be one of the first HPC Cloud being developed with the concept of supercomputing on the demand concept or Supercomputer platform as a service (SPaaS). See Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) offering.

Very thought provoking