Clustering Linux PHP Random Thoughts Holiday mode started early? January 22, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Looking at my emails, I just realised that I forgot to pay for Drupal Downunder. -.-“ 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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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