An engineer's life around Kyoto

I usually use the gdm for X session manager. Under this circumstance, I wanted to test a xdm, a very traditional X session manager. Rather than replacing gdm with xdm, I tried to start a xdm within a gdm session. Here is how I did: In a gnome-terminal type as follows: # su # xdm -server ":1 nest local /usr/bin/Xnest :1 -geometry 800x600" Cheers!

I am preparing for a presentation using X desktop, and want to start another gdm session inside my GNOME desktop environment. It seemed to require long descriptions in the configuration file at first, but  a simple command solved the problem. $ gdmflexiserver -n This starts another gdm greeter inside a  Xephyr (if unavailable, Xnest instead) window. Excellent!

Here is a tragic news from Japan. Japanese hosting provider Sakura Internet started its cloud service 'Sakura-no Cloud' last November. Unfortunately, after the serious performance depression in December, about ten percent of the virtual servers has lost its whole data in the end of the year 2011. They say one of the operators has done a wrong data shrinking operation while they struggled against the performance depression. I feel sorry for the owner of the lost virtual servers. At the same time, this accident makes me change the point of view at the cloud service. That is, you can't control this kind of risks behind the virtualized service. You've got to protect your data by yourself. Refrecence: The trouble report of Sakura Cloud around new year

A happy new year. The climate was good here in Kyoto. I watched the final game of  the Emperor's Cup All-Japan Soccer Championship on TV, because Kyoto Sanga, my favorite football club team, played the game. Surprisingly, Kyoto Sanga doesn't belong to the top division, but inferior J2 division. Although Kyoto Sanga didn't win the game, I feel satisfied with the fact the team fought the final game. I'm sure I can enjoy the Sanga's games of the coming regular season.