tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005884285172438942011-11-28T00:19:31.795+01:00... oh, yes, i am blogging too :)Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-81634016934686463892011-11-13T13:08:00.016+01:002011-11-13T13:31:23.611+01:00

Some facts about running datacenters and web servicesToday I would like you to "start from the scratch" when looking at your datacenter services! Starting from the upper endpoint, the end-user of your service, I will go down and list the dependencies of the service from one step to the next.Please notice that those dependencies are also true for any type of Cloud Computing services!Dependencies:

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-44003380208289200402011-11-13T12:49:00.002+01:002011-11-13T12:54:09.639+01:00

With Cloud Zones, native VMware vSphere/ESX support and lots of improvements to the base system and plugins, openQRM 4.9 opens up new dimensions in professional datacenter management. These are the highlights of the new version:Cloud ZonesImplement Cloud Computing services across multiple datacenter locations, each running their own openQRM infrastructure - seamlessly managed with a

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-78513256307872879362010-10-25T11:49:00.005+02:002010-10-25T11:56:05.477+02:00

Just deployed a 100 KVM VM cluster in our openQRM Cloud QA environment via the Visual Infrastructure Designer (screenshot below) ... dragging and dropping VMs in the openQRM Cloud is almost too simple.(and actually those are 102 nodes)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-41717418632436731752010-10-20T15:44:00.001+02:002010-10-20T15:46:56.326+02:00

Just found an old video of myself as a professional BMX rider.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-17188327231673214712010-09-11T12:22:00.012+02:002010-09-11T12:43:27.042+02:00

me, having fun in Renesse (Grevelingen Meer)gliding ...turning ...shifting ...

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-13474270603322143722010-01-07T17:02:00.010+01:002010-01-07T17:16:18.165+01:00

Screenshots telling more than words ....This video provides some details about the new features in openQRM 4.6Please find screenshots and more details about the tons of new cool functionalities in the new release at :http://www.openqrm-enterprise.comEnjoy !

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-72997980597953523402009-12-16T20:15:00.009+01:002009-12-22T21:13:14.484+01:00

... and here what Google "says" about openQRM Enterprise.btw: the "here" link above points to the google-translate engine which then outputs in tss meaning "speak". By clicking on the link Google speaks the sentence given as the parameter.As reported this is not supported by all browser. ;) works fine here on Linux/Firefox.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-81079175779574158512009-08-20T11:01:00.003+02:002009-08-20T11:04:52.363+02:00

Here a screenshot of running Linux via JPC within a browser in the Amiga Workbench Emulator which also runs in a browser :... and lets try to install a Hypervisor within the double embedded Linux in a webbrowser and to run some virtual machines on it LOL.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-55536944389539432102009-05-26T01:29:00.002+02:002009-05-26T01:35:10.220+02:00

.. sitting on our balcony with my wife having some drinks in the night. Both checking emails and stuff with our notebooks :she: we are kind little crazy browsing emails/web at 2:30 a.m. in holiday ...me: yes, right, but my notebook-batteries will last longer ...she: ok, but I am connected to the power-suppy :P

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-51386974076445108512009-04-18T23:15:00.003+02:002009-04-18T23:19:16.608+02:00

My reply to the post "On the dangers of OHV" at : http://virtualization.com/guest-posts/2009/04/17/on-the-dangers-of-ovf/ from Kris Buytaert :I would like to suggest to try out openQRM. That way you can perfectly separate "hardware" (virtual or phyiscal) from "software" (your server-images). With openQRM you are completely independent from any virtual disk-image format. Server-images in openQRM

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-60776572107292819462009-04-18T22:50:00.000+02:002009-04-18T22:51:19.151+02:00

"Howto run Desktop applications in the Cloud ?"enjoy

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-77796566571632517162009-04-18T14:26:00.001+02:002009-04-18T14:28:54.217+02:00

just found a great video post of my friend Kris B. about open-source, "The way it is".Enjoy open-source !!

