http://krul.nu Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:38:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Together with two good friends I've been working on launching a new company: Tilaa. Tilaa is the Finnish word for "space" and that's what we provide (well, actually "server-space"): We offer virtual private servers. We want to try to take the Dutch hosting market to the next level: Our platform ... http://krul.nu/2010/02/08/proudly-presenting-tilaa/ It's been a bit quiet on my blog for a while. Not that I don't have anything to talk about, I've actually been quite busy :) These are exciting times! Four weeks ago, our son was born! I proudly present: Thijmen! He's a very healthy boy. He sleeps very well (also ... http://krul.nu/2010/02/08/life-updates/ Just watch this one, it's hilarious! Hah :D http://krul.nu/2009/04/08/the-best-caller-ever/ Kemari is a virtual machine synchronization mechanism for Xen. It allows you to run a hot standby copy of a virtual machine on a different host. If the active host becomes unavailable for some reason, the standby host takes over without downtime. (Note that this is different from live migration, ... http://krul.nu/2009/03/13/project-kemari/ Today I've been playing with virt-manager/libvirt (a Redhat emerging technologies project) on the new upcoming Ubuntu release Intrepid Ibex (8.10) and.. well..  it just works! I'm using it with KVM, for which you need hardware virtualization support. It's quite easy to create a new virtual machine, just clicky-clicky in the GUI, ... http://krul.nu/2008/09/18/virt-manager-on-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex/ Matt Colyer and friends have been busy reverse engineering the USB protocol used by Apple to sync iPhone and iPod touch devices and is now working on iFuse, an impressive project that will provide native USB access to those devices in Linux without the need for jailbreaking! As the name ... http://krul.nu/2008/09/10/native-iphoneipod-touch-support-in-linux-there-is-hope-after-all/ This week VMware released updated versions of their Workstation and Player products. This fixes a long standing issue with USB support for the iPod touch and iPhone. I'm now finally able to sync my iPod touch from iTunes in a virtual machine! Just don't try to update your firmware from ... http://krul.nu/2008/03/20/ipod-touch-syncing/ I installed a reCaptcha plugin for Wordpress, which allows people to directly comment on my posts without having to register for an account first. Should be effective against spammers, who (despite the fact that they had to register for an account) were spamming my moderation queue. If you also happen to ... http://krul.nu/2008/03/14/weblog-maintenance/ I just discovered that OpenLDAP now supports multimaster replication! This means there finally is a serious enterprise-ready(?) and open alternative for the Netscape directory server family (on which both Fedora DS and Sun JES are based iirc). Without multimaster replication it is impossible to create a real redundant directory setup, ... http://krul.nu/2008/02/26/openldap-improvements/ Woohoo! The developers of the music program I work with (Renoise) have released a beta of a Linux build! That means I can finally make music in Linux and get rid of my dualboot Windows partition!Unfortunately I still need a Windows virtual machine to be able to manage my Nokia ... http://krul.nu/2008/01/20/today-is-the-day-i-got-rid-of-my-windows-partition/