recent eGroupware for debian

Since one week eGroupware 1.4RC1 [http://www.egroupware.org/] is available. Peter did upload it into experimental [http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/egroupware/news/20070521T124705Z.html] and I did repackage it for etch, for a smarty integration (dpkg -i for > 15 packages sucks). You can download it…

Pimp my T5725

Yesterday my ordered HP Thin Client T5725 [http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3221863.html] arrived. The clue is, Debian sarge [http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/] is and no moving parts (no noise) are inside. It's a really nice thin client and it…

New Wordpress (2.2.0) etch-backport

I did rebuild the brand new version of wordpress for etch. New user requests and etch-bpo [http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20070419.092600.5007052f.en.html] stated: > * Is the backport neccessary? I don't think we should upload packages to bpo simply because we can do it…

windows in domU on etch. where is the showstopper?

Since some days I'm trying to install windows into a domU just for fun. All went fine until accessing discs. Sometime partition is not formatable [http://kaoso.org/pics/xen-windowsxp.png], sometimes files could not read from cdrom. To be sure, it's not the disc image,…

Is DNSSEC ready for wild life?

Today the RIPE DNS for LIRs Training Course [http://www.ripe.net/training/dns/index.html] did take place. (some not up to date course material can be found here [http://www.ripe.net/training/dns/material/]) Managing some thousands of zones inclusive nameserver infrastructure behind since several years, I…

Got Hardware Donation

Last weekend I got a hardware donation from muempf [http://blog.pigwidgeon.de]. It's a new 1U server with the following specs: > Supermicro P8SCi Systemboard [http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCi.cfm] Intel P4 3.00GHz 2x 512 MB DDR2 533MHz unbuffered ECC Systemmemory…

Taking Xen guests (domU) alive via routed network

The xend config looks like this: playground:~# grep -v ^# /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=dummy0') (vif-script vif-bridge) (dom0-min-mem 196) (dom0-cpus 0) Creating volume group for Xen domU (/dev/hdb2 was allready created with id 8e): playground:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb2 Physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully…

Getting started with XEN on etch

Today I thought it's time to look deeper into the Xen [http://www.xensource.com/] hype. So I decided to install xen on etch [http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/]. I followed Ganneffs recommandation [http://kosh.ganneff.de/~joerg/clt2007_xen.pdf] playground:~# aptitude install bridge-utils iproute \ xen-ioemu-3.…