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-32972540787004029772009-04-09T11:25:00.004+02:002009-04-09T11:32:53.458+02:00

Interesting upcoming Conference about "Legal Matters of interest for professional Open Source users" organized by Raphael Bauduin on the 28. April 2009. Here what this Profoss.eu event is all about :As Free and Open Source software have matured, they have taken a central and critical place in the enterprise. This new approach in licensing software has impact on all levels of business: internal

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-5296274864899601182009-03-20T16:04:00.004+01:002009-03-20T16:06:59.428+01:00

Live streaming video by UstreamPlease check http://www.openqrm.com/?q=node/142 for more.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-11959035714978261922009-01-02T14:52:00.002+01:002009-01-02T14:54:47.045+01:00

This new Cloud Computing Howto should make it really easy for everybody to setup their own private and public clouds.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-875691829010189232008-11-16T15:34:00.001+01:002008-11-16T15:36:54.909+01:00

enjoy Cloud Computing with the just released openQRM 4.2

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-70605221274545898892008-10-29T12:46:00.007+01:002008-10-29T12:56:50.259+01:00

Check out the place to be for tomorrow, 30. October 2008 !CloudCamp in BrusselsThis event is the best opportunity to get in conctat with other cloud-computing enthusiasts, to discuss and to get facts about technical details plus the business perspective. Register here and cu there :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-541833794912643512008-10-28T13:05:00.004+01:002008-10-28T13:09:03.483+01:00

Had the chance to meet John Willis at last weekend's T-Dose open-source conference. He is the man behind the "IT Management and Cloud Blog" and he created a podcast about "OpenQRM - The Little Four are Back" for his "CloudCafe" blog. Thanks John !Enjoy :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-10293866393026783122008-10-23T11:32:00.003+02:002008-10-23T11:37:43.185+02:00

If you want to get facts about ERP do not miss the Event on Open Source ERP solutions at the 18 november and 2 december 2008 ! Profoss (http://www.profoss.eu) is organising an informative event on 19 november and 2 december 2008 in Brussels about open source ERP solutions, proposing talks by specialists in ERP and enterprise IT. This event is aimed for IT professionals looking to expand their

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-20398607410554789492008-10-09T17:40:00.005+02:002008-10-09T17:42:59.828+02:00

Bottom line first: This is a story of success !My lovely mum was used to a Windows 2003 system which was fully filled with crap programs she never need. With some assistance she got quite familiar with email, surfing in the net, capturing and modifying pictures from her digital camera, scanning paintings, chatting with skype and so on.So it recently happens that her system got unstable. It turned

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-66630319093893793512008-10-09T13:43:00.005+02:002008-10-09T13:48:41.152+02:00

then I would like to recommend a previous workmate and good friend Kfir Cohen. He is currently looking for new opportunities in Europe.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-81758330137794258412008-09-27T14:07:00.002+02:002008-09-27T14:09:15.020+02:00

... a video says more than words :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-62886916029121064782008-08-22T12:19:00.009+02:002008-08-22T12:31:42.410+02:00

Looking forward to the FrOSCon-Conference this weekend.Plan to go there with some friends and enjoy some interesting talks about OpenVZ, Virtualization with Xen, Clustering with Linux-HA Version2 and System-monitoring with Nagios. Sounds like fun so cu there.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-2788395782582603442008-08-22T12:16:00.001+02:002008-08-22T12:19:25.640+02:00

:) got interviewed by the Ostatic-Team.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-14049273961156899412008-08-10T11:48:00.007+02:002008-08-10T12:02:14.402+02:00

Installing openQRM wasn't always that easy. I always wanted to have this step running smooth and transparent by having standard packages for the different linux distributions. openQRM should be install-able by e.g. just running : sudo apt-get install openqrmThomas Halinka (http://linuxfellaz.net) just made this possible !Here his announcement about the new openQRM package repositories.Thanks

