Google Linux Random Thoughts Google owns On2. What now? January 9, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When it comes to companies that create multimedia codecs, I have followed none closer then that of On2 Technologies. On2 came to my attention when TrueMotion VP3 was released as Open Source Software in late 2001. On2 released the source code of their VP3 codec. They irrevocably disclaimed all rights to the codec and gave […] Read more »
Linux RedHat Where is CentOS 6? January 8, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Want to know what the status is of CentOS 6 is and how far away it is to being completed? There is a page on the CentOS wiki which contains a list of all the packages which the developers are currently focusing their attention on. Head over to http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/6/AuditStatus for more information on the status […] Read more »
Random Thoughts A CMS for Video? January 5, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I have recently been looking for an application that will allow me to put up a mini series of videos for one particular topic. Something like YouTube+Moodle, but slimmer. Of course like any well trained computer nerd it was off to Google to go find my answer. Unfortunately there was not really that much that tickled my […] Read more »
Asterisk PHP A new PHP Asterisk Gateway Interface January 2, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment In my random searches of the Internet, I have found on Github a new PHP AGI framework. Incase all of that sounded like gibberish: AGI == Asterisk Gateway Interface. Asterisk == VoIP Server. VoIP Server == “Press 1. for”, PHP Framework == “if ($key->pressed == “1”) {” 🙂 This framework (nicely named just PAGI) is […] Read more »
Misc Random Thoughts New Year’s Resolutions January 1, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment It’s 2011, time for a new year and a list of new years resolutions. The United Nations has designated 2011 the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry, but the real question is: what will I designate the year 2011 to? Well, for starters year 2011 will be the year of finalising last […] Read more » 2011 MCITP
Documentation Linux Getting OpenSUSE’s Xen ‘Kernel of The Day’ on other Distro’s August 8, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Getting the latest (mainline) Linux kernel is easy, you just head over to kernel.org and click the first ‘Full Source’ link that you see. When it comes to Xen, it’s so hard that even the official Xen Wiki can’t really find a simple download and configuration link. After running Andrew Lyon’s Gentoo patches for Xen […] Read more »
Xen Xen Common Commands July 11, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Xen has states! r: the paravirtualised/hypervised “domain” is currently running some sort of process. A domain will not be in the running state (“r”) if it was just waiting for a packet to arrive or a mouse to be moved b: blocked, domain is waiting for something, usually an interrupt (for example, waiting for […] Read more »
Documentation Finance & Payments Building a PCI DSS compliant network [1/12] July 11, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Building a PCI DSS compliant network [1/12] PCI, or the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council was created in September 2006 by the major card issuers, such as Visa, MasterCard and AMEX. The standards, PCI-DSS (Data Security Standard) were developed to ensure that card holder’s data security was always kept to the highest possible standards. To reduce the scope of assessment for […] Read more »
Linux Looking for Alpha Testers! March 25, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Looking for Alpha Testers! Do you like testing and writing documentation for new and exciting applications? I am currently working on a new enterprise application which will simplify the deployment of new machines in a Unix network. It’s literally plug, deploy and play! I can’t really tell that much just yet on what the application actually does, that’s top […] Read more »
Experimental CrazyCode and up all night January 19, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Do the words “Crazy Code and up all night” describe you? Prefer the night more then you do the sunlight? The site CrazyCode is for you! This blog is all about any subject technical. I am trying to find a few contributing editors to also help along with writting articles for the site, so if […] Read more » experimental