For those who doesn’t know… a few years back I made the site www.debianart.dk which was supposed to be the center of graphics for Debian. It never took off, mostly because I didn’t really have the time and it didn’t help that I started using Ubuntu instead. I was running Debian unstable at the time because I wanted the latest and greatest (Gnome among other things) so the jump to Ubuntu wasn’t really that big.
Read more...In the lastest version of Ubuntu (version 7.04 - Feisty Fawn) kernel modules for VMware Server is available in the package vmware-server-kernel-modules from Ubuntus package repository. The VMware Server itself is at the moment not. You still need to install VMware Server from the tar.gz download from www.vmware.com.
Read more...When I came home from work today I read Planet Gnome, I usually visit Planet Gnome several times a day so nothing new in that. But this time I found the post “tsclient 0.150 - call for translators” post by Jonh Wendell.
Read more...After buying my Squeezebox I wanted to rip all my music to a lossless music format to get maximum quality out of the little thing. And the Open Source lover that I am the choice fell on FLAC. One problem though…
Read more...2 days ago I recieved my Squeezebox… finally I pulled my head out and bought one. I should have done this along time ago. This is one of the best investments since my IBM x40… and that says a lot. At first I got really disappointed because I couldn’t get the Squeezebox to connect to the wireless network. After a few hours tinkering with my wireless access point and the Squeezebox wireless settings I gave up. I plugged it to the network with a wire and installed the latest Slimserver on my Windows partition (I know, I know… Windows, not something I was proud of).
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Last week I found this Avatar while browsing the Ubuntu community forums. I really like the style and decided to make one myself which should also look kinda like me.
While on my winter vacation I played around with the Gtk.TreeView and the right click challanges. I found a way to extract the row which is clicked on and the data within.
Read more...Yesterday I needed an xsl transformation which could replace a specific attribute value in a xml file and keep the rest intact. The following code is put together by pieces I found around the net (copy-paste FTW :) ):
Read more...While working on implementing failover for a JBoss application in heartbeat I had it sometimes fail miserably. After examining the logs files for a while I noticed that it tried to start my service twice.. why?
Read more...One of our customers have a JBoss application which they wanted to monitor with a script (in the long run Heartbeat2). By making a specific HTTP POST request to which the answer is known, it is possible to check if the server is running as expected. The HTTP POST request consist of a header and a body. The header is automaticaly generate from the parameters you provide curl and the body is provided in the --data parameter.