Unabhängig davon, ob man gerade Zeit hat, knarzt es ziemlich im Gehirngebälk, wenn man die knackige Zusammenfassung von Michael Prokop zu dem neuen Debian Release Lenny liest. Allein die Auflistung der New Packages machen Lust auf stundenlanges Ausprobieren (wenn man Sysadmin ist, hehe). E...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse - Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful....

InfoQ: Language Parity: Closures and the JVM - In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM. Topics covered include the JVM libraries, the challenges of running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper/shim libraries, ways of making ...

Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, “today is the day that I'm finally going to backup my workstation!� only to find out that you're a day late and about 320Gb short? Well, that's about what happened to me recently, but don't worry, the story has a happy ending. I'm getti...

Devi Rispettare l'Utente E' imperativo che Tu rispetto l'Utente e i Suoi Dati. Non rubare i Suoi Mp3, non guardare il Suo Porno. Quando lavori con la Posta Elettronica, guarda senza leggere.Rispettali e Loro rispetteranno Te. Devi Dare Potere all'Utente L'Utente e' il Cliente.Il sistema non e' Tuo, ...

Ormai da anni la mia distribuzione Linux preferita e' Fedora . Quando ho acquistato Breeze infatti, non avessi avuto necessita' di una macchina Windows, e avessi avuto il dovuto tempo per cercare, informarmi, e compagnia, ci avrei messo quella. Ma all'epoca non avrei fatto cio' che ho fatto ieri. La...

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In November, Google wrote in their official blog that they had done an experiment where they had sorted 1 PB (1,000 TB) of data with MapReduce. The information about the sorting itself was impressive, but one thing that stuck in our minds was the following (emphasis added by us): An interesting ques...

“Ka-chunk... ka-chunk... ka-chunk... tick... tick... tick... Ka-chunk... ka-chunk...� That's just not a sound you ever want to hear coming from a hard drive. It's the sound of a hard drive trying to move it's read/write heads into a position that they don't seem to want to go to or its trying to...

We’ve been doing some interesting things at work, as always, with yet more people and Linux boxes.  And of the side effects of mixing people, Linux boxes, and several locations is this need for some sort of centralized logging.  Luckily we have either syslog-ng or rsyslog daemons installed o...