Goddamnit, VMware server just gave me a few more tens of grey hair. It appears to be a hell of a job to get your Linux clients to keep time correctly… well, unless you know exactly what you need. So here it is, courtesy of 2 hours of googling and trying out + magic words from Ruben :

• Set your kernel timing to 100Hz
• Add the following to your kernelboot commandline: clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic

Done! Woot. etc. *sigh*

(topic title courtesy of Bernard ) 

[08|23:38:05] [-] [:] Jeeves_ [mark@213.154.229.12] has quit [Quit: "Etch is uit, als ik over 10 minuten niet terug ben is het stuk"]

That was 8-Apr-2007, 23:38. To date, Jeeves still has not returned. Oops. 😉

While we’re learning Ruby and Rails at Syntra, Diana is also still studying Web Developer and is studying PHP. Apart from "obvious" small examples she recently made (with just a little help from me) her first "real" partial application, being a calendar like the one you see on the right here 🙂 In one of the books or tutorials, something similar was made but with lots more code and as far as I could see a good part more CPU load. Good job, schatteke! 😉

I guess it’s not always as easy as it seems…

Debian Etch has been released!

I’ve been trying to find why the phone here in Switzerland didn’t work anymore with my asterisk PBX. After 5 minutes I noticed it wasn’t registering correctly, and it seemed to be due to an authentication failure (401 Not Authorized). Err, I didn’t change the phone config nor the asterisk config…. perhaps I upgraded asterisk some time ago, I don’t know (was there a security issue or something?) — in any case, after a LOT of tinkering, I changed the secrets to md5secrets and it all magically started working again. WTF.

It’s now called Pidgin . The reason behind the rename, is as you would expect, legal shite from AOL . It’s a surprise to me the developers had to seek legal support so many times, even ending up forming a "Instant Messaging Freedom Corporation" to take care of the legal issues…