Image Originally uploaded by lhaig My attempt at being artistic. I was walking outside after the snow this February and found this bush. I think it make for quite a nice picture

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Bongo Mono API For quite some time now I have been trying to learn a programming language to try to get my ideas for applications built. As part of the learning curve I have started trying to use MonoDevelop and mono to create an app that will allow you to browse the Bongo store. One of the developers on the Bongo …

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I have been working on getting the svn build of Bongo into the rPath repo for users to try. I have now completed that and the newest build of bongo is available in the 0.40-devel repository. Please be aware that this version has only been tested on rPath 2 and so cannot be used on rPath 1 systems. Please also remember …

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Well, I remember I said to myself this year I will get the svn build for Bongo into the bongo repo on rPath. It has taken a awhile but I now have the 0.4 svn version available in the repository. I will also be creating a few VM's of the experimental new rPath 2 version of the Bongo appliance. WARNING!!!!!! The Web UI …

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I have been working on the product definitions for Foresight Linux repositories which will help the different versions have a common set of details. I will try to blog as much as possible about this so that everyone knows where I am at. I am currently setting up a test definition on my playground repo so that I can …

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On Friday and Saturday I was lucky enough to have gone to Linux Live in Olympia London UK and work the stand with Alex. As Alex has blogged the show was very quiet and it seems the .org village was an afterthought to the organisers. As Alex said in his blog http://www.alexhudson.com I think that there was not enough …

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This evening Stu Gott dropped a bombshell on me, not literally but it had a similar impact. The people at rPath have run a report on our little project and I was shocked to say the least when I found out that the Bongo appliance has been downloaded 0ver 7000 times. I seem to remember thinking this is a nice small …

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I have been running the release version of VMware Server 2 and I must say I am impressed. the only problems I had were with existing VM's and upgrading the tools on them. And also VM's that have open-vm-tools installed. After updating the tools the systems all have been functioning just fine over the last few weeks and …

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Ever since vmware made ESXi a free download I have wanted to install and run it at home so I can P to V my systems at home. And save money on electricity. And before you ask I have looked at the Xen and Virtualbox and Kvm solutions but have found them not quite ready fro my prime time. I had been running vmware server …

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Well I knew it would happen and it eventually did. I was going to work this morning and I had to swerve for a black porsche and my bike dropped. I landed on my right hand side and slid down the road. I have a few bruises and bumps and will be seeing the doctor tomorrow morning. The bike is in the shop at the moment I …

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