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-8015979211116388492008-07-23T08:11:00.006+02:002008-07-23T08:15:29.806+02:00

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/688Many thanks to Kris for pushing the openQRM Project to the next level.Also big thanks to Aland for organising the virtualization miniconf onbehalf of

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-22332972069990589282008-07-12T22:47:00.008+02:002008-07-12T23:04:01.803+02:00

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 :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-35811193481739788142008-07-12T22:42:00.005+02:002008-07-12T23:01:09.603+02:00

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 ;)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-22964150537038304272008-07-04T19:13:00.007+02:002008-07-04T19:20:53.725+02:00

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/sdxyWhat a fun !!! Iscsi rocks !I wanted to have this unique identifiers since

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-62278834005721078642008-06-19T19:53:00.008+02:002008-06-19T20:14:32.927+02:00

:) We got some nice coverage in the news about the 4.0 release of openQRM.Here some samples ...... on Kris Buytaert's blog :on Tarry Singh's blog :and on Virtualization.com :... also found it on the main sourceforge.net page :and heise.de picked it up too :and on my blog at networkworld.comThanks a lot !!

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-11980461897653351732008-06-16T11:28:00.004+02:002008-06-16T11:35:29.503+02:00

... because I was working full steam ahead on openQRM 4.0 (beta) which was just released at http://openqrm.sourceforge.net/Here some screenshotsEnjoy !!

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-79632883854906732862008-04-11T13:38:00.008+02:002008-04-11T13:50:33.964+02:00

openQRM 3.5 has been released :)Here some screenshots of the news spreading out :http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=809373http://virtualization.com/guest-posts-guestposts/2008/04/09/qlusters-releases-openqrm-3.5/http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2008/04/openqrm-35-relesed-control-your.htmlhttp://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/10/qlusters-waves-goodbye-to-openqrm/http://

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-10673422631109076632008-03-19T11:23:00.002+01:002008-03-19T11:29:48.989+01:00

Couldn't believe my eyes what I just found on Tarry's blog !The hype about Virtualization reached its next level at http://www.virtualizationgirl.com/... mhmm, www.virtualizationboy.com is still free ! I feel my chance .....

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-66694577135621133042008-03-18T10:59:00.004+01:002008-03-18T11:04:52.978+01:00

... this is the title of the talk Kris Buytaert will give at the Linux World Expo Brussel (19.-20.3.2008). Great Kris ! All the best for your presentation :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-17625992126430681562008-02-25T12:26:00.004+01:002008-02-25T12:35:29.027+01:00

Toon Vanagt interviewed the speakers of the Profoss.eu Virtualization conference for Virtualization.com. Here a link to the video of the interview with me about the role of openQRM in virtualization management.Enjoy and many thanks to Toon !

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-17193924510853160032008-02-16T09:58:00.003+01:002008-02-16T10:06:42.341+01:00

Here an interview about the upcoming openQRM presentation openQRM, pluggable virtualization for modern data-centersat Fosdem 2008.enjoy + cu soon in Brussels

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-29271421538053292762008-02-15T16:52:00.003+01:002008-02-15T16:58:45.084+01:00

If you are looking for professional services for openQRM pleasecheck my sourceforge.net marketplace profile :)enjoy

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-28098994109989640652008-02-15T10:21:00.003+01:002008-02-15T10:38:25.020+01:00

my openQRM presentation at Linux.conf.au 2008 about "Unified management of different virtualization technologies with openQRM data-center management platform"got recorded. Please find the video(s) below.part 1part 2part 3part 4part 5

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-84027893396911137882008-02-13T18:13:00.003+01:002008-02-13T18:15:58.006+01:00

Recovered from the bad harddisk crash.Luckily (and because i DO backups) I did not lost any data.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-15356629857468350562008-02-13T11:46:00.003+01:002008-02-13T11:52:23.805+01:00

