August 14, 2010 – 12:27 pm
It’s been just over a month since my last presidents report, which according to past presidents means that I’m doing well. Apparently the first report is the easy one, maintaining momentum is the key! LCA2011 We are now well and truly into the run up to linux,conf.au 2011. The LCA Call for Papers, Miniconfs, Posters [...]
It has been about 6 months since the current Linux Australia Council was voted in, and about a month since I became President, following James Turnbull’s resignation. In that time, the Council has been working on implementing the platform that we ran on. We have successfully managed to hold a Council meeting every fortnight (with [...]
January 28, 2010 – 11:35 am
I was tidying up some data recently and found a couple of ISO images lying around with cryptic file names. I didn’t have cdinfo installed, so I though I’d run less hoping that the binary data would have some useful text in it. Instead I was surprised to see the following: CD-ROM is in ISO [...]
October 8, 2009 – 4:46 pm
The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second database holds the users, monitors and trackers. We do this by specifying two databases in config/database.yml. development: database: vqmetrics_devel < <: *login_dev_local vqdata_development: &VQDATA_TEST database: vqdata_devel <<: *login_dev_local So by default [...]
September 14, 2009 – 4:59 pm
One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only problem with PPAs is that they are public. I had a need to be able to host some private internal packages as well as squid with [...]
I would like to send out a big thank you to the Linux Australia Council. As I’m sure you all know yesterday was System Administrator Appreciation Day. The Council decided to send me a ThinkGeek gift certificate in appreciation for my work as an LA Admin. After hours of searching I finally decided on the [...]
