A Conservative Techie

This is my first trip to a Ubuntu Development Summit. I am one of the thankful and greatfull that have been sponsored by Cannonical to come and take a part in this great event. I was totally unprepared as to what would happen and how it would work. But the introductory session by Mark, Jono, and Matt helped gets all ready to rock and roll.

Ubuntu defines its next release round in part through these developer summits. Blueprints are created and submitted via Launchpad and people subscribe to the specs they are interested in. Once you subscribe and either mark yourself as essential (the meeting can’t happen without you) or just a participant the scheduler goes to work trying to fit everyone into the correct time slot to discuss the information. As a member of the Ubuntu Documentation Project and not a developer I went with a very open mind and also a very open schedule. I have been attending a lot of very interesting session in regards to various topics and have learned a lot.

Day 1 involved the getting started talk, a Desktop Roundtable session (actually the table was square, but does it matter), a discussion on the theme of the next release, streamlining processes for development, and finally dial-up support.

Day 2 involved a Server Roundtable, Discussion on a Firewall, Kubuntu and Hardy, Launchpad Usuablity Testing, and a discussion on the logout dialog.

Looking forward to tomorrow and what iwill learn from that….

Seriously??? One of the most beloved characters of the Harry Potter series is no gay? Why at this point in the ballgame would we bring something up like this? Does JK think that now that the books are all sold and she’s made a ton of money, she can go back and change things?

Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.
After reading briefly from the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” she took questions from audience members.
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds “true love.”
“Dumbledore is gay,” the author responded to gasps and applause.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” Rowling said of Dumbledore’s feelings, adding that Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down.”

To me this seems nothing more then pure political correctness. Why should this be in the book at all? I’ve had a hard enough time dealing with my love of the series amongst some of my Christian friends, now i have to deal with this as well?

Just finished teaching the Advanced Notification Server Core Workshop that is offered by Altiris.  If you are looking to improve your Altiris knoweldge of the notification server, this is a great course to take.  And not just because I teach it.   In fact this was the first time that I taught the class so I was a little worried about it, but the class went great.

For those still following, the class assume knowledge of the notification server and how Altiris works, this is not a course for those that are brand new to Altiris.

The course covers the following:

• IIS and IIS troubleshooting in relationship to Altiris
• .NET 1.1 Framework Overview and how Altiris utilizes the .NET Framework
• Dataflow of the Notification Server and how the Altiris Agent communicates with it
• Package Servers (Currently the Notification Server Foundations class covers about 2 pages of Package Servers)
• Task Server
• Troubleshooting Tools (NS Configurator, Profiler, Perfmon and other common support calls)

Anyways drop me a note if you are intersetd in taking the class, its a great class

Altiris runs the agent and works w/ SuSE so I downloaded OpenSuSE 10.3 and installed SSH.  Altiris conects via ssh to install the application in a push install.  However you need to have ssh installed and running correctly.

SO I installed ssh, both the client and the server through Yast and figured that was it.  I can ssh locally to the box, however from either any of my VMs or my host I cannot ssh to it.  I can ping to the box, just can’t ssh to the box.  And nothing on #suse or googling can help me out.  i have disabled the firewall  as well and still can’t access it.

Please help

Using this post as a holder for a great article on using PXE and Ubuntu to install Ubuntu via network boot.

Great Post and Thanks

I have spent sometime working with the Altiris NS Agent and getting everything to work successfully with Ubuntu. However I have run into a problem… In order to get the Agent to run successfully, I need to modify the rc.d script to get it to work. The problem is that if you look at the rc.d script it states it is properiatry and can’t be modified. So I have some contacts into Altiris to see what we can do, if I can publish how to change it, etc.
Hopefully at Manage Fusion, I can get a chance to talk with developers…. Are you going to Manage Fusion? Let me know and we will try to meet.

While you all wait for further updates, feel free to check out this write up on using Ubuntu and the DS Agent.

I have been approved for a sponsorship to go to UDS and have been working w/ Cannonical to get my flight booked and everything figured out. I have finalized my flight and am ready to go. I arrive late Sunday night and leave Friday afternoon. Looking forward to coming.

See you there