Tag Archives: Debian

Some notes about configuring RAID10, LVM, KVM and virt-manager on a Debian Lenny server

Posted on 13/03/2010 by gionn

Recently I’ve achieved a good setup for a virtualized environment, using Debian Lenny as host, with a RAID10, and LVM for managing VM disk images. The server was a: CPU Intel Xeon X3430 RAM 4GB HD 4x500GB During the installation, … Continue reading →

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DNS-323

Posted on 21/02/2010 by gionn

Il DNS-323 è un NAS (disco di rete) di fascia bassa (170 euro senza dischi) con due slot SATA, l’ideale per mettere al sicuro (sempre relativamente parlando) i propri dati. Purtroppo dispositivi del genere (ma anche router/modem/acess-point), nonostante siano dei … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro 15” Debian

Posted on 12/07/2009 by gionn

Il vecchio Asus F3Jc stava esalando gli ultimi respiri, quindi onde evitare di rimanere senza pc (anche perchè lo usavo a lavoro), ho ben pensato di accattarmi un nuovo portatile. Lavorando con due mac luser (ndr: malteo e orontobate) con … Continue reading →

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Dropbox Debian – Backup, Sync, Share your files!

Posted on 25/06/2009 by gionn

As described on his site: Once installed, any file you drop into your Dropbox folder will synchronize and be available on any other computer you’ve installed Dropbox on, as well as from the web. Also, any changes you make to … Continue reading →

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Recover Linux Xandros on Eee-Box, without CDROM, without USB (the manual way)

Posted on 16/06/2009 by gionn

I don’t have an external USB CD-ROM drive, nor a live Xandros installation to build an usb recovery image. The prerequisites are: – the file named system_image.gz that is on the Recovery CD. – a live linux system (knoppix? SysRescueCD? … Continue reading →

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Git repository hosting in 5 minutes with Gitosis in Debian Lenny

Posted on 21/04/2009 by gionn

After many months experiencing with SVN, we want to try to shoot with GIT. We will use a great tool for manage our git repositories: gitosis.

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PLAIN Smtpd Auth with Postfix (faster than light)

Posted on 17/03/2009 by gionn

Ok, you have a small postfix deployed, and you need a fast but effective protection from third people using your server as a rocket-delivering-spam. The first thing to do, is to configure the variable mynetworks to allow only certain netblocks … Continue reading →

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Gambas 2.10 for Debian Lenny

Posted on 29/12/2008 by gionn

From the gambas main site No real new features in this release. But some of the fixed bugs were nasty: * Possible crashes in the IDE property sheet and while saving forms. * Crash in the debugger when selecting the … Continue reading →

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Asus eeepc 900A/901 optimized kernel 2.6.28

Posted on 27/12/2008 by gionn

I’ve decided to make a stripped vanilla kernel for debian/ubuntu after seeing that the lean kernel from array.org has practically nothing stripped out. For gaining performances, I compiled the kernel with the Core 2/Newer Xeon as Processor Family, removed every … Continue reading →

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Instructing APT to not consider recommends packages as strict dependecies

Posted on 27/12/2008 by gionn

On apt systems, there are three type of dependencies: Dependant packages Recommended packages Suggested packages The first are packages strictly needed for an application to work correctly (eg: for amsn, the tls library needed to login). The recommended packages are … Continue reading →

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