Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 69

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Patrick tells about his experience moving from LVM to RAID.Now, why do this? I have two machines set up with LVM-based mirroring, and they work like a charm - I even think they work with better flexibility than setting it up in a RAID-controlled way, as each of the partitions in a volume group can be easily set to use (or stop using) the mirroring independently, and the requisite of having similar devices (regarding size) also disappears. Of course, this flexibility allows you to do very stupid things (such as setting up a mirror on two areas of the same...

After many years of successfully dodging doing any serious programming in PHP, I had to get my feet wet with PHP for my RL job: I was requested to develop a simple but non-trivial module for our Institute’s Drupal-based webpage. It basically meant two and a half weeks devoted to head-scratching: I had read the very good John van Dyk’s Pro Drupal Development book, and knew it would be an important resource were I to face writing a module or work on a theme beyond the most basic stuff… So I checked it out of the library, and started basically...

<p>El pasado 2 de junio, participé en el foro «Software Libre en México, reflexiones y oportunidades», organizado por la Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología del Senado de la República. En este foro tocamos cuatro temas principales (Educación, gobierno, industria y sociedad).<p> <p>Si bien el objetivo explícito central del foro fue presentar ante los legisladores y medios interesados tanto los puntos de vista que tenemos los activistas del software libre como las historias de éxito, los avances y problemas con que nos hemos encontrado en los ya más de quince años que llevamos de existencia en nuestro país, posiblemente lo más...

It’s still early and few people have shown up in the lower hacklab. DebConf 11; Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia i Herćegovina. Photo by Robert “Blars” Larson

Left to right: Me, Stefano Zacchiroli (Debian Project Leader), Moray Allan and Holger Levsen. Photo by Robert “Blars” Larson.

Cineast and Free Culture activist Nina Paley wrote some days ago a rantifesto on why the FSF has a double standard: Why are the Freedoms guaranteed for Free Software not guaranteed for Free Culture?, by not following its own very strict rules on software when it comes to culture as a whole. Her post was widely circulated, and got (at least) one reply by fellow Debian Developer Wouter Verhelst, largely agreeing with her, and an anti-rantifesto by Joe Brockmeier — Which was promptly answered again by Wouter with a very fun and inspired post, written from the right angle: From...

<h3>Software libre</h3> <p>Cada vez es más común escuchar el concepto <em>software libre</em> en medios destinados a la sociedad en general, y ya no sólo ante quienes nos dedicamos al cómputo. Pero no teman — En el presente texto, abordaré el tema enfatizando en él en tanto movimiento social, enfocándome en cómo ha comenzado a influir en la sociedad toda. <p>Desde un punto de vista meramente técnico, puede llamarse <em>software libre</em> a todo programa que no imponga un licenciamiento restrictivo a sus usuarios — Todo programa que nos permita utilizarlo con cualquier fin, comprender cómo está hecho (tener acceso a su...

We are few weeks away from the start of DebConf11. Excitement runs high in Debian-land. The two most worthy weeks of the year, every year, loom close. Our Bosnian friends have done a great job of finding and defending an amazing proposal, and are now facing the hard work and permanent adrenaline levels of being in charge of the closest I have seen to a herd of (well-behaved but wild and untamable) cats. I have organized DebConf in my country. It was hellish, but at the same time, it’s one of my most cherished experiences. And I’m sure the same...

Umh, so Google created yet-another-beta-service with yet-another-invite-only stage. Whee! And this time they choose a name yet more stupid to their previous attempts (Wave, Buzz — now it’s simply Google+). And yes, some of my friends have mailed me invites (or offered them to me by chat) so I can join the fun and love, and lose the few free time I still have. Guys, I care about you. I even love you all! But no, I don’t care the least for so-called-social-network invites. I am quite a mess managing my time as it stands. And I cannot reply this...