Continue reading »]]> With MCollective version 2.0 we have now support to control Windows Servers. The only thing you must take care is that you need to update all your infrastructure to mco 2.0 because you cannot control servers that have a different version installed.

This allow us to complete the support of our KermIT project, that is actually (we have many enhancements in development ) a web interface to control mcollective infrastructure adding windows support. The “problem” was that no windows package was available during our tests and, knowing that usual production environment servers could not have access to internet, this could cause installation problem.

For this reason we developed and create an installer for windows server using Rake (make for ruby project) and Inno Setup to create the final .exe setup file.

If you want to test it you can find the installer (and source for Rake file) here.

Enjoy and report us any problem.

Continue reading »]]> With @LouisCoilliot we are preparing some new videos that will be used to explain kermit’s main functionalities; basically will be a doc extension. Naturally you could find all the videos on the KermIT website (we are actually preparing the new version).

KermIT: execute basic operations

KermIT: Post installation steps

KermIT: Server details

Stay tuned for many others KermIT news!!

Continue reading »]]> If, like me, you used to work on many computers, you should reconfigure anything to allow all your machines. Today I was stucked on heroku repository clone (problem with ssh key on my work laptop).

To add new machine to your heroku account (after heroku package installation, using gem for example), you should just use

mmornati@notebook projects$ heroku keys:add

Found existing public key: /home/mmornati/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Uploading SSH public key /home/mmornati/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

And, if everything worked well, you should have access to your repository:

mmornati@notebook projects$ git clone git@heroku.com:mmornatibot.git
Cloning into 'mmornatibot'...
remote: Counting objects: 226, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (219/219), done.
remote: Total 226 (delta 41), reused 141 (delta 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (226/226), 95.28 KiB | 50 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (41/41), done.

Continue reading »]]> By default, when you configure a Google account on your iOS device, there is just your default calendar synchronized with iPhone/iPad. But if you have, like me, configured and imported some other calendars that are displayed on your gcal, you surely would have them on your portable device too.

For example, in my account, I’ve import end my Google Apps (professional) calendar, French/Italian holidays calendar, and some other.

To configure what you want to have on your iOS device too, you should visit the mobile sync page (from your device):

http://m.google.com/sync

If you have your google account with a language different from english (I just tested with french and italian, so maybe some other languages works without this tips), you should see an “error” page

The error page says google sync is not supported on your device. And even if you retry to refresh the url, you have always the error. As we already (partially) said, the problem is not your device but the language used to show the page. If you click on “change language” (naturally link is displayed in your language, in the image is “modifica lingua”) and select “English US” you can see the real sync page.

In my example, I’ve already two devices configured with my sync account, so in the page I can see sync devices and I can select the one I’d like to configure. If you have never configured your device you should directly access to config page.

Here you have just to check the calendars you’d like to synchronize to your iOS device and save the changes.

You can check if all worked well accessing the device calendar configuration app:

Completed!

Enjoy your sync.

Continue reading »]]> I finally had time to test the latest version of XBMC media center (version 11) on my Fedora 16.
My first test was using directly the rpm provided on rawhide repositories (fedora and rpm-fusion-free) but in this way many others components will be updated (like gnome for example) because the package is produced for Fedora 17.

So, following this little guide that provides all necessary steps, I built XBMC directly on my Fedora.
The only things to add at the end, is to export the lib folder for the normal user (at least, on my fedora xbmc didn’t work without this step).

So, for example, you can edit your .bashrc file:

mmornati@desktop ~$ pwd
/home/mmornati
mmornati@desktop ~$ vi .bashrc

Adding this line at the end of the file

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And then you can startup you XBMC without problem

As you can see in the following picture, it’s really simple to use XBMC as AirPlay server (for videos, photos and music).

Continue reading »]]> I just discovered and tested a nice project that allow you to create an AirPlay server to use as a simple speaker for your iOS device (for example send audio from your iPod to your Linux PC): Shairport!!

To install and use it on Fedora 16 distribution is really simple.
First of all you should install all the required packages to build this project:

yum install openssl-devel libao libao-devel perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-libwww-perl avahi-tools

Then, after a little clone of the git repository

git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git

You can enter in the shairport directory and build it

mmornati@desktop shairport$ make
cc -O2 -Wall   -DHAIRTUNES_STANDALONE hairtunes.c alac.o -o hairtunes -lm -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -lao
cc -O2 -Wall   -c socketlib.c -o socketlib.o
cc -O2 -Wall   -c shairport.c -o shairport.o
cc -O2 -Wall   -c hairtunes.c -o hairtunes.o
cc -O2 -Wall   socketlib.o shairport.o alac.o hairtunes.o -o shairport -lm -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -lao

Now you can simply startup the shairport script and check if all works well using your iOS device

mmornati@desktop shairport$ perl shairport.pl
Established under name 'D2908EECAA5A@ShairPort 3882 on desktop'
requesting resend on 1 packets (port 53568)

Continue reading »]]> I just released the new ePomodoro version. It includes:

• Minor bugfixing
• Message Receiver Listener activated also when Team Status view is not active/visible
• Restyled user message box (to send a message to user you can select it on the TeamStatus table and then chose Send Message using the right-click context menu)

You can find it on the ePomodoro update site (I noticed that you can’t browse the repository if you are using Google Chrome or Safari, don’t know why), or download it from Google Code ePomodoro page.

And, starting today, you can find it on the Eclipse Marketplace too (I think you should use the update site even if you pass for the marketplace).

Sources are available on GitHub and Google Code.

Continue reading »]]> Since today you can install ePomodoro directly using the provided update site! And naturally update it using the Eclipse function Check for Update.

You can add this Update Site: http://repos.mornati.net/eclipse/ and select ePomodoro.

Should work, even if at the moment you get a message saying the content is not signed, bla, bla, bla. I’ll fix it next days, but let me know if you can install ePomodoro without problems.

Continue reading »]]> I’ve just released the ePomodoro 1.0.3.

This version includes:

• Bugfixes in communication stuffs
• Changes to UI interfaces
• Added status bar timer management (no more view required)
• Added single user message (shown just when selected user is not on Pomodoro)
• Added configuration of connection parameters in preference page (you can choose manyally the bind address if it does not work)

You can download the binary directly on GitHub or GoogleCode (sources are on both server):

https://github.com/mmornati/epomodoro/downloads

http://code.google.com/p/e-pomodoro/downloads/list

Enjoy your Pomodoro work!