http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog.php Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:59:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://trinityhome.org/Images/logo_banner_small.gif http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog.php http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=239 Yet another version of TRK 3.3, now at build 321. This is a release candidate for the final TRK 3.3. After that, work should start for TRK 4.0 and probably a long period of radio silenc New stuff in this version: -kernel 2.6.26. Hope this kernel is more stable on different hardware. I also eliminated a serious disk performance flaw: it seems that since some kernel around 2.6.23, the generic and slow IDE driver had become the default, resulting on really slow I/O performance on normally ...]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:54:48 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=239 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=238 For once, I wish I were a U.S. citizen. So I could at least give one vote for a better future. And that future lies NOT in the hands of John McCain To all U.S. Americans who read this post: please, please, please: GO AND VOTE OBAMA. With great unbelief I recently learned from polls that John McCain would have about as much votes as Obama. How is that possible? John McCain is an extension of George Bush. I thought/hoped that after 8 years of Dark Ages with the George Bush jr. administration ...]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:47:38 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=238 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=237 Good news for me: my search for a job has ended and guess what. I found the Linux job I 've been looking for all these years! As of the 1st of August I 'm starting for the company GFDI/CPC [1] as a Linux system engineer. It will be a very technical job, so finally a real challenge for me. Thanks to everyone that responded to my previous post! Harakiri Links: ------ [1] http://trinityhome.org/javascript:void(0);/*1216907575619*/ ]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:55:14 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=237 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=236 Since more than 2 years I 've been working as an external IT consultant for a company in the DIY industry. Budget problems and global company politics are now putting an end to this mission. The employer I work for is currently looking for another assignment, but as summer holidays are arriving this might become a challenging endeavour. Therefore, I 'm about to open all registers into finding the appropriate job opportunity. And where else better than on the website where my skills are ...]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:54:21 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=236 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=235 Last year, in an impulsive mood (I regularly have them), I bought myself a DVD/HDD recorder from the brand Stein. It costed me 219€, has a 250Gb harddrive, is able to record both to DVD as to harddrive and has analog 5.1 connectivity. Reason enough for me to buy it. ... I thought ... I connected it and I was surprised by the ease of installation: channel installation was very straight forward and easy to configure. It was only afterwards that it began to bother me ...]]> Tue, 27 May 2008 11:53:45 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=235 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=234 As of now, Trinity Rescue Kit has official commercial support. Trinity has agreed in a partnership with the consultancy company Open Computing [1] to give live and offline commercial support. For years, people have been asking me whether they could be helped by phone or online chat. Since I have my daytime job and already a lot of work as it is, I could not provide this. Well, now you can contact Open Computing who will help you with any Linux problem you might have. Also Windows is ...]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:08:14 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=234 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=233 For all the sysadmins dealing with remote users: ever got tired of not being able to remote control a workstation because it 's behind a firewall or a NAT-router (like most home connections)? Well, here 's the solution: Trinity Remote Support Pack for Windows is a set of commonly available and free utilities (UltraVNC and putty), glued together with some pretty simple scripts in a self extracting package that allow an administrator to connect to any PC with (almost) any type of Internet ...]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:07:25 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=233 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=232 .. a new version of Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3 (still beta) For all new visitors to this site: if you want to use TRK to reset winpass, it might not work with version 3.3 build 310. A newer version of winpass is ready and will be shipped with a new release of TRK 3.3. In the mean I recommend to try the stable TRK 3.2 first. It might not support your hardware, but if it does, use that one for password resets. Expected release date should be around the 3rd week of april 2008.]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:27:41 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=232 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=231 This release should fix the most hot problems reported on the forum: winpass and new Intel ethernet cards that weren 't supported. -The problem with winpass was with Vista. Microsoft OSes are these days "case aware", where Unix OSes are "case-sensitive". This means that when Microsoft decides to name the folder "C:Windowssystem32" all of a sudden to "C:WindowsSystem32" , they don 't get into trouble because they don 't care about upper- or lowercase, but Linux does. This meant that winpass ...]