Category: Personal Thoughts

  • Bongo-Project.org Needs To Be Renamed

    The Bongo-Project needs to be renamed Now before you fall of your chair or swallow your phone while reading this let me explain why. I have been wanting to create this post for sometime now and have been holding off as we are almost ready for our 1.0 release. The problem I have is that…

  • Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD

    Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part1 To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM’s with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database…

  • Standing up and being counted.

    I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out…

  • vMware workstation 6.5.3 on openSUSE 11.2

    I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post http://k—–k.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-vmware-workstation-653-on.html Which has…

  • Bongo rPath Images

    I have been trying to get the latest 0.6.1 release of Bongo onto the rPath images. This unfortunately has not been possible due to our reliance on a newer version of Python than what is available on the rPath system. This is a sad moment as I have been doing that for quite some time…

  • Images for Bongo 0.6.0

    I have been working on the images in the Suse Studio environment as I mentioned in my blog post  here. I started the investigations to find that our RPM repository was in need of a bit of work. I wanted to create a new repository in my own name that would allow me to build…

  • HTC Hero owner

    Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero. This has made me quite happy as I have been forced to run windows mobile on my old phone for far to long and it is refreshing that I have an…

  • Results of the OS poll

    You will be able to see from the poll archive that the following OS versions seem to be more popular Ubutnu 9.04 (53.0%, 19 Votes) Debian 5 (39.0%, 14 Votes) CENTOS 5 (28.0%, 10 Votes) openSuse 11.1 (22.0%, 8 Votes) Fedora 11 (19.0%, 7 Votes) I will now start to work on the packages for…

  • Reflection

    Reflection Originally uploaded by lhaig This was taken in the Sandringham Estate. I found this puddle and tried to focus on the tree and got this strange result.

  • Forrest Picture

    Forrest Picture Originally uploaded by lhaig Just trying different things out.