Update of Rivendell 2 beta packages
on Nov 01, 2011
First Rivendell 2 debian/ubuntu packages were released last week to be tested. Update : Rivendell 2.1.0 has been released yesterday, packages have been updated. These new releases (2.0.2-2 and 2.1.0-1) provide several improvements in packaging : Changes Packages remove their…
Read moreRivendell 2, beta Debian/Ubuntu packages
on Oct 18, 2011
Rivendell 2 has been released in May. Few months have been necessary to refactor the debian packages. Here is a first “beta” release. The packages need to be tested on various platforms before a real release. Your feedback is welcome…
Read moreArduino Uno as a connected event trigger
on Feb 28, 2011
In the beginning, there was a need One of our customer asked us for a hardware solution to create events in the pigebox without having to access the web form. He said the members of the radio are not always…
Read moreDev support at SysAdmin Paris
on Feb 18, 2011
On 10/11 february, the second SysAdmin Paris days were organized in the nice IRCAM site near the Centre Pompidou. During the two days, the talks were very interesting : Postgresql 9, MongoDB, large storage solutions, … The talks were broadcasted…
Read moreSudo authentication with libpam-ssh-agent
on Sep 28, 2010
With virtualization environments, a simple infrastructure contains easily 15/20 hosts. Administrators often have to perform operations across several hosts. One of the consequences : a (good) administrator has to input his passwords to “unlock” sudo several dozen times per day….
Read moreQemu and vde switch
on Sep 11, 2010
By using QEMU or KVM virtual machines (to test Tryphon Boxes for example), you have to configure a network access. Even if tap/tun and NAT/bridge configurations have no secret for you, configuring a tap0 device on each qemu boot or…
Read moredebian.tryphon.org migration
on Aug 20, 2010
The Tryphon debian repository has been migrated on a new server : a larger storage, a newer debarchiver version (with bzip support), a more powerful apache server. For many years, this repository provides debian and ubuntu packages for several domains…
Read moreAgile Puppet at Séminaire SysAdmin 2010
on Aug 15, 2010
The first edition of SysAdmin Séminaire was organized on August 2 in the buildings of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Here are the slides of our presentation “Agile Puppet”. If Puppet changes sysadmin operations into source files, we need…
Read moreTest StreamBox livecd
on Jun 03, 2010
We’re releasing the first demo livecd for the Tryphon StreamBox. This 200MB iso image contains the StreamBox boot image. You can burn and boot it or use a virtual machine. Don’t espect a nice desktop, the StreamBox is a small…
Read morePuppetCamp Europe 2010 – Embedded Puppet
on May 28, 2010
Here are the slides for our presentation “Embedded Puppet” yesterday at PuppetCamp Europe 2010. We’re using Puppet to build embedded systems provided in Tryphon Boxes (run puppet in a chroot environment, create readable build scripts, share code between projects). Puppet…
Read moreTryphon Boxes at PuppetCamp Europe
on May 24, 2010
The PuppetCamp team has selected our speaking “Embedded Puppet” for PuppetCamp Europe (next thursday and friday in Ghent). We’re very proud to present how Puppet helps us to make Tryphon Boxes. We’ll present the two Puppet roles in our boxes…
Read moreLarge download with open-uri
on May 09, 2010
By creating release upgrade of Tryphon Boxes (especially for StreamBox), we discovered that OpenURI downloads the given url in a temporary file (or memory for small files). Certainly a nice idea in most of cases, but when you’re a Tryphon…
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