Local harddrives sucks ! Just came back from a 2 weeks trip from Linux.conf.au and found my harddisk of my workstation crashing with a hardware failure on first boot-up after the holiday. On recovering my system now. Cu tomorrow.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-65143170602777676172008-02-11T03:24:00.000+01:002008-02-11T03:32:32.294+01:00

... and I will talk about"openQRM, pluggable virtualization for modern data-centers" Fosdem 2008 will take place at the 23/24.2.2008 in Brussels, Belgium. The openQRM talk is scheduled for the Virtualization track (within the Main tracks) next to Achim Hasemueller, presenting Virtualbox and Ian Pratt speaking about Xen.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-76806942046067459762008-02-10T05:20:00.000+01:002008-02-10T05:22:52.986+01:00

This video shows my friend Chris McCormick performing his really cool experimental electronic music at the Velvet Lounge in Perth/Australia.The event took place at the 7.2.2008 and was accompanied by stylish video art. I like his style :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-39538313979364963182008-02-10T05:14:00.000+01:002008-02-10T05:20:21.545+01:00

At this years Linuxdays conference which will take place at the 19+20.2.2008 in Luxembourg I will be talking about :"Managing automated, profile based server installations with LinuxCOE and openQRM" Please find the abstract here and the original announcement here. Looking forward to meet you at Linuxdays.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-22177333827055644742008-02-06T10:04:00.000+01:002008-02-06T10:12:04.705+01:00

We are in Perth for a week and this is our local beach ... and nope, this is not a postcard ! The beach here is that awesome :) Today we spent most of the day in the crystal clear and warm water, relaxing, sun-bathing and body-boarding. Just GREAT !

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-16911040648956305352008-02-05T01:53:00.000+01:002008-02-05T01:58:55.918+01:00

Next years Linux.conf.au (2009) will take in Tasmania so be sure to not miss the call4papers :)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-55272470602520091072008-02-05T01:46:00.000+01:002008-02-05T01:53:08.740+01:00

This video was taken on the Open-day at Linux.conf.au 2008. It shows Rusty Russell's Pong-game which can be played on any surface it is projected to. The game is based on the techniques researched by Jonny Chung Lee.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-22158333673963921982008-02-03T00:58:00.000+01:002008-02-03T01:46:20.091+01:00

... some pictures of the open day at Linux.conf.au 2008Video of the famous Reprap 3D printer (http://reprap.org)Freedom Lovers !!!!

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-41690513828614470082008-02-02T08:33:00.000+01:002008-02-02T08:37:14.754+01:00

This is a video from the "hacking on lguest" tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne.Lguest is a new and very light virtualization technology created by Rusty Russels.It is very fast and basically allows to run "linux on linux". The video shows the lguest-host Qemu-image which was provided by the lguest-tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008. After the lguest-host is booted up a lguest

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-26217091994359636682008-02-02T08:21:00.000+01:002008-02-02T08:25:20.113+01:00

I am slowly adapting to the left-hand traffic in Australia ...

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-85045164835866973922008-02-02T00:43:00.000+01:002008-02-02T06:31:29.434+01:00

After the last presentations and talks at Linux.conf.au 2008 everybody was heading over to the big party sponsored by Google. Nice !... sadly we noticed that somehow the catering service stopped giving out beer at 8.30 p.m ! What the h... ?? Sorry, but no party without beer so we grouped up with some people and found a nice pub in Brunswick. That was fun and we had a great night. But LCA 2008 is

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-90613844229261022732008-02-01T09:00:00.000+01:002008-02-01T09:08:44.720+01:00

At Linux.conf.au 2008 a bunch of OLPC's were given out as present. The only premise was to either do something cool with it or to pass it over to somebody else who will do something cool with it. Nice ! ... some of the guys actually seemed to "misuse" the OLPC's as mobile phones. Strange evolution, mobile phones actually seemed to get bigger and bigger.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-25776452956111397772008-01-31T03:56:00.000+01:002008-01-31T04:04:21.986+01:00

