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Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 is shaping up to be a fantabulous release from the server team! Get to know all the hot new features landing in Oneiric server, as well as the people behind them! This time I'm interviewing Robbie the Ubuntu server team manager, who gives a high level overview of 11.10 features, as well as future cloud and server directions

Jesse Anderson is a developer who created millions of virtual monkeys on the cloud, handed them virtual keyboards and they started typing! Typing monkey talk of course. Surprisingly if you give those monkeys enough time, they could recreate Shakespearean work! Check this interview with Jesse to shed more light onto how this magic came by! And oh yes, it was all on Ubuntu

So you wanted to play with hadoop to crunch on some big-data problems, except that, well getting a hadoop cluster up and running in not exactly a one minute thing! Let me show you how to make it “a one minute thing” using Ensemble! Since Ensemble now has formulas for creating hadoop master and slave nodes, thanks to the great work of Juan Negron. Spinning up a hadoop cluster could not be easier!

I found a listing of 60,000 documented UFO sightings, hmm interesting! I started thinking I could crunch on this data in some useful and fun way, what about finding the most commonly spotted UFO shapes. What about crunching on this data on the cloud using Ubuntu and it's very new Ensemble technology. Check out how I did it

TODAY is Ubuntu Cloud Days #UCD. UCD is an IRC event where the Ubuntu Cloud Community gets together around tuition sessions and information sharing. During Cloud Days, you’ll learn lots of exciting stuff, you’ll interact with tons of smart people, and you’ll just have fun!

An Ubuntu server engineer writes to tell us about a new innovative cloud technology "Ensemble" that the Ubuntu team has been working on. So What is Ensemble anyway? Ensemble simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of services in the cloud. Developers, systems administrators, and DevOps practitioners can create, share, and modify Ensemble formulas to rapidly deploy their solutions in the cloud (and soon hardware!). What's interesting is that Ensemble manages the whole deployment on many servers as one big, well, ensemble! Excited about Cloud/Service orchestration already? Check the article for more details

Ubuntu is hosting a technology event on IRC that starts in two days, it's focused on Cloud Computing technologies. The event is "Ubuntu Cloud Days" and it features technical sessions from the Ubuntu cloud team and various Ubuntu community members. Sample technologies covered include GlusterFS scalable filesystem, Ensemble distributed orchestration framework, OpenStack Cloud framework, LXC Linux containers, UEC Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Hadoop among others. If you're an Ubuntu Server guy, or if you are intrigued by Cloud computing, you will most likely enjoy this event

I'll demo how to "Install Windows7 over Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, using KVM with System Disk over VirtIO". Quoting the libvirt wiki "Virtio is a Linux standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of paravirtualization"

This artcile provides insight on how and why our current Internet-2.0 and cloud based applications are a worse compting platform than even the worse tyrants of the closed source software vendors. The article then suggests a model that promotes open data access and cloud services co-operation instead of today's status where the biggest cloud vendors are in a "lockin competition"

Combine the power of Google location services with the power of nix shell tools, and you are able to answer the age old question of "Where am I?" right from the comfort of your bash shell! This short article shows you a bash onliner that connects to Google and gets what Google thinks is your GPS location and street address. Quoting the author "If the returned information is wrong, or some kind of "unknown" .. Consider yourself lucky, very lucky! That means Google does not (yet?) know where your wifi AP is. For the rest of us .. tin-foil all the way"

Creating a largish playlist for Android is no longer painful. Learn how to create those from the PC

Recently I started using Google's browser Chrome (well technically chromium) on Linux for my browsing needs. It is very fast, low on CPU and Memory, I quite like it. I am now also sure Flash plugin is teh CPU hog pig :) Anyway, one really cool feature I missed from Firefox was the ability to set multiple pages as the homepage. In firefox, I'd just click the Home button, and it would open all of the pages I regularly follow, I could not find this functionality out of the box with Chrome. What is a geek to do ? Well of course write some javascript :)

Conficker is one nasty Virus! It is able to spread on the LAN, infect other machines, and even auto-update itself! Learn how scan your network using the open-source nmap tool, and identify machines which are possible infected with Conficker

OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been recently released. Since ZFS offers a lot of flexibility and advantages as a storage platform, many would be interested in running the opensolaris stack. In this article I'll be installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 para-virtualized under a centos-5-x64 dom0. This setup has the advatange of running OpenSolaris on storage controllers that may not have native solaris driver support.

If you're not on a flat-rate ISP data-plan, and your ISP made you pay extra last month such as myself. You might be interested in monitoring your total home bandwidth usage. A nifty little feature of most routers or ADSL modems, is support for SNMP. In this blog I will be writing a Windows batch file and using net-snmp tools on Windows to poll the ADSL router for SNMP usage data, then a python script will post-process the data to generate a total monthly usage report. The same python script and snmpget command can be used on Linux and other platforms

Tired of your friends showing up with windows virus infected laptops ? Well, next time you shine some Gentoo power on them with this wonderful Gentoo based Kaspersky powered rescue CD.

What is the D-Bus? From the D-Bus documentation: "D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism—a medium for local communication between processes running on the same host. (Inter-host connects may be added in the future, but that is not what D-Bus is meant for). D-Bus is meant to be fast and lightweight, and is designed for use as a unified middleware layer underneath the main free desktop environments" So for the non technically inclined (why are you reading this anyway) ;) basically a simple way to think of D-Bus, is that it's a way for processes on an operating system to communicate with each other. That's probably a simple and non accurate enough wording, but it should help grasp the concept. Many utilities nowadays are implementing D-Bus connectivity. It is especially interesting (well for me anyway) to script some GUI elements like for example my KDE-4 desktop from the command line. This would help automate some tasks and is cool anyways. Let's see how to begin talking on the D-Bus