"openQRM is not dead" by Kris B.

Kris Buytaert is talking about "openQRM is not dead" at the Linuxsymposium 2008 in Ottawa !

He is talking about the next generation of openQRM ported from java to php.

Please find the slides of his talk at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/node/688

Many thanks to Kris for pushing the openQRM Project to the next level.
Also big thanks to Aland for organising the virtualization miniconf on
behalf of Linuxsymposium !

Enjoy !

openQRM: Managing data-center from mobile devices

Since the re-write and port to PHP it is now possible to run the light-weight openQRM GUI on mobile devices like shown below on my Nokia E51 mobile phone. Works flawlessly.



Need to provision some new systems for your customers or check your data-center status while travelling around ? No problem any more :)

scientific toys : a jiggle-bot

I love scientific toys, ecpecially mechanical ones. Here some nice example of "mechanical intellygence", it is a wind-up robot toy which randomly moves around in a very hectic way by jiggling a small weight around. The mechanism is very similar to the one of the bristlebot.







... our cat hates it ;)

udev on the initrd :)

Made some big improvements on the openQRM project today by implementing udev in the initrd-stage so that unique disk identifier are available during the root-mount opterations. So an Iscsi root-device is now e.g. named :

/dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.10.1:3260-iscsi-iqn.2008-06.storage.lun0-lun-0-part1

instead of

/dev/sdxy

What a fun !!! Iscsi rocks !
I wanted to have this unique identifiers since the first time we had Iscsi-root deployment support in openQRM some years ago.

.... progressing fine for the next 4.1 release of openQRM