Great introduction and tutorial about lguest from Rusty Russels at Linux.conf.au 2008 today (thursday). Lguest (former "lhype") is a very fast and lightweight virtualization approach which concentrates on "running Linux on Linux". New lguests vms are started by a lguest launcher util which basically reserves a specifc memory region in the Host kernel and then re-maps the (l)guests hypercalls.The

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-68582091744743725892008-01-30T06:10:00.000+01:002008-02-02T06:32:19.221+01:00

We just experienced a fire alarm at the Old Arts building used by Linux.conf.au.Luckily it could be resolved quite quick, nobody got hurt and the talks continuing.Funny thing was that the alarm ring seemed to be in a kind of high-available mode because it tried to restart again and again even after it has being turned off..... reminded me to yesterday when a small bread on the toaster in the

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189973144757677265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500588428517243894.post-91633327882742680302008-01-30T04:16:00.000+01:002008-02-02T06:33:34.704+01:00

Today Jonathan Oxer presented at Linux.conf.au 2008 about "Joining Second Life to the Real World". Really cool stuff !He demonstrated how to interact with the virtual objects inside Second Life using "real world" objects using various small hardware-hacks and making use of the famous Arduino microcontroller. One example was to use a serial RFID-reader, connected to a network socket, to open/close

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Here a pic of Linus Torvalds enjoying linux.conf.au 2008 ... a quote from my wife : "Until now, no groupies; seems Linus is save this year"

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Raphael put pictures from the Profoss.eu event online at Flickr.Here myself giving the presentation about "Conform deployment of virtual and physical machines with openQRM and Xen"

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Please find an interview about the topics of the upcoming openQRM presenation "Conform deployment of virtual and physical machines with openQRM and Xen"taking place at Profoss.eu in Bruessels on the 22. and 23. january here.Here some more infos about this upcoming event :The european virtualisation conference organised by Profoss (http://profoss.eu) will take place on 22 and 23 january in

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Tarry pointed out an interesting question on Linkedin : CIOs and IT Managers: Are you willing to adopt virtualization now?I fully agree with him about the challenge to adopt to virtualization today. It adds another layer of complexity to the IT infra structure which current tools are not ready to manage in a flexible and transparent way for the system-administrators.Nowadays a common data-center

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In cooperation with the openQRM-Team Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram successfully ported the openQRM-Server to the Solaris Operation System.Click here for the official announcementBig thanks to Siva for this great contribution !!

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The Pross.eu virtualisation conference concentrates on participants who want to discover and study the available virtualisation options, and so determine which solution is best adapted to their environment. It will takes place 22+23 january 2008 in Brussel and I am happy to announce a presentation for this event which will be about :"Conform deployment of virtual and physical machines with

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Got interested in "self balancing robots" and built myslef a "mylegway" based on the descriptions at http://www.philohome.com/nxtway/nxtway.htmInstead of using the NBC (next byte code) firmware of the original "NXTway" i developed my own balancing code using NQC (not quite C). What a fun :)

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Yesterday i used our Wii to initiate a cheap phone call via voice-over-ip.What a fun :) Here how it works :- switch the tv to the Wii- start the Wii internet channel- go to www.voipstunt.com (our sip-provider)- login with your username and password- click on phone2phone- type your phone number in the first field- type the destination phone number in the second field- press "connect"This will make

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This is a short report from the T-DOSE linux-conference which took place last weekend (13./14.10.2007) in Eindhoven/Netherland. Looking forward to the congress i arrived in Eindhoven on Saturday morning.Remembering the last year T-DOSE was a really nice and funny event so i was happy that i was invited to give a talk about "Automated rapid deployment in modern data-centers" there. (please find

