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Tag: Open source

  • Linux.conf.au – LCA2014 Perth visit (Part 1)

    Recently i started talking to an amazing bunch of people, who had proposed, and been accepted to host the next Linux.conf.au in Auckland, New Zealand. I immediately requested to help, and be a part since i really love this sort of thing, and i want to give back. Since the whole idea was still very…

  • Kiwi PyCon 2013 Summary

    For those who are unaware, Rimuhosting has sponsored a lot of conferences, particularly local ones including open source and tech related. We believe in giving back what you can to the community as much as possible . Peter, our wonderful boss, likes to encourage us to do the same, so often is happy to pay…

  • Auckland Pycon tickets

    As a sponsor of the New Zealand Pycon ( http://nz.pycon.org/), we are given a few free tickets for the event as well. We thought since we only have one staff member attending (Liz, who is speaking) that we should really not waste the other tickets we have. Since there are less females in the IT industry,…

  • Storage Clustering Part 2: GlusterFS

    GlusterFS is an interesting solution for providing redundant network attached storage clusters. Some features include… trivially easy for basic setups supports virtually any file-system no need to mess with kernels can work across commodity network hardware suitable for enterprise deployment has commercial support available GlusterFS can scale well also, its simple configuration based storage is…

  • Rimuhosting does LCA2010

    A couple of the die hard Linux fanatics here at Rimuhosting decided to bribe the boss into letting us go to Linux.conf.au this year, and in fact even managed to get him to become a little blue penguin sponsor. Luckily we have a fantastic employer[1] who was keen to get rid of us. We had…

  • Trying out the new Thunderbird 3

    One of my co-workers mentioned something about thunderbirds new features, i thought this is an excellent time to break my mail client! so promptly looked up installing the new thunderbird. My work box is Ubuntu, so here’s the easiest process to get Thunderbird 3 installed I used Ubuntuzilla to get the latest packages http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page echo…

  • PHP 5.2 on Centos upgrade

    Many of our customers request upgrading php to the latest stable version. Unfortunately CentOS does not have anything beyond 5.1.* in the official repository. We used to setup the remi repository as per http://rimuhosting.com/howto/php.jsp However, Remi moved on to the latest 5.3 branch. Unfortunately the 5.3 branch is not compatible with most php CMS/blogs out…

  • RimuHosting visit by Richard Stallman

    Free and open source software are so important at RimuHosting. Our servers would be pretty useless without the Linux kernel and free and open source applications we install on them. We try to do our bit for ‘software freedom’ like http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/09/24/rimuhosting-does-software-freedom-day/ providing OSS develeoper discounts and sponsoring events like LCA2010 http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/12/08/rimuhosting-at-linuconf-2010/ But our efforts are…

  • Be at Linux Conf in Wellington, or be square

    RimuHosting: Proudly supporting LCA2010 Linux Conf down under will be in Wellington from Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2010. This is right on our door-step (well an 8 hour drive down SH1 from Cambridge, at least).  So there will be a few Rimu-ites heading down.  And have signed up to be a sponsor…

  • Rimuhosting does Software Freedom Day

    Well I’m sure most geeks out there have heard of Software Freedom Day, it was the same day as Talk like a Pirate day!  I’m glad however that most people forgot ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ day however, since a good portion of the NZ Rimuhosting staff were helping out at the local SFD. John, Paul,…