Archive for January, 2010

samba.org joins Australian Internet Blackout

Monday, January 25th, 2010

This week many websites in Australia will be showing a “blackout” popup to protest the introduction of internet censorship in Australia. The Samba project, which has is roots in Australia, has joined in this protest on its website.

If you run a non-Australian site but you want to also show your support, then you might like to grab the hacked up popup code I used on samba.org.

For Australian sites, please use the official code. Hopefully something appropriate for non-au sites will be added there soon.

Cheers, Tridge

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Another brilliant LCA!

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The last week at LCA has been amazing. It was a heady combination of great technical talks, geek hackery, fantastic social events and fun discussions.

I think the key to LCA is the amazing volunteers who run it. The combination of moving the conference between cities each year along with enthusiastic volunteers from the FOSS community makes for an incredible conference year after year.

Thank you to everyone who made LCA 2010 in Wellington such a success. If you missed it, then make sure you don’t miss next years LCA in Brisbane. The highlight of every year for me is LCA, and I am so grateful that we have such a great community of FOSS hackers in Australia and New Zealand to make it possible.

Cheers, Tridge

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Samba4 DRS replication

Monday, January 11th, 2010

There has been a lot of progress recently in the development of the directory server capabilities of Samba4. I thought it would be worthwhile putting together a video that shows off some of those capabilities.

You can see the video here:

http://samba.org/tridge/DRS-demo/s4-DRS-demo.avi

(if you have a fast link and can play Ogg videos, there is a high quality version too)

The video shows a few things:

  • provisioning a Samba4 domain controller
  • joining a Windows 2008 R2 machine as an additional domain controller for the Samba domain
  • joining an additional Samba domain controller to the same domain
  • adding a user and seeing changes to the user propogate between the domain controllers

There is a lot more to do in Samba4, but we are making very rapid progress now. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this effort!

Cheers, Tridge

PS: If you’ve having trouble playing the videos on windows, you may want to install the x264 codec. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/files/ for a downloadable codec pack for windows media player.

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chocolate truffles!

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

After having some fun building a coffee roaster with automatic power control and a python UI, my wife asked if I could help her with chocolate tempering for making chocolate truffles.

The result is a new use for pyRoast, and some great “techno truffles” !

See http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1263085051 for all the details and a short movie.

Cheers, Tridge

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