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Karsten Wade: SCALE 10X-citement – oVirt and starting a FOSS project
After having to sadly cancel last year for SCALE 9X, my family and I are looking forward (nervously) to SCALE 10X this coming weekend. You’ll see us at: FOSS Mentoring on Friday, I talk at 3 pm....
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Niels de Vos: Displaying Gluster traffic in Wireshark
As part of my job, I am doing some tests with the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance. The current version of RHSSA is based on Gluster 3.2.5. After some experiments, it seem that Gluster is pretty...
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Sebastian Dziallas: More SOPA News: check out the blackout gallery!
Earlier, word spread quickly that Wikipedia was going to go dark today (January 18), leaving millions of students without access to their favorite research resource. Soon thereafter, rumours surfaced...
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Richard W.M. Jones: virt-format: Erase and make blank disks
There is a new tool in libguestfs ≥ 1.15.17: virt-format lets you erase disks and make blank disks. Usage is quite simple: $ virt-format -a disk.img (Note that erases any data on disk.img!) This works...
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Greg DeKoenigsberg: FUDCon, How I’ve Missed You
It’s always nice to visit family for a while, and see how the kids have grown. FUDCon Blacksburg felt an awful lot like a family reunion — except one with a lot more learnin’ going on. Just a small...
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Sebastian Dziallas: Off to LA tomorrow: SCALE 10x conference
I'll be heading to SCALE early tomorrow morning. I had previously been accepted as a speaker last year but couldn't make it due to travel constraints. So I'm even more looking forward to attending the...
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Radek Vokál: Developer Conference - what will you learn on day#2
The second day of the Developer Conference will be as packed as the first one. Hopefully the party on Friday night won’t make any harm on the attendance of first sessions. The opening session in...
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Ismael Olea: Thinkfan for Fedora
Here it is the first release of Thinkfan, a simple and lightweight fan control program, for Fedora. As a thinkpad user so it's obvious what my interest is, but developer assures now can manage other...
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Adam Williamson: FUDCon Blacksburg: My presentation, Cloud 0.1
In deference to Adam Young, I’m going to try and write a series of broken-down posts on FUDCon, rather than one or two giant mish-mash-y summaries. So, this one’s about the presentation I gave, titled...
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Adam Williamson: FUDCon Blacksburg: Social track
(This is part 3 of my FUDCon odyssey, which I’m trying to split into smaller chunks as per Adam Young’s suggestion. Part 1 is my Day 1 summary. Part 2 is a post on the topic of the talk I gave on the...
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Nicu Buculei: SOPA for non-Americans
Yesterday was the strike day against SOPA and PIPA and I tried to do my part: blacked-out my blogs, put related content on various places, shared link, informing. Many people seemed to understand the...
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Fabian Deutsch: fontkodo - Searching through a selection of f/loss repositories.
Fontkodo - best experienced with Firefox, but it also works with others - indexes the repositories hosted...
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Sirko Kemter: Call A Cab To Bring The Colors
Before I left openSUSE I had an little idea how to bring color managment on the Linux desktop forward. If you use colord or Oyranos on the end you will need always ICC-profiles. On ubuntu you can...
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Richard W.M. Jones: udev unexpectedness
This was unexpected: Write something to a partition device (eg. /dev/vda1) and immediately call blockdev --rereadpt /dev/vda to re-read the partition table of the whole device. Sometimes (about 50%...
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Richard W.M. Jones: Why can’t you live migrate from newer to older versions...
I answered a question on a mailing list about live migration versus copying guests between different versions of KVM on RHEL. The complainant observed that you can’t live migrate from RHEL 6.2 to RHEL...
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Jesus Rodriguez (zeus): Piracy bills are ludicrous
Honorable Senator Hagan, I sincerely doubt that American economy is affected by $58 billion a year due to piracy. That is precisely the problem I have with all piracy bills, their ludicrous claims of...
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Andres Pascasio: El inicio del Proyecto Pilas en Fedora
¿Qué es el Proyecto Pilas? Pilas es un motor para hacer videojuegos de manera sencilla, y tiene como finalidad facilitar el desarrollo de videojuegos a todas las personas. Está dirigido a personas que...
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Clint Savage: FUDCon Blacksburg: sysadminSG, Fedora Infrastructure, pam_otp...
Well, FUDCon Blacksburg has come and gone. I believe it was the most productive I’ve been at a FUDCon EVER! I was able to get quite a bit accomplished and much more than I had planned! What was it...
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"Kenobi": The SPA thievery…
While most of the World has it’s eyes on SOPA and PIPA, the Portuguese struggle with what is called “Lei da cópia privada” (free translation: Private Copy Act), an initiative endorsed by the...
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Ingvar Hagelund: Finding what binaries to restart
When I started working with Linux system administration a few years ago, restarting services after a package upgrade was fairly easy. If the package didn’t restart itself, one could always ask lsof...
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