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Entries for February, 2009

5 Things IT geeks can do to help the australian bush fire

You can see the latest fire threat from theage.
You don’t need to be in Victoria to provide aid to the victorian bushfires.
From physically volunteering to providing monetary donations, there are a lot of things that you can do. If you are an IT geek, you can spread the word digitally. Every effort counts.
1. Create awareness [...]

Resizing file based xen virtual machine

You can create file based xen instances (eg, blarblar.img). If you have partitions in the file and want to increase the disk space, you cannot use resize2fs straight away on it. So you need to create a new larger file, then transfer the old file data onto it:
say I want the new filesize to be [...]

WSO2 offers open source, componentized SOA (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld – Open source SOA vendor WSO2 on Monday will debut a componentized framework for SOA based on OSGi, with the intent of letting user sites assemble just what they need for their own deployments without having to carry excess software.

How to resize LVM running Xen part 2 – decrease disk size

shrinking a lvm partition is straight forward if it doesn’t contain a partition table. Simply do a:

umount lvm_partition
resize2fs /dev/vg/lv newSize
lvresize -L disksize /dev/vg/lv
resize2fs /dev/vg/lv

execute the last command if nessary. Assuming you have a partition table in a 10G domU which uses the default partition table,

Disk /dev/xenvg/XenWeb: 10.5 GB, 10502537216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1276 cylinders
Units [...]

Some TV stations to end analog signal on Feb. 17 (AP)

AP – Television viewers who use antennas and were expecting a few more months to prepare for digital TV may not have much time left before their sets go dark: Many stations still plan to drop analog broadcasts in less than two weeks.