Tag: Personal Thoughts

  • Bongo Admin UI Images

    I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think.      

  • My interesting way to end a week.

    This is an account of Thursday the 29th of September 2011 when my cynical view on Londoners only thinking of themselves and not wanting to get involved with other peoples troubles was blown completely out of the water thanks to some really amazing people who I don’t have names for but would really love to…

  • Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part 2

    This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off

  • Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches

    I am busy working on a contract with a comonay that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have…

  • 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…

  • Great News About rPath Images

    I have great news about the images on the rPath system. I have been able to get Bongo 0.6.1 to build on the rPath system with a json patch from Alex. I have promoted it to the QA and RELEASE repo’s so it should be available for you guys. Please test and let me know…

  • 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…