22 Dec 09 Merry Christmas

From here I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy, successful and healthy 2010 !!

05 Sep 09 Kattenbroek to get fiber optics network !

And over half a year past our start, we have a go on achieving our fiber optics network in the neighborhood.. What will this mean? Higher bandwidths while the prices remain acceptable… (cheap, in my opinion…)..

seven monhts of hard work.. finally being payed off !!

05 May 09 Passed for RHCA

Last week I’ve been to London again for my last Red Hat course.. With this I have achieved my RHCA status.

Am I happy about this? no doubt.. It taught me well about several enterprise implementations of Red Hat products that enhanced my knowledge on those topics towards the datacenter as a whole. Now with that knowledge I’ll be able to implement and maintain datacenters better and decide what products are good or better than others.

Hopefully in the near future this will help me with additional job opportunities within my work right now.

Now I have to look further what trainings to take next

Tags: Linux, red hat, RHCA, training

20 Feb 09 Upgrade Fedora 9 to 10, with IPA-server

Hi again,

Just today I have upgraded my Fedora 9 IPA-server to the latest Fedora version, namely Fedora 10.

As reckless can one be.. just upgrade the system (with all of its db4 libraries), while the ipa instance is still running, increasing the risk of corrupting the (live) berkeley databases that are the back-end of the ldap instances.

I managed to fix the problems I encountered.. read on to read about my investigation and how I solved the problem, it might be of use if you happen to have the same symptoms . . .

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Tags: corruption, db4, dbscan, dirsrv, fedora, freeipa, ipa, ldif2db, problems, upgrade

18 Feb 09 Kattenbroek connected to fiber…

It finally is taking off.. Don’t know how long until it gets actually connected, but Kattenbroek (the area of Amersfoort I live in) has an initiative started to get connected to the fiber network. Therefore, I happily show the following banner:

Tags: fiber, internet, kattenbroek

15 Jan 09 Writing speed

Using Dvorak, I sure have the idea I am an ‘above average’ typist. Though my work does not need real typing speed, it is nice to notice the speed improvement over time and it sure helps in typing code rather easy..

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Tags: dvorak, speed, typing

23 Dec 08 Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10

It went smooth… so I thought…

Oh. wait, this sounds worse than it is… it WENT smooth.. but not totally flawless!.. Here’s what I found out when upgrading Fedora 9 to 10.

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Tags: authorized_keys, cyrus, f10, f9, fedora, imap, Linux, selinux, sshd, upgrade

23 Oct 08 For everything a first time

This is my first post using a Blog client..

It’s Drivel.. It works well on Linux and seems to be the tool that actually makes me post blogs without me needing to use the browser

Even subjects and a category can be added… though I miss the possibility to select multiple categories, nor can I add tags to the post… This will definitely need more work…

A good step forward..

20 Oct 08 Google Chrome does not work with HP ILO interface

Unfortunately, HP ILO (C Class Blades, so ILO2) does not work well together with Google Chrome..

I don’t know why, but Chrome doesn’t proceed from ‘Loading’ to the login screen.. This issue is rather annoying, as this is a major blocker in us being able to adopt this new browser.

Why do we want to adopt this browser?.. That is because it has nice features, like very fast javascript rendering, the Safari browser being used and the possibility to turn web pages into applications with the ‘create shortcut’ option.

Last but not least, Chrome will be multi platform once it ends Beta phase, which we endorse.

Tags: browser, chrome, hp, ilo2

17 Oct 08 A successful dive, at last

Last Sunday, I had my first successful dive in about a year…

Last week I tried as well, but I was unlucky not to be able to clear my ears, disabling the descent below 3 meters.

But last Sunday, it was awesome, in the nice water of Dutch Vinkeveen, I saw a snoek, was rather nice.. It’s my 31st dive together with my girlfriend, preparing myself to go diving in Mexico, this November.. It will be fun!..

Tags: clear, Diving, vinkeveen