Jan 18 2006

770 (again)

Remember me ranting on the 770 not being usable for lefthanded people ? I need to test this someday

Jan 18 2006

Software Update - Nokia 770

Philip flashed my currently unused 770 to a more recent version he didn't add Tinne yet but I`m eager to look at it and test it also :) I`m planning on trying to use the 770 more in the near feature.

Jan 18 2006

Software Update - Nokia 770

Philip flashed my currently unused 770 to a more recent version he didn't add Tinne yet but I`m eager to look at it and test it also :) I`m planning on trying to use the 770 more in the near feature.

Jan 18 2006

Software Update - Nokia 770

Philip flashed my currently unused 770 to a more recent version he didn't add Tinne yet but I`m eager to look at it and test it also :) I`m planning on trying to use the 770 more in the near feature.

Jan 17 2006

GFS and DNS

Jan 17 20:32:35 cnode1 ccsd4672: cluster.conf (cluster name = my_cluster, version = 5) found.
Your host name maps to the loopback device rather than a real network interface.Please change your /etc/hosts file so that your host name has a proper IP
address, as a cluster cannot function over the loopback interface.
root@cnode1 modules# Jan 17 20:32:42 cnode1 ccsd4672: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 30 seconds.
Jan 17 2006

Marc Uwog Maurer's Blog � Blog Archive � EU patent questionnaire

As Marc Uwogs Blog sais , please fill out the questionaire

Jan 10 2006

Fedora's Future

I`m with both Seth Vidal and Luis Villa
specially when thinking about our ba...

Jan 04 2006

Automating Unix and Linux Administration

A couple of months ago I promised a review of the book Automating Unix and Linux Administration
I`m lucky I took notes while reading it because otherwise this review would never have been written.

Kirk Bauer does a good job in higlighting important parts of modern
system administration. He gives a good overview of the tools you
should use such as Nagios and CFengine but on some occasions my
opinion differs with his.

Allowing Remote root is one of those things, for me there is no
reason whatsoever why someone must be able to login as root remotely
, I want them to ssh into a box as a normal user , then su to root.
The main reason for this is that passwords tend to be exchanged by
people and getting to know a root password isn't always that
difficult (remember the human being the weakest factor in security),
so even if someone knows the root password of a machine, as long as
he doesn't have another valid account that password isn't worth
anything.

There were some moments where I was puzzled, somewhere in the book
he described on how scripts that had an "add" function also needed a
"remove" function. I always assume you generate configs or file, put
them in CVS( Feel free to replace CVS with your favourite version
control system.), distribute the files and when you have to rollback
you have the older versions in CVS.

Some other things I didn't like were some of his "Software
Distribution" methods, as in use rsync for sharing data and code ??
No way, code should be packaged in to rpm or deb files (pick your
favourite) and packages should be updated or installed. We don't
want any orphaned files on our systems do we ?

But apart from those disagreements the book was really interresting
to read and it actually taught me some new things. Thumbs up !

Jan 03 2006

Spampemousse works !

You know your blog is getting popular, when you get link spammed !NOT, so I had to take action and I installed Spamplemousse into my dotclear plugins tree. I had to modify it so that it could run from my homedir rather than from the apacheroot where it expected to be but it works fine. Saves me a Lot of work :)

Jan 03 2006

Checked out revision 9

Tab just sent me mail that he fixed some issues in 2.6, So I checked out revision 9.

However not the one we are hunting after yet, We are looking closer at the problem once again by running different applications. Dammit my soup just burned to the pan :( I'll get back to you folks with my testing updates after this intervention. (I hope)