Aspera Ad Astra Reborn

Well, I think it's about time to talk a little bit about the stuff I use... Part I: The XP- Framework.

First of all, what is the XP Framework:

From XP-Framework.net:

"The XP Framework offers consistent, multi-purpose, object oriented, production-tested collection of classes, APIs for app server connectivity, web services, dynamic web sites, date access and manipulation, logging, collections, I/O, databases, O/R mapping, XML, unittesting, and much more. "

And from Planet-XP:

"XP technology is a rapid development environment. It will run anywhere PHP runs, Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS, on your desktop PC, on your enterprise application cluster and on your hoster's webserver. "

Now, this does sound like "marketingspeak", but trust me on this: It's from a techie, and since I know the developers in person, I can tell you that you can trust their word.

The Framework is licensed under a BSD- License, so you're pretty free in what you actually want to do with it, something I think should be considered when choosing a framework.

This thing utilizes some quite advanced programing topics, so you should know what you are doing.

A tutorial on how to install the framework and setting up a development environment will follow soon.

Hi,

I'm looking for a couple of Alpha- Testers for a private project I'm currently working on.

(A Browser Game)

If you're interested, comment below with your EMail in the body. (They will not be published on this page!)

I'm needings something around 10 people.

Requirements:
- Passion for Browser Games
- German or English skills

There'll be more testing in the future, this is only for some basic tests.

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Well, while rearanging my boxes last night I came upon this situation:

Installing Windows and Ubuntu Hardy on a system with a FakeRaid in Mirror- Mode.

Actually, it's pretty easy, so I thought I'd share some small comments about what needs to be done:

- Configure your RAID (1) on your BIOS level.
- Installer won't work out of the box, boot the live CD.
- Install the dmraid package and sync with dmraid -ay, after this the raid drives should become available.
- Start the installer from within the live CD environment and install as you like.
- After installing continue in LiveCD mode and open a shell.
- Mount your partitions, proc, dev, sysfs and whatever else you need.
- chroot into the mounted system.
- Install dmraid within the chroot.
- Check your grub settings.
- Unmount everything and reboot into the new system.

I've got this working with Windows and Ubuntu on the same RAID currently... the first verify of the mirror after a day didn't show anything broken.

Be careful to check and resync your mirror in case there is something wrong.

I wonder if it really works this easy, as I usually only use real RAID- Controllers.

Remember to always reference the RAID- Drives and not the actual SDX- or HDX- drives!
(e.g. use those in /dev/mapper/via_XXXXXXXX or whatever they are called).