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LXC 0.7 in Gentoo Linux – updated
LXC 0.7 is available as an upgrade in Gentoo Linux. After you get it you may have a surprise… no console output after lxc-start. It seems it is not a bug but a feature :) (as always with software). To get back the output just add -s lxc.console=$(tty) to the command line, like: # lxc-start [...]
Tags: gentoo linux container lxc tip
Posted in: Linux
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June 25, 2010
Marius Staicu
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5 Comments
LXC with Gentoo Linux
VMWare (Server, Player, ESX), VirtualBox, KVM/QEMU are just a few of the virtualization technologies you can use if you need to run a generic virtual machine. Each has strong and weak points, each adds some overhead when running the virtual machine, each can prove useful in a given scenario. I’ve used more or less extensively [...]
Tags: containers gentoo Linux lxc virtualization
Posted in: Linux
| June 3, 2010
Marius Staicu
| 8 Comments
SSH TCP Port Forwarding aka poor man's VPN
In today’s world when the IPv4 addresses are a luxury and IPv6 is not wide deployed (yet) more and more servers are running behind NAT-ed addresses. To do remote management on these servers you connect to them using SSH through some port forwarding done on the border gateway. If you need to monitor these servers [...]
Tags: Linux nagios port forwarding PostgreSQL ssh tcp vpn
Posted in: Linux, System Adminstration
| April 15, 2010
Marius Staicu
| 16 Comments
"Father of Java" leaves Oracle
James Gosling, the creator of the original design of Java has resigned from Oracle a week ago. The news is anounced only now on his blog and confirmed by other sites (where you can find more details):
Tags: james gosling Java Oracle
Posted in: Java, News
| April 10, 2010
Marius Staicu
| No Comments
How to install WSO2 WSF/PHP on SUSE Linux
If you need to install the WSF/PHP extension on a SUSE Linux with GCC 4.1.2 (pretty old) and receive some strange errors with missing libraries (even if you think / see they are there and even if you followed a la lettre the documentation) you may try the following approach:
Tags: Linux open suse PHP WSF WSO2
Posted in: Linux
| June 30, 2009
Marius Staicu
| No Comments
Yahoo Messenger login troubles
If you are unable to use the YM client with the new gateway configuration (through proxy) it is very likely you have the issue (and solution) described here.
Tags: gateway issue messenger yahoo
Posted in: Windows
| July 30, 2007
Marius Staicu
| No Comments
Linux and gaming
A new article on micahville blog presents a list of 17 games who do not need WINE, can be open or closed source, and of course, run on Linux. The games are (in no particular order):
Tags: games Linux open source
Posted in: Linux
| July 28, 2007
Marius Staicu
| No Comments
Teambuilding from July 2007
Last Tuesday we had a new team building (first this year, at least for me). After a hot start (from the city concrete) we arrived at Curmatura, near Rasinari. Plenty of green (as you can see in the pictures), a small river, not so hot (only late afternoon the temperature was nicer – some would [...]
Tags: camping fun Ropardo Team
Posted in: Ropardo Team
| July 19, 2007
Marius Staicu
| One Comment
NTFS partition resize with free tools
Last week I need a new partition on my external drive. The HDD has 80Gb split in 2 partitions, one of 20Gb and one of around 56Gb. The first partition was nearly full and the second had 30Gb of free space (but with many fragmented files). The obvious solution is to move the 26Gb from [...]
Tags: freeware hdd partitions tools
Posted in: Linux
| June 26, 2007
Marius Staicu
| No Comments
