Andreas Luka

Tangomarathon del Hutong

aluka — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:15 +0000

Share with us (the Beijing tango community) 4 days the experience of Tango in Beijing’s old romantic lanes (hutongs) at the Tangomarathon 2012 from March 15th . to 18th.

The official marathon blog is: http://blog.sina.com.cn/tangomarathon

AMP and WordPress Installation on Solaris/OpenIndiana

aluka — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:41:02 +0000

The short form:

1. Installation
pkg install amp pkg install wordpress (from SFE repo)

2. Start service:
svcadm enable http:apache22 svcadm enable mysql:version_51

3. Create wordpress database

The long form
will coming soon in the tutorial section

Solaris 11 Multimedia IPS repository

aluka — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:45:20 +0000

I’m using the packages from http://solarish.net for mp3 and other media formats. Thankś a lot guys. Workś well. Only a small glitch with the id3lib as this is already provided by Oracle Solaris.

Add the publisher by:

pkg set-publisher -g http://solarish.net/pkg/i386/ solarish.net

Solaris 11 installed

aluka — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:18:06 +0000

The update from Solaris 11 Express on my laptop (HP Pavillion dm3) went not that smoothly. Mostly conflicts with the multimedia packages from homeunix. So I did a copy of the boot environment, removed all homeunix (multimedia) and OpenSolaris (webstack gui) packages and than it went well.

Things to do:

Adding ntfs support
Adding support for mp3
Adding postgresql/postgis
Installing OpenOffice
Installing Netbeans
Installing AMP & wordpress

OpenIndiana 151a installed

aluka — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:10:19 +0000

The installation on my HP Workstation went smooth. With the extra repositories almost everything (multimedia, ntfs support and wordpress) are available.

Some smaller quirks:

NTFS – the missing link:

ln -s /devices/pseudo/fuse@0:fuse /dev/fuse

Welcome in the year of the dragon

aluka — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:06:46 +0000

Dragon in Taiyuan Jinci park

Happy new year to all my friends. All my best wishes. 恭喜发财.

Christmas and New Year holidays in Canada

aluka — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:55:15 +0000

We had some nice Christmas and New Year in Canada with snowboarding and tango. Just a few impression.

DongXi

aluka — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:20:10 +0000

东西 is on of my favorite Chinese double character. With a little change of pronunciation the meaning change from ‘East-West’ to ‘things’. Is a typical example about to logic in Chinese language.

Sextant – Geoinformation with Solaris

aluka — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:02:31 +0000

Solaris (and his siblings like OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana) is a feature rich and reliable enterprise OS. The features including

Role based access management
ZFS – an advanced file system tightly connected with volumen and boot management
Timeslider – backup management
Zones – a lightweight container virtualization

I’m using it at server, workstation as well as on my laptop.

The task is to provide an open-source geoinfrastructure, including spatial database and middleware.

Welcome

aluka — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:25:41 +0000

This is the blog of Andreas Luka. A landscape designer working in Beijing, the capital of China. You will find soon a part of my design portfolio here, and I like to share my knowledge and experience in the world of GIS and CAD, organizing workflow between GIS, CAD and visualization software.

Sextant is the part especially with Geoinfrastructure on Solaris-like systems.

Beside my professional life I like to share my experience as 老外（laowai – foreigner) and tango dancer in Beijing.