Bits and Bytes

With the recent release of the SUSE Cloud Application Platform based on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes , you might be wondering what benefits SUSE brings to these open source projects. Let me sh...

http://blog.seader.us/2018/03/suse-is-trusted-source-for-your-cloud.html

NVIDIA Optimus is a technology that allows an Intel integrated GPU and discrete NVIDIA GPU to be built into and accessible through a laptop. Getting Optimus graphics to work on Linux requires a f...

http://blog.seader.us/2017/11/dell-precision-5520-nvidia-optimus.html

Going forward libinput is in favor of using synaptics touchpad driver and will integrate better with future DE environments especially as things move towards the use of Wayland. Some DE environme...

http://blog.seader.us/2017/11/dell-precision-5520-touchpad-opensuse.html

As you know Tumbleweed is constantly churning and as such there are points in time where some of the libraries required to run VMware Workstation get a new version that isn't compatible with the...

http://blog.seader.us/2017/03/vmware-workstation-12xx-for-latest.html

OPENSTACK SUMMIT BOSTON 2017 PRESENTATION VOTES (ENDS FEB. 21ST, 2017 AT 11:59PM PST) Open voting is available for all session submissions until Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:59PM PST. This is a...

http://blog.seader.us/2017/02/openstack-summit-boston-2017.html

I've rounded up the working patches from the public posts and created my own patch files. You can use my updated VMware module compile script to patch it as well. It also does a bit of cleanup....

http://blog.seader.us/2017/01/vmware-workstation-1252-patch-for-linux.html

Well if your like me and you have been sick of this Error: Failed to get gcc information. for awhile now when installing VMware Workstation on the major Linux distributions out there then you lik...

http://blog.seader.us/2016/09/vmware-workstation-gcc-5x-linux-error.html

My traffic shaping has really worked out using pfsense to lower my buffer bloat and get better network performance. I built my own pfsense from a Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF PC with an Intel Core ...

http://blog.seader.us/2016/08/traffic-shaping-with-virtual-pfsense.html

Open voting is available for all session submissions until Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:59PM PST. This is a great way for the community to decide what they want to hear.  I have submitted a h...

http://blog.seader.us/2016/02/openstack-summit-austin-2016.html

If you used the SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4 Admin Appliance, you know it was a downloadable, OpenStack Icehouse-based appliance, which even a non-technical user could get off the ground to deploy an ...

http://blog.seader.us/2015/06/suse-openstack-cloud-5-admin-appliance.html

Since the release of the 3.19 kernel in openSUSE Tumbleweed the vmnet module will fail to build for VMware Workstation 11.0.x VMware community message Credit for the patch patch available ...

http://blog.seader.us/2015/02/opensuse-tumbleweed-319-kernel-vmware.html

Open voting is available for all session submissions until February 23rd at 5pm CST. This is a great way for the community to decide what they want to hear.  I have submitted a handful of sess...

http://blog.seader.us/2015/02/openstack-summit-vancouver-2015.html

Since the introduction of P-States in the Intel SandyBridge and newer processors and the introduction of the P-States driver in the kernel since 3.9 there have been some changes to the power mana...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/10/opensuse-13x-factory-processor-p-states.html

I hope all who have been using the appliance are enjoying it and finding it useful. I felt it time to update the appliance to include patches to the latest known threats and critical updates to O...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/10/suse-cloud-4-openstack-admin-appliance.html

If you used the SUSE Cloud 3 OpenStack Admin Appliance, you know it was a downloadable, OpenStack Havana-based appliance, which even a non-technical user could get off the ground to deploy an Op...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/08/suse-cloud-4-openstack-admin-appliance.html

Continuing in our efforts to create the SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance into a quick and easy way to deploy OpenStack, we have reached version 1.2.0. You can download the Standard or Embedded versio...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/updated-suse-cloud-3-admin-appliance_25.html

Continuing in our efforts to create SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance into a quick and easy way to deploy OpenStack, we have reached version 1.1.0. You can download the Standard or Embedded version. ...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/updated-suse-cloud-3-admin-appliance.html

In an effort to make OpenStack available to the non-tech user and appear much less of a heavy lifting project for them, I have created the SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance. I have worked with so many...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/quickly-setting-up-openstack-cloud-with.html

Download this patch Then follow these steps from a terminal as root user > # cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ >  # cp vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.original >  # tar xvf vmnet.tar vmnet...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/vmware-workstation-1001-and-kernel-314.html

Run the following. Download this kernel patch Download the NVIDIA driver version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.49.bin from root execute:    # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.49.bin --apply-patch ke...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/opensuse-131-with-kernel-314-and-nvidia.html

So if your struggling to get the full functionality out of Blackboard Collaborate. Usually your unable to get the Application Sharing to work properly, but there might be other reasons. Here are ...

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/running-blackboard-collaborate.html

Joining the OpenStack blogosphere. I will soon have some posts around SUSE Cloud. Stay tuned. -C

http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/greetings-openstack-planet.html

If your running VMware Workstation 9 and above and you use both existing and new VMs you can possibly get a return of "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer proce...

http://blog.seader.us/2013/11/opensuse-131-vmware-workstation-9.html

If your running openSUSE 13.1 and you use Webex on a regular basis for home/work/other you have probably noticed that it does not execute properly and you can't get some of the features to work ...

http://blog.seader.us/2013/11/running-webex-on-opensuse-131-64-bit.html

If your like me and you don't ever like the methods that are laid out by the manufacturer to burn an ISO to CD or use a Windows Update utility then follow these ins...

http://blog.seader.us/2013/10/lenovo-bios-update-method-for-linux-and.html