http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog.php Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:36:52 +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=1&blog_id=248 Around 30-31st of January 2010 this website was as good as down. Unfortunately this was not the first time. But the difference was that it came back on its own, so it gave me an opportunity to trace the cause of the problems. Apparently the server went out-of-memory because of too many smtp-connections (too much spam). I made some adjustments to prevent excessive memory usage, hopefully the problems are gone now.]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:36:04 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=248 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=247 A quick update on TRK's virusscan, the antivirus program wrapper in TRK. -Grisoft AVG is broken ever since they upgraded to a newer version. The usage has completely changed and virusscan is not adapted for it. In the next version of TRK, AVG will be thrown out because version 8.5 for Linux has no more cleaning capabilities. For now it has been marked as a "dead feature" and will refuse to work in TRK -Work is in progress for a new version of TRK and I'm adding Avast as a virusscanner. ...]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:27:18 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=247 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=246 Every now and then in human history an invention or discovery comes along that reshapes the foundation of our future. Now may be such a time. What if an energy source was to be invented that just takes water to generate power between 100 and 200 times greater than that of combustion from fossil fuel? What if that energy generation was completely environment friendly and the by-product resulted in a new and very useful matter? Well, that's exactly what Blacklight Power has done. Blacklight ...]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:33:24 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=246 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=245 Just a minor change but with big impact to network booting TRK users. As I stated before I was unable to test everything and as it turned out, network booting had some errors. So a kind user pointed out this bug + solution in the TRK forum [1]. I immediately made the changes and tested it this time. So now 3.3 build 334 is available for download instead of 333 Links: ------ [1] http://trinityhome.org/javascript:void(0);/*1246954702466*/ ]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:18:37 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=245 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=244 It's been a while again, but here 's another intermediate version of TRK. I don't have much time to work on it, so this is unfinished but usable. Main reason to release this is that people are asking me for newer driver support. So there's a pretty recent kernel 2.6.29.3 in it. But the biggest feature is the rpm support which allows you to install packages of your own. Below is a description of the new features -mclone version 1.1: this version of mclone supports network compression during transfer. This option adds more cpu load but saves on network bandwidth. Use only on powerful machines. This version of mclone is different from the old one so I changed the ports on which it connects so both can 't get mixed up. Version 1.0 is still available as /bin/mclone1.0 Oh yes: I used mclone at work between IBM Bladecenters hooked to fibrechannel SANs and transferred 25Gb of data in 5 minutes with an average of about 700mbit. The bladecenters booted fine afterwards, so there 's an option for a site move or disaster recovery. -newer kernel 2.6.29.3: although in the meantime kernel 2.6.30 is out, I have to freeze the TRK kernel somewhere. This TRK also uses a custom Qlogic driver for ql2xxx based cards since the stock driver behaved unreliably on my jobs IBM Bladecenters under heavy i/o. So a newer kernel should mean newer drivers. I always enable drivers that are out of the experimental phase. If your driver isn't loaded, it must mean he's either unavailable or still in experimental phase. -read/write support in all areas of TRK: TRK now uses aufs over squashfs which incorporates a cowloop (Copy On Write). In human terms it means that you can write to read-only media by actually making the writes in a temporary, writable location. Cramfs was replaced by squashfs because of numerous reasons. This also means better compression, so the TRK iso has become relatively smaller (119Mb, fits on 128Mb sticks again). -RPM support: since TRK is now completely writable, I squeezed in RPM support. This means you can install any binary 32-bit rpm. Beware that TRK's RPM database is emtpy, so dependencies will almost always fail. Installing an RPM thus requires the option --nodeps and YOU to test whether the program works. Please don't mail me about an RPM that might not work (except when some file is missing after running updatetrk). Post it on the forum and try to figure it out yourself, otherwise I'm too busy solving custom stuff. On the other hand, a donation might work wonders on that ;-). The only RPM I tested so far -but it's a big one- is the IBM Tivoli SM 5.5 backup client and that seems to work fine. -because of the above features, there are significant changes in the internals of TRK and not everything got thouroughly tested. Especially the bootscripts were heavily modified. CD booting and USB disk booting were tested and debugged, so this should be ok. Network booting was untested, so please report me any problems with that. -updatetrk: again, because of all of the above, updatetrk was modified so any changes made can be saved for later use. If you install an rpm, you need to run updatetrk. I've now added the option to skip all updates like antivirus and such. Run 'updatetrk -s all' to just write back whatever has changed without any online added features. It will also rebuild the big trkramfs file which holds most of TRK. -added screen and now all local consoles run under their own screen session. This allows you to remotely take over a local console over ssh by invoking f.i. screen -x tty1, which will duplicate the output to the local console as well as your ssh session. Handy for admins who need to cooperate with remote hands. -fixed broken grub by adding missing /usr/bin/cmp -added script, a utility that allows you to record all console commands and save it in a textfile. Please note that I haven 't got to work on the antivirus support in TRK, which is largely broken because the vendors changed their version and internals. This will be the next big thing todo.]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:41:39 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=244 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=243 Hello, I'm Sam Verstricht, born 3 days ago on 17 june 2009 at 11h05 AM. Tech. specs: Length: 49cm Weight: 3,130kg Mom: Karin Collier Dad: Bart verstricht (alias Headhunter) Our personal website: http://www.strikkies.be Meet you there! You may also sign our guestbook there :)]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:35:53 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=243 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=242 There are new versions for both BitDefender and F-prot and they point to a different download url now. I have adapted these URLs on my webserver. The new F-prot seems to work ok. The new Bitdefender has install problems because the install path has changed and tries to install itself to /usr (which is read-only on CD in TRK). Luckilly, the old Bitdefender is still available, just the download path has changed. So that one works too. If it hadn't, I had to release a new version of TRK and ...]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:49:47 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=242 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=241 No doubt millions of people will have the problem with the Grisoft Antivirus (AVG) that had a false positive on the windows user32.dll file. I had some PCs coming in too. Luckily not too many because ever since AVG 8 came out, I 've been replacing it with Avast. Nevertheless, some of my 'customers' still had an AVG and now had BSOD's. Here 's a way you can fix it with TRK. If you 're lucky, the computer you 're working on has lots of $Uninstall directories from patches and such where you ...]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:07:47 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=241 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=240 Thank you to all the American citizens who have voted for Barack Obama. He will have a hard time cleaning up the mess of the 8 year Republican debacle, but at least he gives hope to the world. My two cents to the people of the U.S.A.: give this man time, don 't expect things to change in 3 months. He 'll need at least his whole term of presidency and probably even more to fix what's broken. And even after that I 'd say: people, ALWAYS vote for the Democrats. If you think back to recent ...]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:14:15 +0100 http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=15&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=240 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