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Just arranged two courses at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany.The first one is about Iscsi and cluster-filesstems (from the 8.10. to 10.10.2007), the second about the openQRM data-center management platform (from the 26.11. to the 28.11.2007).You can find more details about these two courses at :http://www.linuxhotel.de/kurs/openqrm/index.htmlandhttp://www.linuxhotel.de/kurs/

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Everybody is talking about the climate change and how to save the world by reducing pollution and energy-consumption. How openQRM can help ?I thought about it a while and came to the conclusion that openQRM actively supports reducing the power-consumption by its following key features:1. Server consolidationWith its automated provisioning technics openQRM takes server consolidation to the next

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Just came back from a first test of my self-made Kitewing !(please check my previous post)In short it works fine and is a loooot of fun :)As promised here a small video from the first test-ride :

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With windsurfing being one of my passions i found the "kitewing" (http://www.kitewing.com/), a combination between a surf-rigg and a hang-glider. Funny thing :) ... decided to build one by myself.Here pics from the final design and development :)Ok, looks good so far.For now i was able to only test it shortly on a small path, during rain and with very mixed wind and it worked ok. After this

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As announced the virtualization workshop at Linuxhotel took place this weekend (20.7. - 22.7.2007). One topic of this event was how to manage diffrent virtualization technologies with openQRM. As member of the openQRM-Team i (happily) was invited to contribute and to provide some details about the virtualization features in openQRM.Here a report of the weekend :Friday (evening):At friday evening

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Currently working on the LinuxCoe-plugin for openQRM and just got the Suse- and Debian-based automatic installations working fine :)Here a developement-screenshot from an automatic openSuse-installation monitored via vncviewer (a feature of autoyast):Need to do some more tests now and will prepare a new release soon.Enjoy !

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Found LinuxCoe -> http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/It is a really cool (open-source) tool from HP for creating iso-images which then fully automatically install your favourite linux distribution on a system. Just burn the iso, put the CD in a computer, switch it on and it automatically installs itself without any further interaction needed. It supports a bunch of different distributions like

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I posted an openQRM HowTo about "Building a virtualized web-farm with openQRM" at our new community wiki at : http://wiki.linuxfellaz.net/doku.php?id=openqrm:webfarmThis HowTo describes step-by-step how to setup a virtualized, scalable and flexible openQRM-environment for hosting customers web-server.It covers :- installation of the openQRM-server- creation of filesystem-images- fast-cloning of

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Please take a moment to nominate the openQRM Projectfor the Sourceforge.net 2007 community choice awards.Simply click the "nominate this project" logo on the openQRM-sourceforge website : http://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/check "Best Project for the Enterprise" and submit.many thanks for your vote, have a great day,Matt

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working on updating the Xen-plugin to include the latest Xen 3.1. and added a Xen-console accessible via the openQRM web-interface.;) Now you can watch your partitions starting within openQRM.Here some screenshots :enjoy,Matt

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Kris B. presentation about "Managing Virtual Machines with OpenQRM" given at the Virtualisation Conference hosted by NLUUG is now online. Please find more informations at : http://www.x-tend.be/~kb/blog/index.php?2007/05/10/375-nluug-presentation-about-openqrm-now-online The slides are available at : http://www.x-tend.be/~kb/presentations/NLUUG-openQRM.odp and abstract is at : http://

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First many thanks to all who joined the event "virtual data-center in Second Life" hosted by the openQRM research-Team within Second Life.The event took place on the monday, the 7.5.2007 at our Team-base located at Zeds Pitch in Second Life. Presenation and live-demonstration went fine and the full talk was captured by one of our helpful staff-member.Here the Video Stream(s) of the openQRM Second

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Here a snapshot of the presentation area for the upcoming event"openQRM virtual data-center" in Second Life next monday (07.05.2007)-> click here for more infosOn preparing the last bits and hoping to see you there on monday ;)

