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Following on from my post about building Debian virtual machines with libvirt, I’ve now got automated installations of Debian Lenny using the preseeding method. Coupling this with using virt-install, I can have a Debian virtual machine installation in only a few minutes. No questions asked.
The virt-install command contains an extra-args argument, where you can fill-in [...]

The aim of this was to use the standard CentOS/RHEL Xen Dom0 tools to boot a Debian Lenny DomU.
I found plenty of instructions for doing CentOS DomU under a Debian Dom0, but not the other way around. So, this is a little how-to documenting the little things that need to be overcome.
I also wanted the [...]

Some of the Big T grads went to Christian’s Dad’s place for lunch. It’s called Aroma Cafe, on Queen St. Very nice.

This is me doing a blowfish on the Innovation Centre machine room window

Haven’t blogged for a while, so he’s a quick update of what’s been going on.
At work late tonight, helping out because of a function. It was supposed to be finished at 9pm, but it’s now 10:15pm and they’re still here. Let’s bring on the tear gas and tasers
We started getting pissed off with [...]

I hung back at work to score a couple of beers and some nice finger food

Jeremy, Rob and Andy @ the IC
I’m also getting close to finishing my webcam server. You should be able to see me (in the store room) on the cam at batman.andybotting.com. Everybody’s favourite telco is hosting this box [...]

Earlier this week, we got a Segway at work. Here is an action shot:

Andy on the Segway
These things are amazing to ride. They have some incredible gyroscopic electronics which keep this thing upright… and they also go at about 20 km/h, which doesn’t sound like much, but feels very quick. It comes with three [...]

The guys at Canon kindly donated a couple of digital cameras to the centre. So here’s a pick of me and the guys I work with, amongst all the mess

Michael, Rob and Andy @ the Innovation Centre

I haven’t blogged in about three weeks, which is pretty slack. The major thing to happen within that time is that I have moved to another group at work. I’m now working at the Big-T Innovation Centre, down at Docklands. Coolest place i’ve ever worked
What this post is really about is GNOME 2.12. [...]