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The week in review

Ever since the experiments with the Xen virtual server (which run beautifully, thanks for asking) lot’s has happend: It’s been - oh - almost 20 years since I sat in tests for 2 times 3 hours straight. That’s what I did last friday, as part of my education to become an “Organisator”. The tests went well (the proof will be the results that I get next month) and I’m happy to have that behind me. I’ve been to Opera with my wife. “La Traviata” is a rather simple story, but beautiful music and a wonderful performance at the Opernhaus Zurich. What is the best way to migrate away from a Lotus Notes application, when you need to keep some 5500 old data items? No, not importing everything into Remedy. Not building a “read-only” Ruby On Rails application. Keep the Notes Server, keep the data, let the users keep the “old way” of accessing data. Seems like a no brainer, but needed a pre-study with cost/benefit analysis. Organizing a new training class next week for a new customer. Im going to do a 3 days introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails class for 6 programmers. Unfortunately, Rails 1.1 was released today, so I need to update my documentation. The forgotten features of Rails 1.1 is a list of the small but important changes that also will help you I booked both flight and conference today: Reboot 8.0 I’m coming. (And I’m looking forward to that immensely). Henriette can I crash you? Reboot7 last year seemed to me to be a turning point in my life. I am sure, that Reboot8 will have a similar impact on the way I look at life. Technorati Tags: ausbildung, conference, crash, organisator, reboot, reboot8, sgo, xen ...

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Configuring X and Domino Server on Debian Sarge XEN

More in my tale of the xen-server. My goal is to run Lotus Domino on this box, and the last installment saw the server coming up, waiting to be configured. Well, it turns out, that IBM presumes that you have X installed on your servers, because it wants to setup the server using a Java frontend. So, the first task is to setup X on the virtualized Host. Giving your Xen instances a working X setup takes care of that nicely. I found Chicken of the VNC to be a really nice VNC client for the Mac. Then I had some problems getting the Notes server to start, but (in turn) that’s what helped me: ...

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Installing Lotus Domino 6.5.4 in Debian XEN

Get the 6.5.4 TAR file from notes.net and copy it to your Debian server. Here’s my /etc/xen/notes.cfg: kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU" memory = 384 name = "notes" root = "/dev/sda1 ro" vif = ['mac=00:00:00:00:00:01, bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/data.img,sda1,w', 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/swap.img,sda2,w' ] To distinguish in which environment to type the following commands: host # means the “physical” host machine while notes # means that you are in a shell in the virtual domain. ...

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