Marek Mahut

Thanks to Radek Vokal, you can watch video recordings of few presentations from Red Hat devconf 2009. Enjoy!

First amateur radio astronomy detection of Cygnus A and the Hydrogen-line in Slovak Republic has been done with Fedora system using gnuradio software package.
More information on WavesFromSpace.org.

Red Hat Czech announced an open conference in Brno for all open source developers and users (yeah, sysadmins are also users). The list of presentations and workshops is growing and I already found some interested topics I’m looking forward to attend. Bookmark the link to its wiki page, more information will follow shortly.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009

Not much time in my life for blogging, but I never forget to post an valuable picture if I see one. Also, on side note, I’ll be in Raleigh, NC for next two weeks – drop me a line if you want to have a beer.

Red Hat Czech invites you to Open House event in Brno. Come and see how enterprise open source software is build – be a part of it! :)

Recently I bought an external USB Disk Seagate FreeAgent XTreme, but after some idle time, it spanned down. Take me a while to find out how to disable this standby mode. First install sdparm.
If you want to start the drive in standby:
sdparm –command=start /dev/sdb
To clean standby mode flag:
sdparm –clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdb && sdparm -a [...]

Wow! Even VMware understood the power of open source, they just announced open souce vmware client. Who will get it first into Fedora? ;)

Ok, this is too strange even for me – I have to share it.
A goat has been taken to the police in Nigeria on suspicion of attempted armed robbery in the African country’s western Kwara State. A group of vigilantes took the animal to the police arguing it was an armed robber who was trying [...]