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Reading from my blog you should know by now that I am a Linux lover ; probably the biggest Linux lover I know. But then again when pure evil hits you in the face and begs you to be a simpler desktop user because you can achieve more by doing less… Then you really start to think ; Does desktop computing get any easier than a MAC?
This is a complete walk through of installing Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server with the use of software RAID1 which is configured prior to the installation of your system. Sometimes RAID with SATA drives are usually referred to as Fake-RAID or O/S dependent RAID. Indeed this is not a viable solution to some practical applications but this can save a lot of needless hassle and let us not forget that the overhead related to software RAID is nothing compared to today’s processing resources. I will guide us through the configuration generically on your system hardware to enable SATA RAID , the configuration of the partitions , the RAID and I will then discuss a few issues that could occur in a Linux-Software-RAID setup.
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This is my desktop. My Linux desktop. Not the crappy vista stuff. The beautiful open source super duper desktop. I have screenshots with many different moods and actions. Enjoy but most of all understand that Linux is the solution to the problem described as the constraints of a commercial closed-source desktop. No freedom , no glory.
A while back I had a VPN which had to be implemented a little different to how we would traditionally set them up using crypto maps and corresponding access lists. Those of you out there that have implemented VPNs this way know that there is an overhead called hassle when something goes wrong with these VPNs. Nobody likes looking at debug outputs. So I implemented it using tunnel interfaces between the sites and it all worked out very nice. The flexibility that was born gave me options that can be implemented further in a lot more ease.
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So you have your password saved in your firefox browser but do not remember it so you can use it elsewhere. That pretty much makes you feel frustrated don’t you ? I am sure your about to google the hell out of a password revealer or some sort of other application to retrieve your password from your browser. Don’t!
Recently I had an issue with the titled blacklist. I didn’t feel that I had done anything to be blacklisted as spam nor do I have any hidden tendancies tlo send unsolicited email in any way. To add to that , I do not have a virus either , I am a Linux user for your information. After investigating I had found many interesting things about this blacklist which I would like to share with you.
Continue reading ‘Do not use the “BLARS.ORG” DNSBL!’
You really cannot beat this. My next puter has to be a mac. This is Apple’s fine humor and minor kicks n sticks for a better o/s 
I am actually considering taking all exams (4 of them) in 1 day. Ive been studying for 10 hours daily for two weeks now. Don’t any of you dare to say I can’t do it. I will…because I can.
Mario
I’ve always been a very liberal child being allowed to do as I please , make mistakes and so on. One thing my parents (especially my father) made clear is that it is human to make stupid mistakes with no driven logic to the thoughts that caused them and that in the case of advice , the best advice is from a person that would offer it unconditionally and backed up with love. This is something that has given me great inspiration during the times , since a teenager up until this very day.
According to Charlie Greer “the National Science Foundation put out some very interesting statistics (…) the average person thinks about twelve thousand thoughts per day. A deeper thinker (…) puts forth fifty thousand thoughts daily.” Many years ago it has been less than that (around a tenth of what it is today) and that is probably due to increased interaction , population and in general human social development. Continue reading ‘Human imperfection - fear’
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