This week the first official CentOS Dojo in Cologne was taking place. CentOS Dojos are one-day events where administrators and developers can exchange knowledge. Talks about recent topics are always part of these events.

inovex GmbH kindly features the event by providing their rooms and hearty catering. Beside coffee …

Files can be easily transfered from an Android device to Windows computer using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Unfortunately this protocol is not supported in Finder which means that you need to connect your smartphone as hard drive - if this function is supported.

My Android 4.4.x ROM isn't supporting this function …

Recently I was confused when I spotted several spam comments on my blog. After logging into the Wordpress administration page I saw the reason for this issue:

1Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly.

Oops - where did that come from?

It seems like my …

While importing the recent EPEL7 YUM repositories I stumbled upon the following error:

1# /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel epel-el7-x86_64 
2> --url http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/ 
3> --type yum -c epel-el7-x86_64
4Repo URL: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/
5ERROR: xz …

It is possible that RHEL7 channels aren't available to Red Hat Satellite even though you're having a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription.

The appropriate software channel (rhel-x86_64-server-7) is not part of the list of available channels - it also cannot be downloaded manually:

1# satellite-sync …

At about two years ago I replaced a lot of my hardware with more power-saving alternatives. My self-made NAS and hypervisor wer replaces by two HP ProLiant MicroServer G7 servers (N36L and N40L) - for a long time I was very happy with them.

In the last months the amount of VMs increased and now the CPU and memory …

Beside Linux systems also Oracle Solaris hosts can be managed using Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite - a cool feature that is often forgotten. (Update: since Spacewalk 2.2 from 07/16/2014 this function is "deprecated" which means that it might be removed in one of the following releases)

Bigger companies which …

Using Raspbian it is possible to convert a Raspberry Pi into a full-featured Webserver with PHP support. Using SQLite the embedded web server is also capable of serving database-driven web applications.

First of all the official Monkey APT repository needs to be included - this can done very easily by addind a line …

It is possible that the following error message is displayed on client systems when software packages are distributed using Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite or SUSE Manager:

1Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]

This issue rests on the database of the management suite. After a while (or after a …