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Spacewalk 0.8 Released

Jay — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:49:16 +0000

Most of the details here taken from Jesus’ post.

Features & Enhancements

Support for packages with checksums other than MD5. Spacewalk server and proxy can serve and accept rpms with SHA256 digests, show the checksums in webUI and accept them in API calls.
Moved from mod_python to mod_wsgi on Fedora 11 and Fedora 12, which promises better performance.
Improved performance of SSM and API.

Known Issues

PostgreSQL support still does not work. We will need help with moving this forward.
Provider GPG key is not sometimes recognized and packages shows up as unknown Provider.
Documentation search does not work, other search are unaffected.
Cobbler 2.0 is known to work, but full tests haven’t been done yet.

Congrats to (my old stomping ground) the Spacewalk team on the release.

RHQ FOSDEM Presentation

Jay — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:05:39 +0000

Heiko, a coworker on the RHQ project, gave a talk at FOSDEM 2010 titled “System Management with RHQ and Jopr”. He posted his talk on you tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGTtERJ63xw

The talk covers an overview and demo of RHQ, as well as an emphasis on the new alert sender plugins functionality.

WPTouch

Jay — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:36:06 +0000

Credit to Jaap A. Haitsma’s WPTouch blog entry for first mentioning this plugin (at least, the first place I saw it, since it seems to be making rounds on other blogs as well). With the simple activation of this plugin, your blog gets automatic formatting on mobile devices. Once it was installed I took a quick peek on my iPhone and it looks awesome. Very cool stuff for such a simple installation.

Fedora Win

Jay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:28:04 +0000

I recently came into some new hardware, an Alienware M9700 laptop. The thing is a beast, both in processing power and sheer size. Disappointingly, Dell seems to have tainted Alienware, as what would normally ship as a clean, optimized installation is now cluttered with shit.

I have unavoidable needs for Windows on this box, so I decided to dual boot it. With as new as the hardware is, I figured XP would just be asking for trouble, so I decided to go with Windows 7. I figured with both the newness and hype of Windows 7, it actually contained drivers that were written this millennium.

When I first booted into Windows, I noticed the sound card wasn’t detected. It wasn’t hard to spot, as the system tray icon was huge due to the 800×600 resolution it was running in since the video card wasn’t detected either. Amazingly, the network cards were picked up, which didn’t really matter since Alienware doesn’t have Windows 7 64-bit drivers for… well, anything.

Seriously Dell, what did you do to that company? I used to have nothing but great things to say about them.

Dejected, I rebooted into my Fedora installation disk. A few minutes later, I was listening to music and trying to not go blind at the 1920×1200 resolution. Both of which worked fine out of box. And for the record, my video card is an NVidia GeForce Go.

This makes my head hurt. This laptop is for my wife, who is non-technical (that’s putting it mildly). If I were to sit here down to do the installation with both the Windows and Fedora installers, it’s pretty clear she’d end up with a much more usable system running Fedora. Apparently, when the people on the commercials were saying what they wanted in Windows 7, no one mentioned drivers.

Django “no such column” error

Jay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:46:33 +0000

I’ve been getting into Django recently. I’ll go into it more in another entry, but I ran into a small issue where my database seemed to get out of sync with my model. Running syncdb didn’t throw any errors, but when I tried to access the model from the server I’d get an error about “no such column”, even though I could see it created in the generated DDL.

It took me a bit of digging (in other words, it wasn’t in the tutorial), but there’s a manage command to reset the database for a particular app. Running that and re-syncing my database got me moving again.

python manage.py reset [appname]
python manage.py syncdb

RHQ Community Release 3.0.0.B02

Jay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:27:41 +0000

RHQ… now with 100% more awesome.

The release can be downloaded and full release notes found at the RHQ wiki.

Changes in this release include:

Repo Synchronization – The ability to schedule package synchronization for specific repos as well as cancel a running sync.
HTTP Content Access – The ability to browse content repositories and retrieve packages via HTTP.
Server-Side Plugin Dynamic Configuration Values – Added the ability to indicate the enumerated values for a configuration property of a server-side plugin be pulled from the database. For more information see Server Plugin Descriptor Configuration.
Raw Configuration Support – Significant enhancements made to raw configuration support.
Notification Templates – It is now possible to create bundles of pre-configured alert senders that can be applied to individual alert definitions.
Alert UI Revamp
Server Side Plugins Operations – Server-side plugins now support operations.

Move a panel between monitors in Gnome

Jay — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:18:16 +0000

I’ve used two monitors for years now on a kinda cheap card with one DVI and one VGA port. Naturally, I use the DVI one as the primary monitor, keeping the VGA as a supplement for extra space. However, my card detects the VGA as the “primary” monitor and puts my Gnome panels on that monitor. I learned to live with it, almost enjoying the fact that my primary workspace had no decorations at all.

However, I got curious and dug into it to find the setting to change this:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/monitor --type int 1

Alternatively, use gconf-editor to navigate to that location and change monitor from 0 to 1 from there. I didn’t even need to re-login, it just hopped across to the other monitor.

UPDATE: Ya, so apparently you can just alt + left click to move the panel between monitors. The interwebs is awesome, thanks to mbooth in the comments for that one.