http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp Blog of Nicolas Van Wambeke Sun, 08 May 2011 08:06:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Avahi, Zeroconf, mDNS, Bonjour, whatever you want to call it, is great for dealing with service discovery on your LAN where all hosts are located in the same broadcast domain. Indeed, the zeroconf protocol relies heavily on multicast for advertising and discovering services. Sometimes, however, it is not possible to have ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2011/05/08/bonjourzeroconfrendezvousmdns-across-multiple-subnets/ This is a great video, I'd be more than happy to be the "francophone" that M. Janssens refers to as his marching buddy. http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2011/01/16/a-clear-view-of-the-question-why-doesnt-belgium-have-a-government-yet/ Xen virtualization can be a very effective method for large scale deployment of software agents in a virtualized network environment for testing applications' scalability. The first step you'd go if you were in the process of massively generating Xen domU would be to create a master virtual disk image and xen ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2010/08/22/sharing-a-same-disk-image-between-various-virtual-machines-using-aufs/ I've recently come accross an interesting problem while trying to use a cacti install running on a server located in Europe in order to monitor, generate and export statistics to be read by people in Central America. Indeed, the generated graphs indicated CET time while the people for whom the ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2010/04/06/changing-the-timezone-of-cacti-graphs-using-rrdtool/ The next ubuntu release, 10.04 is planned to be released on April 29th 2010. While the date is closing by rapidly, the development process is right on its track. With a first beta release mid-March which allowed to spot some nasty bugs of all kind, the community is now working towards ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2010/04/03/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-beta-2-on-april-8th/ Mark Shuttleworth made the announcement a few days ago already that the next Ubuntu version will be named Lucid Lynx. It's going to be an LTS which will superseed to the Hardy Heron and there will be a direct upgrade path from 8.04 as there always is between LTS releases. ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2009/09/24/ubuntu-1004-ll-for-lucid-lynx/ When doing stuff on the console, I often find it tremendously useful to have multiple terminals open. In the old days, I used to log in several times in tty1 through tty4. This way, I could have BitchX and later irssi in one terminal, have my SSH session running in ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2009/09/23/terminator-the-revolutionary-terminal/ I've recently come across this neath application on Facebook, it's called Cities I've Visited. Indeed; I've traveled quite a bit during the last few years for work and it would have been great to have something like that back then. Not only does the application allow you to pinpoint the ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2009/09/22/cities-i-ve-visited-application-on-facebook/ Traveling around the Toulouse region, in a path directed by hunger and satisfaction, I came across the most sincere door label I'd ever seen :) The sign is displayed on the door to a "boulangerie" (bakery) and obviously is a call for the hungry tourist to come in and enjoy the ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2009/06/14/french-people-generally-try-to-speak-englisch/ @Work, I've worked on several software projects. First, I was a plain programmer not caring for the "where are we now?" question but rater quickly, I was assigned managerial responsibilities and the only thing that I had on my mind was "where are we now!?". I've found the Trac project ... http://nicolas.vanwambeke.net/wp/2009/06/14/trac-a-great-project-management-tool/