At our new company we have a dedicated MySQL database machine and we use OTRS for ticketing. The thing is when you use the packages provided by otrs, you end up installing mysql-server on the otrs-machine. And that's just what I didn't want to d ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Let's say you have already run some kvm virtual machines, and you just upgraded your virt-manager to a version that supports Qemu/kvm. Wouldn't it be nice that those machines could be monitored by your virt-manager? Of course it is,so here's how t ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 06/06/2008 - 23:01 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

On the openfire-forum and on a lot of others is this the subject of many threads, however it almost works out of the box. I'm running 3 domains which all like jabber support. Lazy as I am, I just want to maintain one jabber-server instance. All ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:41 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

All admins of advanced Apache setups will cross this problem someday. So did I :) You have some nice reverse proxy setup, everything working just fine, except that one redirect that happens on one of the backend machines to a non default port. You ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

This is how you can get the O2Micro smart card reader that is used on Dell D820 and my Old Acer Travelmate 6003. This reader is for sure used at allot of other machines, but those are listed here I've tested myself. You can get the tar package her ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Sometimes you want to log everything what happens in your terminal. If you use konsole or gnome-terminal, you can change history or scroll settings, but you don't have output to a file. There are a few simple tools for just doing that, but alway ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 06/06/2008 - 23:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

These days we all like an online identity. In Belgium you could use the eID for authentication, but I prefer OpenID since I can control it completely. After trying a few OpenID servers, I came along phpMyID. It is the best so far, so I will stick to ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Uncategorized) ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Indeed, this is my first blog post on my first blog ever. In future you'll find all kinda stuff about things that keeps me busy. This is it for now. :) Cheers, Raf (Uncategorized) ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Since I always have my thunderbird running and I really love a clean desktop, I want my thunderbird accessible in tray. You have different tools for doing this, but there aren't to many that work on my linux box. I found a few solutions. After t ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments