Blogs

18 Jan

Katello Project MGT Systems Software

"Similarly the Katello project will be an upstream component of the CloudForms product. We first announced the Katello project and the future of Satellite at the 2011 Red Hat Summit."

http://katello.org
http://katello.org/faq.html

https://fedorahosted.org/katello

http://www.redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/whats_next/thursd...

14 Jan

Resize photos with Ubuntu Linux package nautilus-image-converter

Test box:
Ubuntu Linux Gnome.

Install:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter

Photo:
Select the photo and place it in a new folder. Right-click on the photo --- scroll down to option "Resize Images" and select 800x600.

14 Jan

3 steps to building your own Subsonic Media Streaming Server Linux Mac Wins

Steaming Server Software http://www.subsonic.org

You can install on Linux, Mac or Windows. You can select the package or the standalone package.

Instructions: http://www.subsonic.org/pages/installation.jsp

Our test box:
Centos server -->| java-1.6.0-openjdk | subsonic4.6.rpm | open firewall on centos | Login on port 4040 | set router port-forwarding for streaming outside your network|

Upload Media: SSH to your box to upload your media files to the server.

Mobile App: To stream to your device. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/apps.jsp

14 Nov

Installing Fedora 16. Video demo on virtualbox.

Video demo of setting up Fedora 16.

18 Oct

Open source web conferencing Big Blue Button

This is an open source version of web conferencing, similar to Webex. They have a vmware image of this at http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/BigBlueButtonVM

http://bigbluebutton.org

18 Oct

LAMP w/app turn-key in 5 min

These turn-key LAMP stacks come in a variety of applications. Download the vmware image and run it. Once you learn the application flow, you might want to build it from on a fresh LAMP VM image, or customize your own version. If you want to move to production, pay Bitnami a monthly fee and run their customs builds in Amazon ec2.

http://bitnami.org/stacks

11 Jun

Eclipse/IDE presentation

in Development, Eclipse, IDE

This is the presentation used for the meeting June 11th 2011.

19 Nov

A Different Kind of Job Fair

If you’ve seen one job fair in this area, you’ve seen them all. Rooms full of tables with flyers and smiling people in suits or matching polo shirts standing around them, hundreds or thousands of people showing up handing out resumes like it’s Halloween for HR, getting business cards in return.

After a while you start to see the same people handing out the same resume or trying to recruit for the same jobs. There’s got to be another way...