GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!” has turned 30 years. Thanks to Richard Stallman (RMS) for this wonderful initiative along with lot many volunteers . The best part is over 30 years the project has grown to new dimension. We are using it many times in our day to day life without …
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Open, (insert whatever here) when it comes to selling technology.
Off late everyone started loving the term OPEN & pushing/re-aligning/re-defining the product around it & it frustrates me. So whenever i hear some legacy hardware vendor or proprietary software vendor mentioning term OPEN i just feel like Mehh… The real definition of OPEN is Open Source Open Design Open Development Open Community …
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Please don`t build your community this way
I been seeing a new trend which is bad for any community. Just added few points here 1. Doing senseless Press Release out of anything. 2. Instead of your product talking SHIT about opponents/competitors product 3. Creating fake twitter accounts for bitching [This one got deleted thankfully] 4. Last but not the least by making …
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People(tech) would like to meet before i die
Linus Torvalds The man who wrote Linux kernel & maintains the overall project. He is also behind a distributed version control and source code management (SCM) system. I know many people hate him because of his response to devs in kernel mailing list. He has his own unique way of addressing issue. Eric S. Raymond ESR is wrote The Cathedral …
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Happy Birthday OpenStack #OpenStack3Bday
Current Mood (Excited) What an incredible journey this has been. We are celebrating 3rd birthday of OpenStack, the Open Source cloud computing software for building clouds. We have had awesome journey so far and will continue rocking. How it started? Rackspace + NASA = OpenStack Where are we now? [2] Rackspace …
vagrant and ubuntu
Vagrant was in my TODO for over one year, its good i finally played with it. I will explain what/how i installed it so whoever wants to play with it can easily deploy & use it. I tested in on ubuntu 10.04 (yeah my old box) but i would/will guarantee it will work on all …
Linux Namespaces, CentOS & OpenStack
Few weeks back me & my friend wanted to try out OpenStack on CentOS. We followed all steps but after 3 days of debugging we were still not able to figure out the issue. I am total newbie with the networking part of OpenStack, trying to catch up with it. After hitting head around forums, launchpad …
Things i like about Chennai
I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. Food Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa/idli/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken …
RabbitMQ webUI & Ubuntu
I heard about RabbitMq webUI from my friend Ritesh. I felt it will be helpful for anyone who wants to understand queue workflow playing with OpenStack. After reading found this for getting the same on Ubuntu 12.04. Installing RabbitMQ Server # apt-get install rabbitmq-server Checking list of installed plugin. # rabbitmq-plugins list [ ] amqp_client …
Thoughts on/about ITIL
Some of you might not know 3 weeks back i moved to solutions engineering team at my current workplace. One of the main assignment under my belt is to build a product line around emerging cloud technology. I know it sounds to cool isn’t it? I was suggested by my boss to attend ITIL foundation …