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

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? ;)

Did it ever happen to you by mistake to add one additional digit into dns serial number? Ooops! Now, how to fix it?

Increase the serial number to (2^31) – (correct serial number) and reload named. For example 2^31-2009010602 = 138473046. As DNS serial numbers are signed integers, this make server thinks that it’s a negative [...]

Please test gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update.

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Marek Mahut <mma…@fedoraproject.org> – 3.1.3-2
- Upstream release 3.1.3
- Comedi support
- RHBZ#473928 Unowned directories

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I find Matt Asay’s new article about Mark Murphy’s analyzes on Oracle enterprise linux very interesting, quoting part of the article.

Oracle has failed in its attempt to enter the Linux market. Our recent survey of Oracle database customers reveals that only 1 out of 32 customers currently uses Oracle Unbreakable Linux. This one customer also [...]