Zend Optimizer in BlueOnyx

Solarspeed.net has released an optional update for BlueOnyx. Now we can run Zend Optimizer for php with a simple yum command:

• # yum install php-zend-optimizer.i386

More information in the mailing list.

*.tar.gz?

Do you need to pack a big folder? While trying compilations and diverse patch files my last project (new cobalt kernel) I needed to pack the source folder a lot of times. I use tar and gzip commands to do that but using separately. I can recommend this super-easy guide to pack in one command.

It's very easy: $ tar czvf myfolder.tar.gz abcfolder/

I don't know why but my memory always forget the options of a command, this is the reason of this post.

Finally I have a new kernel for my Strongbolt servers

After a lot of time working on it, I have a new kernel for my SB RaQ's. For now I only have compiled the SB1 Gen III version but it's running very good in my develop box. You can check the picture. It the latest Centos 4 kernel 2.6.9-89.0.18.EL.

I have a warning message while booting, that says: unable to initializetable 'filter' I have to double check but seems with not a lot of importance. Now I go to compile Gen V version and SB2 versions.

Stay tunned!

Update 30-12-2009: Everything is working now, just to actiuvate some more options in menuconfig before compile.

Finally: Qube 2 NAS!!!!!

Tonight I managed to get running Samba passwords. After all it was no so difficult: I just needed to read the Samba documentation to find that I have to set my own password. I have 'Unix password Sync' parameter but I also neded to set password with smbpasswd from a SSH terminal session.
When I typed # smbpasswd from the command line, it asked for new password. After set it I was able to log from Windows Vista a save files. I'll test the write speed of the Qube 2 but I think it will be enough good to use it as a NAS. well, I need a bigger hard disk but this is the easy job!!!!

Confirmed: No more black screens.

In this post I was speaking about my problems of black screens in my SGI 1600SW TFT monitor with a nVidia Quadro NVS 285 graphics card. I did small test with a new Quadro FX 570 and seemed good but I didn't have enough time to do extensive tests. Now, with more than one week running in this configuration I can say that: The problem has gone!!! No problems in more than a week and a speed performance increased more than I was thinking!!!

You can see the differences between both cards:

SATA in a Cobalt Qube 2?

I have a SIL SATA card what I was bought to use with my main server with Strongbolt 2 but the idea was to boot from it and... this is not possible. This week I was playing with my RaQ's and I decided to test this card with the Qube 2. I know the Qube 2 ROM can't detect it or boot from it (normal) but I was thinking that maybe the Debian kernel can do.

This is the Qube 2 with the Silicon Image SATA card and a Seagate 7200.10 160 GB attached:


The kernel detected the card and the hard disk as you can see here:

Now it's time to learn how Debian works and mount the disk. Maybe tomorrow...

Cobalt RaQ: Main partition almost full!!

I'm preparing a RaQ 4r with the original Cobalt OS with all the updates (including Zeffie's ones). Everything worked good except the update called Security-Update-4.4.8. The web installer returned "4015 Problem verifying package component". A manual installation said the same...

Then I unpacked all the rpms and tried to check using the same command than the installer script but without redirecting the console outut to /dev/null. The log shown what I have space problems in the main partition: 178 MB were not enough!!!

The solution is easy to understand: I have to clean as much as posible but What Can I trash?. /tmp and the logs were not so much... Finally the solution was to move something to the big /home partition and make a sym link. After a fast search, only the /usr/doc folder is easy to move without problems:

[root] # mkdir /home/usr/
[root] # mv /usr/doc /home/usr/doc
[root] # ln -s /home/usr/doc /usr/doc

Now to follow with the updates...