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Here a video of my virtual reality equipment i am using for Second Life.Wearing these gadgets makes Second Life feel like the Matrix version 0.1. It's fun, hope you enjoy it.btw: now on preparing for the "openQRM virtual data-centerdemonstration in Second Life" event in Second Life next monday(7. May, 04:00 p.m. GMT Zeds Pitch (24, 88, 42))For more infos please visit :http://sourceforge.net/forum

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Upgraded my main workstation last weekend with the latestMandriva Spring 2007 plus the awesome new Compiz-Desktopwith the famous "cube" effect for multiple, virtual Desktops.I really must say i love it ! (both, latest Mdk and Compiz)The upgrade procedure worked without any problems, havemy homedirs on a separated disk (backuped before) and justneeded to fresh install the base-system and plug-in

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My workmate and friend Kris Buytaert talks about"Managing Virtual Machines with OpenQRM"at the NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2007 in De Reehorst.:) Niiice !Please find Kris's announcement at : http://www.x-tend.be/~kb/blog/index.php?2007/03/04/330-nluug-najaarsconferentie-2007and some more infos about the event at : http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/ http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?

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:) happy that my openQRM presentation :"Managing any flavour of virtualization: openQRM in the enterprise data center"was accepted for the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany.The presentation will be held in english language and covers thevirtualization features in openQRM. It will give detailed informationsabout the openQRM-virtualization layer, the virtualization plugins(VMware, Xen, Qemu/KVM and

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openQRM:Worked on enhancing the build-farm for openQRM a bit more.Now the virtual machines are started automatically oneafter another and creating the packages without any manuallyinteracation needed.Also packaged and releaesed a new Linux-Vserver and Nagios-pluginfor openQRM 3.1.4. The updates and enhnacements on the Nagios-plugin are awesome. It now provides very nice graphs and chartvia

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openQRM:Got the new Xen-plugin 0.5 for openQRM 3.1.4 released.Tried to get some additional people for helping to test theopenQRM plugins through the sf-net "Help wanted" forum.Will see how this works out.private:Was out meeting some old friends last night.Really nice evening. Got some impressions from their newPS3 game-console .... it's fun but to be honest did notreally impressed me. Happy that

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openQRM:Finally found some time to update/port some of the older plugins(mostly from openQRM 2.x releases) to latest openQRM 3.1.4.Now we have 19 additional plugins available :)The plan is now to re-test them one by one and to prepare new releasepackages on the build-farm. Today the first candidate is the Xen-pluginwhich i already tested on openQRM 3.1.4.Also plan to host an Event in Second Life

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openQRM:Just finished developing, testing and packaging a new version of the lvm-mgmt plugin for openQRM. As suggested/requested by users it now also supports to manage remote storage-server. The plugin itslelf provides fast-cloning of filesystem-images either on NFS or Iscsi storage-servers using lvm snap-shots.New filesystem-images now can be created by cloning from existing (known-to-work)

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Working on updating and enhancing the lvm-mgmt plugin which provides cloning features for filesystem-images in openQRM (NFS + Iscsi).Progressed fine on this nice and sunny day but spend some hours to find out that lvm snap-shot + udev are not really good friends. It happens to me that it works "sometimes" and sometimes not.-> very unsatisfyingThen i found out that the reason for that behaviour is

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Google provides internet connection via toilet sewage systemFind more at : http://www.google.com/tisp/(you may have to be fast since i expect the link to be removed again soon).enjoy

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openQRM :Enjoying keeping up with some tasks on this weekend.Got a new openQRM Aoe-plugin version packaged and released yesterday. Next on the todo is to add support for remote storage-server in the lvm-mgmt plugin and to install a Debian testing-system to re-check and debug the cramfs issues with boot-images created from Debian kernels.A video demonstration about openQRM Provisiong was just made

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... oh, yes, i am blogging too now :)Decided to use a blog to keep track of my daily activities and other interesting (mostly computer related) stuff going on. Hope you enjoy the postings, stay tuned.Matt

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