Marek Mahut

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

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? ;)

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 [...]

Fedora 10 is out! GET IT NOW! Check what’s new.

If you are using clustered service with kerberos, you may want to merge hostnames keytab files to one for simple distribution.

Create host and service principals.

kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node1.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node2.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node3.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node4.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node5.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node6.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node7.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc [...]

Interesting. Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover inc. – the company which produces BitKeeper, was quite afraid of open source competition mercurial back in 2005. Now, we know why.
From: Bryan O’Sullivan <bos <at> serpentine.com>
Subject: Why I am no longer working on Mercurial
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.devel
Date: 2005-09-30 21:40:55 GMT
As I mentioned the other day, I will not be [...]

Congratulation to my ex-CEO, Matthew Szulik, for his Ernst & Young National Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award. Matthew’s acceptance speech.