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…

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…

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…

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/…