Install OpenERP on CentOS 6.0 with Nginx HTTP Proxy

Posted on Fri 15 July 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, erp, howto, Nginx, openerp, tutorial

This tutorial should help you with the installation process of OpenERP on CentOS 6.x.

I installed OpenERP server and the OpenERP webgui with a nginx http proxy on a CentOS 6.0.

First of all I installed minmal CentOS 6.0.

Login as root and process the following steps …


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Create Mac OS X 10.7 alias Lion DVD

Posted on Wed 13 July 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Lion, Mac, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X Lion

As you maybe have heard Mac OS X Lion will be available only via the App Store. Many people asked how they can perform a complete new installation if you only have access via the App Store to the latest version of there os. First install Mac OS X 10 …


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CentOS 6 is out

Posted on Mon 11 July 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS

8 month after RHEL 6 was released the free clone CentOS 6 is released. It includes all new features and is binary compatible to Red Hats Enterprise Linux 6.

Based on Linux kernel 2.6.32 it includes for example PostgreSQL 8.4 and MySQL 5.1.

Like RedHat, the …


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Projects

Posted on Sat 09 July 2011 in About

This page should give you an overview of projects I am working on.

Sinatra, ActiveRecord, shotgun and tmux project skeleton

With my Sinatra project skeleton I try to maintain my quick and dirty Ruby hacks for simple web apps I need for my daily work and private projects. Maybe I …


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Install Grub bootloader from live cd

Posted on Sat 09 July 2011 in Linux • Tagged with Grub, Linux

Grub is the default bootloader for the most popular Linux distributions. The installation procedure is not so easy if you're not familiar with the concept behind it.

After a restore or copy of a system to a new harddisk the bootloader needs to be reinstalled to this new disk. If …


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GitHub brings its own Mac client

Posted on Mon 04 July 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Git, GitHub, Mac, Tool

GitHub became one of the most popular places for free and commercial software development the last few months. The market around the great DVCS Git initiated by Linux Torvalds became more and more popular. It is fast and fixes many problems for distributed code development by design.

A colleague of …


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Added Flattr to my Blog

Posted on Mon 04 July 2011 in Blogging • Tagged with Flattr

As you my have recognized I integrated a Flattr button to my posts since a few days.

For all who don't know Flattr up to know here is a short description:

Would be nice if the concept of Flattr is interessting for you and maybe you join it. And maybe …


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Problem booting OpenSuSE 11.4 with error "Bug: SoftLookup"

Posted on Mon 27 June 2011 in Linux • Tagged with opensuse

On a desktop machine I updated from OpenSuSE 11.1 to 11.4 there appeared some strange boot problems after installation.

The system freezes each time directly after grub and the only message I got in textmode was "Bug: SoftLookup". First I thought maybe there are hardware problems but the …


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Create iso file from CD/DVD on Mac OS X

Posted on Mon 20 June 2011 in Mac • Tagged with dd, image, iso

On Unix like systems it's easy to create an ISO image from an CD or DVD with dd.

You only need to know the device name of your CD or DVD device and a terminal.

If you don't know the device name open a terminal and type:

drutil status

This …


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SizeUp - window management tool for Mac OS X

Posted on Sun 19 June 2011 in Mac • Tagged with mac os x, sizeup, window management

With SizeUp I found exactly what I need for managing my application windows on Mac OS X.

One of my daily use cases where SizeUp helps me a lot is when I have open many iTerm windows with ssh shells. On my desktop there are often a lot of shells …


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