TripleO Quickstart is a set of Ansible scripts that will configure a remote host with several virtual machines and install OpenStack TripleO on the nodes. This allows full testing of automated OpenStack deployment inside a virtual baremetal environment using limited hardware. The one downside of TripleO Quickstart for many developers, is that the scripts only… Read More

Firefox 52 disables plugins such as Java, or the Spice-XPI plugin, and others with the exception of Adobe Flash. I actually would have preferred if they disabled Flash and left the rest of us able to use our plugins, but I’m sure there was a good security reason behind disabling most NPAPI plugins. If you… Read More

Fedora systems come with an X.org configuration which automatically turns on pixel doubling for screens that have a resolution higher than 2560×1440. This has the net effect of making all the UI elements use 4 times as many pixels as they would on a screen with lower resolution. This looks beautiful, as text is rendered… Read More

I just returned home from Barcelona, where I attended the OpenStack Design Summit for Ocata, the next release of OpenStack. It was a good trip, I think I ate more excellent food in one week than ever before. The weather cooperated, providing opportunities for sitting on the beach with a Cerveza in hand, talking with… Read More

A coworker brought this up, and it’s worth noting: what’s wrong with this? # parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext2 1M 8M # mke2fs /dev/sda1 Unfortunately, this will occasionally fail with this error from mk2fs: The file /dev/sda1 does not exist and no size was specified. This is due to a race condition in the… Read More