Category: Open Source

Virtualization with proxmox

August 18th, 2011
This year I got to work with virtualization for real for the first time. Hardware and purpose We have bought a Dell PE R710 with 2 Intel Xeon E5640 (4 HT cores each) and 64 GB RAM. It is to be used for a database server, a file server and some e… more »

Neatx is the new black 2

April 1st, 2011
Neatx on squeeze, the cheat sheet: Install dependencies: aptitude install python-pexpect python-simplejson autoconf automake python-docutils xauth netcat python-gtk2 python-gobject gcc x11-xserver-utils make xutils-dev xserver-xorg-dev xorg-dev… more »

Assp and postfix and saslauthd

November 9th, 2010
What I had: Assp proxy in front on host fw. Postfix on internal server called fs, assp talking to it on port 25 (listenPort:=25,smtpDestination:=10.10.1.1:25). Assp server serving as plain smtp from inside and as incoming mail server, using… more »

Bioinformatician / system administrator Job

June 4th, 2010
I'm looking for a new colleague. Here is my informal version: You are an evil BOFH. Unix/Linux guy (M/F), goes without saying. Or a Mad Scientist who laugh in the face of danger. Or someone who run 5 km in 20 minutes. Or a good coffee… more »

RAID monitoring on Sun servers

November 10th, 2009
Very brief blog post (but > 140 characters...) After buying Sun server and realizing that they are NOT using LSI RAID controllers and MegaCli will not work, do not despair. Yes it is Adaptec. Or a Sun-ified Adaptec called Storagetek, whatever.… more »