Software

Time is almost ripe for start using the native ZFS port on Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org/), and to increase the performances, reliability and space usage of our affordable distributed opensource storage solution.

Installing ZFS on Debian/Ubuntu is straightforward: you need first to build the SPL (Solaris Porting Layer) and after ZFS itself.

Download the latest SPL package, unpack it and build:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gawk alien fakeroot linux-headers-$(uname -r)
./configure
make deb
dpkg -i *.deb

The internet nowadays isn't a privilege, is a right. Helping the world to get full access to it, it's a must for everyone.

If you own a server, a dedicated one or a VPS (like me, on Linode) you can use your spare bandwidth to help people that live in places where internet censorship it's the standard way to deal with information.

I've setup a tor relay to help the community to maintain a fast and stable link for tor users. To get minimal harassment, that I really don't have time to deal with, I allow no exit from my node, the tor traffic will pass on my node from a node to another one.

Finally, I achieved to migrate my mini-tiny-shiny blog from the big-bug-bloat Wordpress platform to the fast-simply-powah Drupal.

For the import, I've used the wordpress_import module (if you use php5.3, check this), that use the WXR file generated by Wordpress->Tools->Export procedure.

Every feature I was used by on Wordpress, it's not lost because Drupal has a very large base of flexible modules. Here is a list of the most import modules I use on this site:

Da pochi giorni, Microsoft ha deciso di rendere noto quanto OpenOffice sia un diretto concorrente alla loro suite da ufficio, pubblicando un video di testimonianze.