Proxmox running on ubuntu using virtualbox

October 18th, 2011

The environment used for this guide A 64-Bit Intel Core i5 Laptop, 8Gb Ram. Ubuntu 11.10 Maverick AMD64 (The “host”) VirtualBox Access from host running VirtualBox only (so useful for development/proof of concept) The proposed environment Proxmox “Public” Network: 172.241.0.0/25 Proxmox “Private” Network: 10.0.0.0/8 Host has access to its own LAN, separate to this on [...]

WordPress module to show Google spreadsheet data.

March 16th, 2011

Display google spreadsheet data in wordpress. Hi my name is Tord Johansson Munk and this is my first internship at Örestad Linux. One of my first task to do here was to write a WordPress widget plugin to display data from a Google spreadsheet document and this is how i made it. First things first: [...]

Linux software RAID in practice

November 19th, 2010

A while ago we noticed log messages on one of the servers that a hard drive was going bad. The logs showed errors reading certain sectors of one of the drives in a software RAID-1 volume. Here’s how we went about diagnosing the faulty drive and replaced it. Background The server has several Linux software [...]

Debiteringssystem för CUPS-server

March 2nd, 2010

Hej, jag heter är Christian och jag praktiserar här på Örestad Linux. Mina uppgifter utgörs för tillfället av att titta närmare på nätverksinfrastrukturen för hela Malmö Arena-kontorsförening – vilken vi tillhör – och pilla på olika lösningar för saker och ting som hör kontorslandskapet till. Vidare till vad dagens bloggpost handlar om: Jag fick under [...]

Testautomation för WebApplikationer – Selenium

November 16th, 2009

Skrivet av: Paul Arcombe, Certified ISTQB Foundation SoftwareTester, Örestad-Linux, Malmö INLEDNING. Detta utkast är starten på ett projekt inom Test Automatisering, där vi undersöker testverktyget Selenium och dess möjligheter inom webapplicerad testautomatisering. Selenium används i denna studie tillsammans med JAVA och JUnit i en Windows XP miljö. SAMMANFATTNING. Selenium är ett test verktyg som används [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 vs Windows 7 Energy consumption test

September 29th, 2009

“The Ubuntu computer uses 15% less energy” Background: There was some discussions in our office about the consumption of electricity by computers using different OSes. No real conclusion was given during the conversations and no evidence or tests were found, so my boss decided to run to the electronics store and purchase a couple of [...]

3 Line ISP connection using iproute2

August 21st, 2009

Hi, it’s Sami again, this time we will be setting up a 3 line ISP connection on our squid server. This is intended for static routing only. We are working on setting it up dynamically. As usual we will be using debian 5 (Lenny). Although this is not a fresh install! We are continuing our [...]

Transparent proxy running cache on ramdisk.

August 21st, 2009

Hi my name is Sami. This is my first blog post so it might not make sense at all to some. We wanted to run a transparent proxy for the SSWC event here in Sweden. What we ended up with was pretty nice actually. So, we started with installing squid and dhcp3-server on a new [...]