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Catalyst Book Review Out
Monday, February 25. 2008
Dave Cross has published a Catalyst Book Review that was written by Jonathan Rockway and published by Packt Publishing.
I have not read it so I can't really comment.
Thanks,
Gavin.
...I knew that Catalyst was something that I should take the time to learn, but it always seemed like such a daunting task.
For that reason, I was really looking forward to reading this book. I'm the kind of person who learns best from reading a book and I hoped that with a few tube rides reading this book, coupled with a few practical sessions in front of the computer, I'd soon have Catalyst. I'm sorry to report that having read the book, Catalyst is almost as confusing to me now as it was before.
I don't think that much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the author. Jonathan Rockway is a member of the core Catalyst development team. I've read his blog and his contributions to various mailing lists. He obviously knows his stuff. I think he's been badly let down by his editors.
I have not read it so I can't really comment.
Thanks,
Gavin.
Fedora Directory Server not good enough for Red Hat?
Sunday, February 17. 2008
It's been an interesting week to say the least. First we see some very good discussion in the Symas My Old Flame post, then we discover Fedora Directory Server is less stable/desirable as a back end for Red Hat.
Let's put this into context, first Red Hat attack OpenLDAP, but yet they won't eat their own dog food:
Red Hat do a lot of great things, but why don't they do what they preach and collaborate with a proper LDAP[?] Project and get real value out of that work and not waste time and money on a dead end project.
Suretec®
Let's put this into context, first Red Hat attack OpenLDAP, but yet they won't eat their own dog food:
We had been basing our application on fedora-ds, during the last year
we've seen great changes in this application and how its packaged. This has
made it less stable/desirable as a back end. All signs point to using
postgres on the back end as being both the easier choice and the more
reliable choice based on what we've seen.
Red Hat do a lot of great things, but why don't they do what they preach and collaborate with a proper LDAP[?] Project and get real value out of that work and not waste time and money on a dead end project.
Suretec®
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Wednesday, February 13. 2008
Release of amanda-2.6.0b2
Wednesday, February 13. 2008
Original Announcement
Things to note:
There's more at the above link, but that's a lot of work done since the last beta.
Well done to all the Amanda Team!
Things to note:
- 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
- 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
- New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
- New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
- glib is required to compile and run amanda.
- Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
There's more at the above link, but that's a lot of work done since the last beta.
Well done to all the Amanda Team!
Suretec presenting at British Computer Society Aberdeen Branch
Monday, February 4. 2008
UBUNTU LINUX for Server Networks in Science and Business - Flyer
Tony Travis will describe and demonstrate Ubuntu Linux as used in the EU NuGO Black Box (NBX) project, which he leads. This aims to provide an easy way to deploy a network of 'lab-scale' bioinformatics servers as web-based 'appliances' pre-loaded with useful tools. They can all be accessed either using a web browser or remote desktop login, or via SOAP-based web services. The NBX can be installed easily from CD, and uses FLOSS[?] (Free/Libre Open Source Software).
Gavin Henry is on the Executive Council of the Open Source Consortium representing Scotland. He is also part of the OpenLDAP Engineering Team and avid FLOSS contributor.
He will discuss real life Case Studies on the use of Open Source software for SMEs and other Enterprises, aiming to reassure new users.
Date : 13th February, 2008
Time : 18:00 for 18:30
Venue : RGU, St Andrews St
See you there!
Suretec®
Tony Travis will describe and demonstrate Ubuntu Linux as used in the EU NuGO Black Box (NBX) project, which he leads. This aims to provide an easy way to deploy a network of 'lab-scale' bioinformatics servers as web-based 'appliances' pre-loaded with useful tools. They can all be accessed either using a web browser or remote desktop login, or via SOAP-based web services. The NBX can be installed easily from CD, and uses FLOSS[?] (Free/Libre Open Source Software).
Gavin Henry is on the Executive Council of the Open Source Consortium representing Scotland. He is also part of the OpenLDAP Engineering Team and avid FLOSS contributor.
He will discuss real life Case Studies on the use of Open Source software for SMEs and other Enterprises, aiming to reassure new users.
Date : 13th February, 2008
Time : 18:00 for 18:30
Venue : RGU, St Andrews St
See you there!
Suretec®
Stephen Fry: "Deliver us from Microsoft"
Saturday, February 2. 2008
Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows:
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in The Guardian
“Deliver us from Microsoft” - The Guardian headline
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in The Guardian
“Deliver us from Microsoft” - The Guardian headline
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