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:53:01 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=231 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=230 Finally, our little boy has arrived: meet Jeroom Kerremans, son of Ingrid Renders and Tom Kerremans. Already my best friend and such a good boy. Don 't have much time to make an elaborate post, must get back to the hospital :-) Date of birth: 17-12-2007, 10:00 Weight: 3,33kg, height: 51cm. Godfather: Steven Renders Godmother: Lieve Teugels]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:34:54 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=230 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=229 It 's lack of time, let 's blame it on that: TRK 3.3 build 304 contains a major bug in winpass just because I didn 't test it all the way through. I got that fixed in a new build 306 now, the first mirror has pulled it in (Garr), so please download that one now. Build 306 also got a few more pata drivers (the ones not marked experimental), so it should recognise a few more ide controllers on brand new machines. Let 's hope not too many new bugs come out of this one because any moment now ...]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:17:18 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=229 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=228 Major nifty feature addition in this release: boot other TRKs over the network from a running TRK! Yes indeed, after months of research, hard brainwork and lots of trial and error I finally got it to work: you can now boot a TRK from CD or USB stick and then boot other machines over PXE without any change to your network environment (no dhcp modifications, no resident tftp nor nfs server) How does it work? Well, the initial bootprinciple is similar to Microsoft RIS or Novell Zenworks ...]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:37:49 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=228 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=227 Trinityhome.org is now running on a new server with bigger bandwidth thanks to the kind people of Ipcoast. The current server is a virtual server on Xensource with about 5mb bandwidth. If you have any problems browsing the site, please post a comment. Harakiri and Headhunter.]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:21:13 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=227 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=226 Here 's another beta for you to test. Bootsplash, broken in build 300, is functional again thanks to a patch I found yet somewhere else. New in this version: -kernel 2.6.23.1, which as of this writing is the latest kernel available -ntfs-3g 1.1004, the newest version of ntfs-3g -hwdata 0.200: Fedora Core 7 HWData, which should help Kudzu find more recent hardware and load appropriate drivers -ethtool 5.1: latest ethtool to tweak your network card. People with problematic cards under ...]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:49:17 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=226 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=225 Previous year in march I had a terrible accident with my little dirtbike (pitbike). Due to a bad landing on the track I smacked hard to the dirt after a jump.]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:40:11 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=225 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=224 Not much has changed, but here 's a alternative beta to download for those having trouble with hardware support in build 299. It 's got the latest 2.6.22.9 kernel and hopefully it will solve the hardware support problems on some reported systems. What also is new is the support for IDE raid. I 've added the latest version of dmraid (1.00rc14). This kernel has no bootsplash support since I don 't find any up-to-date working patches for bootsplash anymore. The maintainer of the project ...]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:27:27 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=224 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=223 For all people wishing to contribute to or develop their own custom version of TRK: I 've released an SDK tarball which contains all the necessary binaries and scripts to build a new version of TRK. The tarball is what will bake you a TRK 3.3 build 299 iso. I 've come up with some breef documentation on how to get around in it. I expect people who are about to mess around are experienced Linux commandline users who are serious about bash scripting. Check out this page [1] and download your ...]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:03:49 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=223 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=222 Because of broken functionality with the F-prot part of virusscan and numerous incompatible new disk controlelrs, I am forced to release a beta version of the upcoming TRK. Version is now 3.3, build 299. The final version is supposed to be 4.0. You 'll be pleased to find out that this intermediate TRK has already lots of new functionality and bugfixes that were supposed to go in the final version. Here 's a sumup of what 's new since TRK 3.2 build 279: -added a fifth antivirus engine to ...]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:02:33 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=222 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=221 Maybe you 've been here before and you downloaded Trinity Rescue Kit or maybe you are about to. Trinity Rescue Kit is a completely free tool which can save you a lot of money and agony. It is downloaded about 10.000 times/month and donations don 't exactly match up to that amount of downloads. Now here 's a way to help Trinity Rescue Kit and it doesn 't cost you anything: you can vote for my colleague Philippe Hurtgen and me, Tom Kerremans by submitting your e-mail address on the ...]]> Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:10:05 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=221 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=220 Today I was quite amused when my cat got face-to-face with the Beegle of my mother in law. Each time the dog, Wibo, comes over, he can run freely in the garden. And so can Janneke, our cat. But as with most cats and dogs, they are not so fond of eachother, although they 're both very curious. So Janneke strolls on the roof of my shed, provoking the dog rolling over on the side. This goes on for quite some time when all of a sudden: bam, cat overboard! She falls off at about 1 feet next to ...]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:49:05 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=220