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

Nice news coverage of the 4.0 release of openQRM

:) 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.com

Thanks a lot !!

It was so quiet here last months ...

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




Here some screenshots

Enjoy !!

openQRM 3.5 is available!

openQRM 3.5 has been released :)

Here some screenshots of the news spreading out :

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=809373



http://virtualization.com/guest-posts-guestposts/2008/04/09/qlusters-releases-openqrm-3.5/




http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2008/04/openqrm-35-relesed-control-your.html



http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/10/qlusters-waves-goodbye-to-openqrm/



http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/qlusters-dumps-open-source-ope.html

Hype about Virtualization reached next level

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 .....

Using openQRM to manage your Datacenter

... 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 :)