Another cool thing that’s new in Jaunty that I’ve never gotten around to bloggin about is the fact that the virt-viewer and gtk-vnc packages in Ubuntu now provide mozilla-virt-viewer and mozilla-gtk-vnc, respectively. This means you can now put something like <embed type=”application/x-gtk-vnc” width=”800″ height=”600″ host=”127.0.0.1″ port=”5900″> </embed> or this: <embed type=”application/x-virt-viewer” width=”800″ height=”600″ uri=”qemu:///system” name=”something”> [...]

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Eucalyptus in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope! From the package description: EUCALYPTUS is an open source service overlay that implements elastic computing using existing resources. The goal of EUCALYPTUS is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with [...]

The Ubuntu server team intends to offer a set of new software packages related to cloud computing in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), due to be released in April 2009. Most notably: OpenNebula Provides a very convenient abstraction of computational ressources (both local (in your on data center) and remote (on Amazon’s EC2, for instance)). Eucalyptus [...]

This has been bugging me for a looong time, but for some reason I only just now pulled myself together and did something about it: Back in Hardy, I changed Ubuntu’s version of virsh (the command line utility for libvirt) to connect to qemu:///system if you had access to that, and fall back to qemu:///session [...]

Every once in a while (not too often) I leave the house without my trusty laptop or maybe I’m just in a place with no wifi available to me. In such cases I sometimes need access to one of my servers or perhaps just my e-mail, but I’ve always felt uncomfortable entering my password on [...]

Launchpad can be a hassle to navigate at times, so I figured I’d share a little gem with you. Every once in a while, there’s a bug in an Ubuntu package. Yes, hard to believe, but it’s true. To figure out exactly when it broke it sometimes helps to be able to install previus versions [...]

I noticed that otp challenges get highlighted in gnome-terminal: After a bit of digging in the source, it turns out that if you hold down CTRL while clicking the challenge, a window comes up allowing you to enter your password. The resulting passphrase will be sent to the terminal. Nice…