http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress /var/log/leo.log Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You have Linux guest running on top of a (recent) VMware esx and you want to extend one of the disks (Not the root fs) ? You can do it without a reboot/downtime - Resize the disk on VMware (e.g via virtual center) - Go to the Linux guest os and run: ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=82 Dear Lazyweb, Is there an (XML based) standard to advertise opening hours of a shop? The way it should work in an ideal world for me: Every shop has a simple file somewhere on their website (e.g http://www.shop.be/openinghours.xml) which contains the opening hours in a standardized (preferably XML) format. That way ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=80 In the latest versions of the OpenSUSE 11.1 beta a new cool feature/innovation was added and it goes by the name of 'Nomad'. Make sure you check the OpenSUSE wiki page to learn more about it. http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=79 I wrote a Heartbeat2 resource agent to make your NCP volumes on an OES2 Linux server highly availble if you don't want to use Novell Cluster Services (NCS). This only works for NCP volumes that do _NOT_ reside on NSS! Take the resource agent and drop it in /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/ Create an IP resource ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=77 Warning *RANT* First off all let me start this post by stating that samba is a great and very powerful piece of software BUT configuration and management can be a real PITA Let me give some examples of what I mean - Samba + LDAP If you're setting up a samba as a PDC in ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=76 Title says it all ;) For people that use puppet on OpenSuSE there was a small problem since 10.2 because from that release on OpenSuSE did not include the rug command anymore to manage software.... but it's still the default package provider for puppet (OpenSuSE switched to zypper). So this weekend I ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=75 Today I saw a presentation from Acresso, the guys from AdminStudio and InstallShield. The topic was Application Virtualization with products like Thinapp (formerly Thinstall) and Citrix. I learned that with these kind of technologies it's possible to create an executable of any (windows) application (msi) which also contains all the dependencies that ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=74 Today I received the openSusE 11.0 (DVD) Box. It contains a DVD, Start-up guide and 2 stickers. (Contributors to the project receive this gift as a way to thank them for their participation) Thanks Novell/SuSE! http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=73 Dear VMware, Please release a version of the VMware Infrastructure Client for Linux. (As a bonus the license server and VirtualCenter on Linux would make it complete) I know you can do it, you proved it already with your ESX product. My eternal respect will be your reward ;-) Thanks, Leo http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=72 You can get both applications to work but it requires some manual work (On my laptop I did an upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0) iFolder It's very important that you install the right version of log4net. iFolder and simias requires version 1.2.9 while openSUSE 11.0 ships with 1.2.10 in order to fix ... http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=71