5 – 9 May packed in tips for LConf, spreadsheets and streaming clients, three events and Puppet webinar too.
On events, Eva announced our Call for Papers for the Open Source Monitoring Conference and the Open Source Backup Conference, while Bernd headed off to Linux Tag in Berlin.
Christian continued, with a webinar on Puppet and Foreman as Dirk set up restricted user accounts in LConf using ACL.
Finally, Thilo made spread sheet magic with the help of the Ruby Gem, Roo and Marius compared Chromecast, Apple TV and Roku Stick.
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Weekly Snap: Screen & SSH, Foreman & Parameterized Classes
28 April – 2 May hailed in a new month with sys admin tips galore and a Request Tracker webinar slipped in.
Ronny began the week by sharing his trick to get Screen to work with SSH agent forwarding properly.
Markus then explained parameterized classes in Foreman as Michael showed how simple it is to configure Icinga 2 using the recent 0.0.10 release.
Last but not least, Christian and Marius held a successful webinar on Request Tracker after a technical hiccup.
Weekly Snap: Free Chromecast, New HWg-PWR M-Bus & Graphite on CentOS
21 – 25 April was a quick week dominated by news from our hardware store, with a Graphite guide and a freebie thrown in.
Georg introduced the newest product to hit our hardware store – HW Group’s HWg-PWR M-Bus Ethernet Gateway and announced our free Chromecast deal.
In the meantime, Eric showed how to install Graphite on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.
Weekly Snap: Puppet Course in Prague, OSSM & Debian Easter Eggs
14 – 18 April lead us to Easter with a course on its way, a conference just past and some hidden eggs.
Silke began the week by heralding the arrival of our Puppet Fundamentals training course to Prague.
Thomas followed with his impressions of the Open Source System Management conference in Bozen, and Markus hunted for Easter eggs in Debian GNU/Linux’ packaging tool, APT.
Weekly Snap: OSDC 2014, Puppet Camp & GnuPG/GPG Best Practices
7 – 11 April was OSDC 2014 and PuppetCamp week, with a few GPG best practices and Python musings slipped in.
Eva ended her countdown to the OSDC with Daniel Kirstenpfad’s talk on ‘Why Virtual Development and Testing isn’t Rocket Science’ and thanked all attendees and sponsors in advance. Dirk and Michael then followed with their highlights from the first and second days at the OSDC 2014.
Continuing with events, Christian announced the next round of webinars featuring Request Tracker, Puppet, Bareos and inGraph and Dirk returned with his review of Puppet Camp 2014.
Thomas then gave a comprehensive rundown of GnuPG / GPG best practices as Alexander shared his thoughts on Python 2.4 and RHEL.
Finally, Georg ended the week by introducing the newest addition to our hardware store: HW Group Poseidon2 3266.
