This is not new news, ORDB.org ceased to exist on December 18., 2006 What is new is that as of 25/03/2008 15:50 CET relays.ordb.org started returning 127.0.0.2 for every query – in effect causing mail servers still using ORDB.org to reject mails. Almost 16 months after the announcement of ORDB.org shutting down this has still caught many people by surprise and started a public outcry. To summarize those threads people are now blaming the ORDB....

Note: These instructions only applies to version 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. Version 6.0.4 now supports Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 out of the box (Updated instructions for 6.0.4 and Ubuntu Intrepid) Seems VMware has released a new version of Workstation; 6.0.3 I had hoped that this release had fixed the problems encountered with 6.0.2. This isn’t the case (By the way; this problem is not only with Ubuntu Hardy Herron but for for all distributions using Linux 2....

We’ve all seen the tin foil prank, the Post-It(tm) prank, the card board box prank This one has outdone them all That’s it. I’m not gonna post any more fun stuff today. Promise....

If you ever owned a cat you can definately relate to this I swear, except for the baseball bat, this is how every cat I ever owned has behaved (some more than other). The animation is “Simon’s Cat in ‘Cat Man Do'” by Simon Tofield...

This is so true :) Cartoon Church is not one of my regular web comics but they have some pretty hillarious stuff....

A new vmware-any-any patch is floating around the VMKernelNewbies group. It is unknown who has made the patch but I am very grateful. Not only has this person taken care of the tidious work if getting vmmon to compile but also fixed the problem with bridging on a wireless interface. I have a local copy of the file – just in case it disappears....

After trying my luck with VMware Server 2.0 Beta (which I’ve been running while I upgraded my laptop to Hardy). Finally getting tired of the bloated MUI I switched back to Server 1.0.4 and discovered that the server console not longer works: $ vmware-server-console /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo....

This is in no way hot news but I wanted to write it down anyway. I am currently working on upgrading some VMware ESX 2.5 servers to ESX 3.0.2. We have opted for a rolling upgrade by installing one of the servers with 3.0.2, adding a new LUN, format it with VMFS3 and then migrating servers of the old servers and LUNs and then reinstalling the server. The new VMFS was formated with standard options (but not by me)....