ABOUT
Name:
Németh Balázs
Job title:
System engineer
Age:
Degree:
Computer Science and Engineering
Bio:
I am 28 years old. I work as a system engineer at Balabit since February, 2010.
I am intrested in Linux/Unix systems. In my freetime I love to take photos, read books and watch good movies with friends.
And least but not last... I like beers too. :)
Kindle 4 review
Monday, December 12, 2011 @ 03:12 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Recently as I was getting closer to my birthday I decided to make myself happy and I buy a tablet. At least this was my first intention.
I was especially looking for an Android tablet but I read about iPads of course.
As usually when I am up to buy something I started to read reviews of ...
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How far are we?
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 @ 04:10 PM Author: Németh Balázs
I wanted to answer my colleague's blog post right just after he wrote that but I only had the chance recently to write about my thoughts. If you interested in the whole pre sequel of this post then you can find them just right here below....
How to install Gentoo Linux next to an Ubuntu on an encrypted disk
Monday, August 8, 2011 @ 03:08 PM Author: Németh Balázs
"Let my original aims covered by mist,
as I only wanna show you how to twist."
Well I am not a poet so please forgive me for the bad intro. :)
In this post I am going to talk about how to put Gentoo Linux next to an Ubuntu Natty system which was installed to an encrypted disk. ...
How to debug the Balabit Audit Indexer
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 04:07 PM Author: Németh Balázs
This post is going to have a more practical use than my previous posts. I am writing this as I think it is going to be useful for our customers. So let us roll.
Audit what?
Balabit's Audit Indexer is a service - running on Microsoft Windows systems - which indexes the audit trails what have been ...
A last minute blogpost about a Lenovo T410 specific kernel
Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 06:06 PM Author: Németh Balázs
I don't tell any secret by saying that I am using Ubuntu Natty on my office system which is a Lenovo T410 series system.
Why?
Recently I found out that I am unable to make WIFI connections with the standard 2.6.38 kernel while my other colleagues can. I did not care why and after some ranting about ...
Are we there yet? The Year of Desktop Linux
Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 02:06 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Before I start a flame I have to tell you that I have been using GNU/Linux systems more - ohh my - more than 8 years! I forgot to count the years but I am very sure about that I have tried UHU-LInux 1.0rcx which was released around the end of 2003 and SuSE Linux ...
Finally Zorp GPL 3.9.0 comes to Gentoo Linux
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 02:05 PM Author: Németh Balázs
It has been more than two months ago when I wrote about the updated Zorp ebuilds for Gentoo Linux. Time has passed and a lot newer version (3.9.0) with many new features has been released. Now I want to publish the ebuilds and a quick how to ...
A story about migrating a database from MySQL to PostgreSQL
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 03:05 PM Author: Németh Balázs
This story in a technological point of view is nothing more than migrating a website I had running on my personal desktop from MySQL database to PostgreSQL as it is going to be hosted on a public site from now where only PostgreSQL is available.
Fortunately changing the code of the website is not necessary as ...
Updated Zorp GPL ebuilds for Gentoo
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 02:03 PM Author: Németh Balázs
I have already written about the new ebuilds I made for [Zorp GPL] 3.3.6. so theoretically you were able to install it and use it under Gentoo Linux... or as it turned out you weren't.
Time has passed since that blogpost but recently as I wanted to actually use these ebuilds as a base for ...
Debit card security issue?
Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 01:03 PM Author: Németh Balázs
In medias res
Last summer I had an issue by using my debit card in an untrusted environment. But this post is not about this issue but rather about the questions which came to my mind. Anyway before I start it, I'd would make some sense to tell you in a nutshell what the situation was.
Last ...
Gentoo LiveDVD 2011.0 has been released
Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 01:03 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Recently a new liveDVD release was announced from Gentoo Linux. Of course this is not an IT news portal, so why do I post about it?
Well I just took the opportunity to talk about my favourite distribution and syslog-ng at the same time. Gentoo Linux is one of the oldest distribution which ships syslog-ng as ...
Going out for a concert
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 12:03 PM Author: Németh Balázs
So sorry for everyone, but February was a tough month for us so I couldn't write any blogposts here, although I had a couple of ideas to blog about. But the time has changed, now here I am again and I'll try to make it up.
First you should note that this post would not be ...
This is how I do
Thursday, January 27, 2011 @ 11:01 AM Author: Németh Balázs
I will not tell you any secret by saying I use virtual machines a lot for testing different support cases I come across. I have used virtualization before but these cases were mostly limited to trying out different Linux / Unix distributions.
Now my job has other aspects. For example if I would like to test ...
New distro ships syslog-ng-3.2.x
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 07:01 PM Author: Németh Balázs
I am happy to tell you that Gentoo Linux now contains the latest [syslog-ng] open source edition version, which is 3.2.2.
Although it is currently masked, you can easily install it with the following commands.
echo -e "\n=app-admin/syslog-ng-3.2.2" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask echo -e "\n=app-admin/syslog-ng-3.2.2" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -avu syslog-ngIt has a lot of great features, so don't forget to check ...
DIY: log classifying made easy
Friday, January 14, 2011 @ 03:01 PM Author: Németh Balázs
It's been a while since I wrote my last blogpost here. So sorry about it, it's been quite hectic here... anyway I brought you something intresting. :)
During my daily work I do a lot of [log classification] on logs provided by the customers. These logs are mostly either from our log server appliance ...
Zorp GPL comes to Gentoo Linux
Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 04:11 PM Author: Németh Balázs
I am not telling you any secrey by saying that the GPL version of Zorp Gateway as precompiled package is currently only availabe in Debian Squeeze, however since the latest GPL version was made it into public not so long ago, I was being curious about compiling and installing it under my ...
Logging your Android device into syslog-ng
Friday, November 12, 2010 @ 03:11 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Recenty I got some problems with my Android phone, which is a Samsung Galaxy Spica by the way, and I thought it might be useful to see the phone's logs but not on its small screen but on my desktop system. Suddenly I got an idea. Hey what if I can use syslog-ng to collect ...
Common mistakes… what you shouldn’t do
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10:10 AM Author: Németh Balázs
During our daily life at the support team sometimes we are facing the same issues time after time. Some of these issues could easily be tracked down to common mistakes. These mistakes are usually easy to make, but they are hard to resolve.
Let's see the most common ones
Unnecessary downgrades
Customer tries to upgrade their SSB or ...
How to boot from USB stick under Virtualbox
Monday, October 11, 2010 @ 03:10 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Did you ever try to boot an USB stick in a virtual machine under Virtualbox? Now I did.
I am building my new PC from parts and as of now all the parts are ready I wanted to create a bootable USB stick to use it to install Gentoo Linux operating system on my shiny new PC.
On ...
Houston! We need help!
Friday, October 8, 2010 @ 02:10 PM Author: Németh Balázs
Hello Dear Public!
My name is Balázs Németh and I am working as a system engineer in the Support Department of Balabit IT. This post will be my first blog with Balabit. I have been blogging since 2007, but my previous blogs were mostly personal and offtopic, and they were unfortunately deleted by the administrator of the ...