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.…
I'm stuck of the requests linking php5 on backports.org [http://backports.org] against "MySQL5". You need support of MySQL5 or the mysqli extention for your php5 packages for sarge? So the packages on backports.org [http://backports.org] are not what you want. The packages…
# grep -i vroot /boot/config*-vserver* /boot/config-2.6.16-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.17-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.18-3-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set /boot/config-2.6.18-4-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set Does anybody know, why…
Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/], I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable. The event was organized quite well like…
Today I found a way to combine consuming my favorite Radio Station [http://www.friskyradio.com/] and using my favorite System Distribution [http://www.debian.org/]. On working hours and most of the time at home I'm listening to Frisky Radio [http://www.friskyradio.com/], founded by Faisal…
With policyd-weight [http://policyd-weight.org/] you are able to reject mails before the body is received by your MTA, here postfix [http://www.postfix.org]. No bounce mails, less wasted bandwidth and cpu time. policyd-weight scores characteristics of the mail positive or negative, is a defined value reached, it got…
Yesterday the release manager Andreas 'aba' Barth announced: > Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html] This means, that "all packages now need to be hand-approved in order to go to testing". So policyd-weight [http://packages.qa.debian.org/…
Ganneff did a lot work and flushed NEW nearly complete. Now asused, dns-flood-detector, php5-tidy, policyd-weight and ps-watcher got into unstable. php-suhosin, which is co-maintained by me got also in.…