Holidays Linux Arrived in Queensland January 21, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Hello Linux Conference, I can’t wait until you begin! Read more »
Clustering Random Thoughts RedHat Xen libguestfs: library for accessing and modifying VM disk images January 18, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on libguestfs: library for accessing and modifying VM disk images Imagine if there was an application that you could feed a disk image to, wether it be Microsoft Windows 2008 or Red Hat EL 6 and see a list of applications that are installed – no step back – imagine if there was an application that you could feed a disk image to and just […] Read more »
Linux RedHat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 is out! January 17, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.6 (with kernel-2.6.18-238.el5)! In virtualisation land, one of the major changes have been the addition of the virtio balloon driver. This new driver in Red Hat 5.6 allows guests to express to the hypervisor how much […] Read more »
Linux Random Thoughts Reminder: root needs > 10GB January 16, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment *sigh* [tim@beast ~]$ df / -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk/by-uuid/ebc29b81-cc7e-4fa5-9777-8953f54752ff 9.9G 9.3G 70M 100% / Why oh why do I do this to myself? Read more »
Clustering Computers Linux Holding back way to much! January 15, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment A typical day’s worth of updating my machines usually looks a bit like this: [tim@myhost tmp]$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: gnome-disk-utility: ignoring package upgrade (2.30.1-1 => […] Read more »
Humor Misc Random Thoughts Internet Travels January 14, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment *sigh* the Internet. From updated software to the Himalayas’. I thought that I might just describe today how I got lost in an interesting maze of Handbrakes to Schools in the Indian Himalayas. So, I was doing my normal morning Internet browse, off discovering what new and interesting tidbits of information I could discover. On […] Read more »
Linux Random Thoughts Broadcom is part of the Linux Foundation January 13, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When you look at the Linux landscape, there are traditionally two companies which are well known for lacking support when it comes to Linux. ATI and Broadcom. Well, good news when looking at the Broadcom landscape! Broadcom, well known for frequently holding out when it came to delivering drivers – especially Wi-Fi drivers and source […] Read more »
Clustering PHP Random Thoughts PHP Fog gets $1.8m in funds January 11, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment PHP is one of the most popular web development language in the world, with millions of active developers and tens of millions of PHP-based sites already in deployment. A new company on the PHP scene has been created to service the hundreds of thousands of application developers who work with PHP on a daily basis. […] Read more »
Finance & Payments MyBanco Phase III of PA-DSS and what it means for you January 10, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment A major PCI-related deadline came and went on the 1st of October that many PCI/PA DSS compliant people may not have even felt fly past, in fact most merchants were not even aware of the details, even though they’ve been given an entire year to get up to speed. It is known as “Phase III” […] Read more »
Computers Linux Random Thoughts Handy Hints: Create random MAC addresses January 10, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Quick and simple MAC address generator: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=3 2>/dev/null | od -tx1 | head -1 \ | cut -d' ' -f2- | awk '{ print "00:50:19:"$1":"$2":"$3 }' I normally have this set up as an alias in my profile under ‘mac’. Read more »