Today, while I was browsing the web I encountered this piece of math: a = b a + a = a + b 2a = a + b 2a – 2b = a + b – 2b 2(a – b) = a + b – 2b 2(a – b) = a – b 2 = 1 On first sight you [...]
This was the opening of Devopsdays 2009. Quite a funny clip isn’t it? But what is a devop actually? Kris Buytaert is an expert on the subject, and I found a nice presentation of him explaining the concept: Devops Devops Devops View more presentations from Kris Buytaert. DevOps is not about operators or developers, it is about how to get [...]
Yesterday we had our second Fedora release party. This time the event was held in Ghent, at our beloved hackerspace . I arrived around 5.30pm, almost together with Vincent. He started out with placing the PXE boot server, and I went out hanging Fedora banners around the place, so people would find the venue in the labyrinth. We expected some [...]
With the release of Fedora 13 on may 26, we will be holding a small release party again. You are all invited at our Hackerspace in Ghent, Belgium. There will be pizza!
Yesterday I went to the Ubuntu Developer Summit M, because it was held in Belgium, and I was interested in how uds worked (I picked some ideas up for our own Fudcon ) . That morning Toshaan picked me up at Gent-Sint-Pieters. We arrived around 9am at the Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort, Brussels, Belgium. The day started off [...]
so, what started as an event for the local – Belgian – Linux sys admins ended up as a -small- event with some top notch international speakers and visitors from all over Europe. I met some people from Austria, UK, France, Germany, … . Thanks to Robert Keersse we had a great location – Don Bosco Werken en Leren – [...]
Yes, tomorrow is the first day of a new Linux event geared towards system administrators. As most of you probably already know, the name of this event is: Linux Open Administration Days , or load. I think load has a good schedule, and everybody will be able to find a talk or tutorial that fits his or her interests. But [...]
Some may already know, but the load schedule is online, and we have a pretty loaded schedule! It promises to be a great weekend for the linux system administrator, with talks from people like Kris Buytaert, Thomas Herve, Jeroen van Meeuwen (European rhce of the year 2008) and many more! We also have some nice tutorials scheduled, and there will [...]
Two weekends ago, I went to clt. Man, what a great event was that! On Friday, around 9am, I took the car, and drove to Chemnitz. After picking up Yaakov and Gregory in Eindhoven, and Christoph in Dortmund we arrived at the hotel around 7pm. While driving trough Germany, I was astonished by the scenic landscape, and I found out [...]
hi sys admins! We changed the deadline for the call for papers. You have now one week extra to think about a talk you want to give during LOAD . We want to see your papers before march 23. hope to see you there!

