As noticed this blog hasn’t been updated in a long while. This i mainly due to two things.

1. A growing family.
2. A lot of work.

On the family side we have expanded from three to five family members. Three lovely kids that takes all of my free time as it is now.

On the work side these last 2 years has been hectic and eventful. 2010 we started to migrate our first municipally network to a new platform. 2011 we combined our forces with a neighboring municipally and started to migrate their IT environment to our new platform, making us one IT-Department with one big network, this isn’t quite done since the focus has been on the client side so far. this year will be a server side migration year as we will migrate all servers to the new environment.

On top of 2011 years project we had a big server hall project in which  we had to move all of our servers back from a temporary location to our newly built server hall. Our servers have during the last year been residing in a Rittal Container.

On the private side this year i will focus on cleaning up my stale projects and get some of the running again, among them is www.osource.se, my newest project where i’m focusing on open source software in two ways. The first way is producing Swedish How-To:s mainly for openSUSE, but not limited to that. The second way is creating software/scripts that a personally need and releasing them for others to use.

This site will be resting a bit and will be turned into my personal ranting blog during this year and will hopefully along side osource.se be active again.

Until next time, live long and prosper.

From now on you can reach me either on Twitter or mobile, I have the possebillity to watch my sites from almost anywhere.

Having problem with getting the Volume Up/Down & Mute/Unmute buttons on your Packard Bell EasyNote MX36 and Linux?

This might work for as it did for me. I was frustrated that these simple three buttons didn’t work anymore in Linux, those I’ve been running anyway(ubuntu & openSUSE), they used to work up till version 8.04 of ubuntu, in openSUSE i don’t know if they ever worked.

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I have been struggling with the feature of export / import appliance in VirtualBox for a couple of days now and every time it failed and my frustration grew. The problem i had was that my guest system couldn’t find its partitions after import.

Finally i found the issue, it was due to that my guest OS(openSUSE) called the partition by name ID instead of with device name, the ID was unique to the machine being exported thus changed for the new imported machine.

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