Windows Vista not accepting IP address from a Linux dhcpd
June 18th, 2008I had a problem with Windows Vista not accepting an IP address, being offered from a Linux DHCP server.
Apart from changing the already known registry entry (DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle), I had to add the following line to my dhcpd.conf
server-identifier 192.168.0.3;
Now my config looks like this:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
allow unknown-clients;
ddns-updates on;
ddns-domainname "olympus.home";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.3;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
server-identifier 192.168.0.3;
}
Restarting the dhcpd server, solved my problem.
I found the solution at http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-157188.html
Zikula is the new name for PostNuke
June 5th, 2008It's out there. We've been waiting for this a long time now, but finally the new name for Postnuke is known: Zikula.
Congratulations, guys!
The announcement tells us the new is derived from the Zulu language.
Read more in the official press release.
andLinux brings almost any linux application to windows
May 26th, 2008Linux is better than window$, there, I've said it. On some rare occassions, you still need to run windows and I've tried several options in the past: vmware, qemu, virtualbox... All of them had their backdraws. Most of them just being slow. The latest I've tested is andLinux, and I must say, this one has impressed me the most. You're able to run almost any linux application, directly in windows. You're still running a linux distro (ubuntu) in the background as a windows service and although you need to share your files between the host and the guest, you're actually running the linux application within the windows desktop. All the others I've tested ran those application on the guest desktop. Here is a screenshot, illustrating my point:

Finally I can use amarok on windows!
Another neat trick is that I now have a LAMP installation on my window$.
Here is the description from the site:
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is free and will remain so, but donations are greatly needed.
andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.
andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications without modification.
andLinux comes in 2 flavors: XFCE and KDE.
Ubuntu shutdown problem
May 3rd, 2008I had a liitle shutdown problem with my laptop which has ubuntu as OS.
If your ubuntu installation hangs on shutdown and you had NFS mounts, you'll probably solve it by following this guide: http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/03/10/ubuntu-shutdown-problem-cifs-related/
Some other linux blogs
May 3rd, 2008Here is a list of some interesting blogs on Linux
http://blog.linuxoss.com/
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
http://vertito.blogspot.com/