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Telnet Star Wars

Now just open a terminal and enter this:

telnet 193.202.115.241

enjoy!


RHEL5, GFS2 and DRBD8

I've finally built my first cluster on rhel5 using gfs2 and drbd8 :-D

drbd makes a network raid1 between two physical distinguished block devices (eg. internal disks of two servers) and from the release 8.0 it supports the active/active configuration.

gfs2 permits to the two server machines a concurrent mount of the network replicated drbd device.

rhel5 is the OS I've installed on the two machines.

Practically with this stuff the servers share …


Fluendo on PPC

Unfortunately my GNU/Linux box is a PowerPC and I had the privilege of finding all sort of strange Fluendo bugs... but apart from bugs, the gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 plugin consumes much more CPU (about 22% against 7%) than the standard mad plugin for gstreamer (found in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly collection) and fluendo-mp3 is licensed under the MIT license while the mad library is instead GPL. Last but not least, I've no data to show that but …


OS X Network Install using Linux

The title says it all. We're going to install an OS X client via network using a GNU/Linux box as DHCP/TFTP/NFS server.

First you'll want to setup your DHCP, TFTP and NFS server.

The default location for the TFTP server root on my system was /tftpboot. It may be different on other distro so change at will. This directory is where we're going to put all the important files. Three files come …

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