[Open source software licenses] Talk @ Liége – Belgium –

Dear *,

Well, I am preparing a talk about “Open source software licenses” for the University of Liege – Belgium -.
Do not ask me it yet cause it is not finished. Normally, I should publish it in December 2011.

If your company or you are based in BeNeLux and are interested by this presentation, just let me know and I will try to arrange a Meeting for you.

BR
Frederic 😉

[Fedora] Congratulations Bert !

Well, all my congratulations Bert as well as all other Fedora Ambassadors — Bert Web page –
On the Fedora Project Front page. 😉

Have fun with Fedora. – Specially in Belgium (Picture taken @ FOSDEM’11) 😉 –

N.B. http://be.fedoracommunity.org/
BR
Frederic 😉

RHEL Fundamentals Presentation in Belgium– 14th June 2011 –

Dear *,
I am going to do this presentation to one our Belgian customer on the 14th of June 2011.
If your company or you are based in BeNeLux and are interested by this presentation, just let me know and I will try to arrange a Meeting for you.

BR
Frederic 😉

[Fedora] Change Password Banner

Dear *,

Last week, I had a technical question regarding the passwd command. The question was about how to insert a banner or warning message when a user want or have to change his password.

One of the solutions is to create a file /etc/motd_passwd_warning with your warning. Here “HELLO”.

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/motd_passwd_warning
HELLO

Then to change the /etc/pam.d/passwd in adding the following line :
password optional pam_echo.so file=/etc/motd_passwd_warning

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/passwd
#%PAM-1.0
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
password optional pam_echo.so file=/etc/motd_passwd_warning
password substack system-auth
-password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so use_authtok
password substack postlogin

And that is all.

Here is the result :

[root@localhost ~]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
HELLO
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully

Rem : Following a comment from Daniel Walsh – see below -, I changed a little bit this article from its original publication.
Thanks to Daniel for his feedback.

BR
Frederic 🙂

BR

Gnome3 Presentation in Brussels – Belgium

On Monday I am going to do a Gnome 3 Presentation for a client. Not idea Why yet ???
My opinion about Gnome 3 is it is a major and great evolution in the Open source Desktop Domain.
Congratulation to the Gnome Team ! Your work is simply awesome. +1
Thanks for that.

BR
Frederic 😉

[ Belgium Event ] Foire du Libre @ UCL – Louvain-La-Neuve – 6th April 2011

FYI ->
Where : Sciences Conference Room 02 of “Université Catholique de Louvain” (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve
When : Wednesday, the 6th of April 2011 from 12:00 to 19:00

URL : http://www.louvainlinux.be/foire-du-libre/

BR
Frederic 😉

My Halfway to full Spice features

Dear *,

Following the advice Daniel gave me on my previous post related to Spice, I decided to try spice on F-15. – https://fhornain.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/spice-my-first-spice-access-to-kvm-machine/ –

The problem was I did not want to use F-15 on my main and only one physical machine at home.
Quite normal cause F-15 is still in Alpha. 😉

So the exercise was not difficult to realize but I admit a little bit complex.

That is to say, I still used my F-14 as a Spice Server an launched a RHEL 6 KVM with the enabled Spice option – I know it could be better if I would have use F-15 but you know the reason why I did not use it -.

Then I opened a X ssh session to my F-15 KVM virtual machine where I launched a spice client in order to access my RHEL 6 KVM . – see pictures –

So, the result of that exercise is that I confirm spice is having full SPICE support across all levels of the stack on F-15.

Even if I ran an hybrid solution between F-14 and F-15, I noticed a really nice improvement in the video flow when I ran an ogg. file inside my launched RHEL 6 KVM with the enabled Spice option.

Rem : – I did not managed to make sound working but maybe I missed some options.
– I did not try with M$ Windows as well. Nonetheless, as soon as I will have few minutes, I will.

Let hope my explanation was clear.
Anyway and again congratulation to the KVM, Spice Team for that. 🙂
Thanks also to Daniel for his help.

Best Regards
Frederic 😉

Maybe my next talk at Loadays.org

Dear *, I am going to prepare a presentation and a demo about Linux Container – LXC – on Red Hat/Fedora for Loadays and other events.
Ok, I still have some little issues but I think the bigger part is done.

Let me know if that subject could be interesting for you.
Rem : I did not submitted that subject to the Loadays team yet.
Ref : http://www.loadays.org/

BR
Frederic 😉

[FOSDEM’11] Bye Bye !

Dear *,

This is the first time I had time to attend to talks. Most of them were really interesting ones.

I had also to opportunity to meet lot of old friends and have a quick chat.

Finally, let’s hope some of them appreciated the superbowl on sunday evening.

Thanks !

See you next year.

BR

Frederic 😉

LOAD 2011 Preparation

Dear *,

Following the great event we had one week ago in Antwerpen – Belgium -, I am going to work in order to have support from Red Hat BeNelux for the Linux Open Administration Days in April 2011.
Anyway, I will be there for one or two talk(s).

So if you are interested by a particular Infrastructure subject and you plan to be there then let me know…. 😉

BR
Frederic 😉