Author Archives: Andi

Heads Up: Kernel update in Ubuntu 10.04LTS Lucid (>= 2.6.32-32) breaks network namespaces

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Andi

As much as I would like to avoid seeing this blog turn into an Ubuntu complaints forum, I have another heads-up to share: Network namespaces support was silently removed from Lucid in a minor kernel update this summer (2.6.32-31 – … Continue reading →

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What Ubuntu is doing wrong…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Andi

This discussion came up on our internal mailing list today. As this turned out too long, and I didn’t want to start a mailing list frame war, I decided to post it here instead. Feel free to comment below, or … Continue reading →

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Amazon shopping for Palm – they should click ‘buy now’

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Andi

Rumors are flying that Amazon is in talks with HP to buy their failed  WebOS section. I claim they should click “buy now”, because this may be seriously good news, for a lot of parties. For once, obviously for the … Continue reading →

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Filtering stderr – or how to get rid of tar’s “socket ignored” message

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Andi

This based on a very useful tip in Darren Patterson’s blog, something I was looking for for quite a while: When you want to filter out useless error from stderr messages, while keeping your stdout channel unaffected (e.g., to get … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.04 lucid requires 2.6.32 – breaks XenServer, Hardy, Lenny Xen Hosts

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Andi

If you’re thinking about running the recently released Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” as virtualized guest for a XEN machine hosted by Citrix’s XENServer, Ubuntu’s own Hardy 8.04LTS release, or Debian’s Lenny, don’t! As I found out the hard way … Continue reading →

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