Am I a kernel hacker or what?

From: akpm@osdl.org To: j.dreyer@butonic.de, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: + nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:39:07 -0800 (22:39 CET) The patch titled nfsroot: do not silently stop parsing on an unknown option has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option.patch From: „Jorn Dreyer“ It would be helpful if the kernel …

Signing off to the weekend

The last two weeks I did not post an update on the status of my work, as the computer pool has to be ready for student impact in about a week. I was planning to replicate the student passwords from our gforge server into a Samba PDC, as well as into Linux passwd files, phpbb …

Little things to remember

Up to six domains that should be appended to hostnames when resolving them can be defined in /etc/resolv.conf with the search entry (though not more than 255 characters). To bind a xen domain to another interface than the default (bridge), the /etc/xen/scripts/network script must be altered by hand. There is no configuration option for it, …

Finishing a test with a nice barbecue in the buga

Today I had a test in discrete structures (lots of math … graphs, recursion, induction) which I asumed to be the hardest I had to take this semester. So after finishing the four pages of handwritten notes we were allowed to take with us (no calculator, no nothing but the pages) and having lunch I …

Annoying bugs are …

those which take you four hours to find them and 1 minute to fix them (remembering this post). Today I was searching the web for information on how to configure a simple boot menu with PXELinux. Our setup was woking nice when we had only one entry for the diskless Gentoo installation in the config …

Where is the admin interface for Open-Xchange?

SLOX had an administration interface for OX, however the open source version is lacking one. The /umin servlet only allows to change the personal settings and searching through the official forums I only found ATFrogs. Unfortunately it does not have support for adding / editing users … o_O hmm seems like there is no good …

Getting things done …

Xen domains working Yesterday, I managed to move our GForge server into the DMZ as a Xen domain. The CoObRA Repositories are also hosted in a Xen domain, although they might consume way more RAM than the currently assigned 256 MB … I have to admit that the firewall of the university is still blocking …