Karl Katzke

Mm, alphabet soup.

I hadn’t looked into the cluster world since the last time we configured our cluster for SuSE 10.3 last year. Major groundswells, sinkholes, and shifts seem to have opened up … to the point where things aren’t even called the same anymore.

The big difference is that EVMS …

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After months of throwing books at one another and not talking despite sitting almost back to back, my co-sysadmin and I are starting the next buildout/migration of our Xen virtual cluster at work. One of the big decisions that we’re making is the OS. In the past, we’ve skipped every …

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This has worked on OpenSuse 10.3, Fedora 9, and all recent versions of Ubuntu…

Problem: Audio doesn’t work when the machine is docked in a Dell dock.
Solution: You need to enable the IEC958 Switch in your Volume Control application.

HowTo:

1. Click Computer, More Applications, and Voume Control
2. Click Edit, Preferences, and check

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• Less Accounting — along with my man-love of Freshbooks, Less Accounting is a more accounting-ish replacement for Quickbooks. Quickbooks sucks and you should not use it.
• I need to check out the Smart package management system for OpenSuSE… it’s a replacement for Zypper. Zypper’s come a long way

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There aren’t any binaries for MySQL Carrier Grade Edition, which includes the NDB Cluster engine, enabling highly available MySQL services. If you’re using OpenSUSE, you can get an older edition (MySQL 5.1.24) from the Build Service … or the most recent Carrier Grade Edition, 6.2 and 6.3, from the MySQL …

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This took me some time to figure out… here you go.

1. Add the Telephony network repository in YaST2. The URL is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/telephony/openSUSE_10.3/ …

2. There’s a bug in the deps for Asterisk with mISDNuser (the version in the repository is more recent, but is “uninstallable”) that will block the install process…

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