Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Couple of months ago I wrote about the High Availability Storage Foundation , on SLES 10 !

Jo's great document is now finally available on http://wiki.novell.com/images/3/37/Exploring_HASF.pdf

Christophe Vandeplas is Inviting FOSDEM 2007 speakers
this is a really good evolution, Fosdem used to be a conference with no call for papers/talks, hence lots of interesting topics were never tackled since they didn't catch the eye of one of the organisers. A couple of people including myselve have been asking for a CFP , even limited , for a couple of years now. Altough I haven't seen any form or an email address to send proposals to . I guess that Christophe's blog entry might be your best starting point :)

Anyway.. for those who want to share their projects with the rest of world before Fosdem there is always T-Dose, but you have to take the risk to go to Eindhoven rather than Brussels :)

So when Seklos showed the world ,well Oracle OpenWorld anyway, how to migrate from RedHat support to Oracle support ,
the whole industry started to comment on what Oracle was trying to do.

People claimed oracle was still thinking old-school
, that Oracle is trying to kill redhat because it is still mad about Jboss or that they wanted to give even better support

But aren't we missing the real point, I haven't seen any comment about who is really going to be the victim of this anouncement. Yes RedHat will loose some customers that were already short on money , or qualified enough themselves to support linux, but just didn't dare to take the move to CentOS or Debian because they needed a supported Oracle platform.

The real victims however are the Solaris, HP-UX and AIX platforms of this world , the oldschool Unixes.

Today Oracle has a fully supported platform, from the operating system , the middleware layer up to the database (where their money is) they can offer a customer everything but the hardware (who's for sale ?) and support the whole platform. It's obvious that as of now the main platform to run Oracle on is Linux,not Solaris, not HPUX, not AIX , not Windows but Linux,

So who is going to loose the most number of customers over this announcement. ??

Apart from that I however was wondering why did Seklos had to give that presentation and not some marketing bimbo. Seklos should go back to writing code :) Weird how suddenly the local press figures out there is someone from our little country doing important things in Redwood, the techies have known this for ages (actually since he left Leuven)

So yesterday I finally had 10 minutes time to continue installing Linux on the MacMini .
It was easy .. just a matter of installing rEFIT and FC6.

The result .. a dual booting MacMini, ready to be Xenified, just a matter of time... :)

I`m wondering where I should place this
warning sign

Found via Warning Signs for the Future

Congrats to Thomas and my good friend Matt for going to Linux.conf.au !
Too bad I'm not gonna make it this year.. Thinking back about the 2005 balloon ride all the speakers got, I can only guess what they'll do in Sydney this year :)

So Thomas will be the 2nd .be speaker at linux.conf.au ever , what's keeping Dries ?
Actually Thomas, your Savon talk will probably fit better at conferences such as Sane or the UKUUG Spring Conference , or if you want to .. T-Dose.org

Anyway .. congrats to both of you .. and enjoy .au !

Harald Welte is right about the LWE people knowing how to run a Trade show but not a conference.

Comon, a conference with what.. 8 talks ? Did they even want a conference ? And if they wanted one I`m wondering what their target audience was and what kind of speakers/topics would interrest visitors of such a tradeshow. Xen was a big hit for sure .. with lots of people standing in the back and sitting on the floor in the front listening to both our talks. If the audience of a InfoSecurity, StorageExpo and LinuxWorld mainly consist of IT Managers and people involved in buying infrastructure, what kind of talks should you schedule ?
I`m sure there were some Linuxgeeks around the floor interrested in the talks.. but what was the general audience ?

Did they really care about , GPLViloations, the internals of Xen , or how to autodeploy it in a large scale environment ? I really hope so.. but I fear that such local tradeshows don't attract the audience for such topic. Sure some individual visitors will have learned a lot from the talks, but my guess is the bigger part of the audience didn't bother seeing the talks, they just went there to get the freebies, see the hostesses and have a reason not to be in the office for a day, no really the number of Novell bags you saw downtown Utrecht in the afternoon ... explains a lot :)

So for the next edition, maybe a brainstorm on who you want to see in your talks, what do you want to tell the people. Do you want to attrack corporate people or FLOSS enthousiasts. I`m used to give talks to both audiences, but I really wasn't sure what to expect.

But anyway .. thnx for the Manual Power thingie , I hope it really works for my wrists ;)

My talk from earlier today at LinuxWorldExpo in Utrecht is online now, nothing much new in there ,just a mix of previous Xen related talks spiced up with a couple of slides on Xen Enterprise and OpenQRM.

More about Linux World Expo Utrecht later :)

Lefred
claims his top 10 command today was ssh.. I`m sure it wasn't. It was either ifconfig or ping !

Following up on Wouter's
here are mine..

On my laptop :

sdog@mine2 ~$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
   227 ssh
   196 ls
   142 cd
    94 su
    34 ping
    32 vi
    28 rm
    25 history
    23 more
    19 sed

That's kind of what you expect :)

On my remote shell/web box however ..

buytaert@emperor:~$  history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
   140 ls
    78 cd
    72 ./clean_blog_comments.sh
    58 vi
    16 more
    15 ./restore
    14 ssh
    12 du
    10 rm
     6 ps

The clean_blog comments and restore are more troubling. Restore is the script I use to restore a the openMosix and IBMnetstation Wiki's when they have been attacked by spammers.. Spammers should be punished !!!