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Happy Sysadmin Day

karkoma — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:37:30 +0000

One year again, today is the 11th SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Happy day to all of you!

10 years of OpenSSH

karkoma — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:51:28 +0000

Thank you to everyone that has contributed to OpenSSH over its lifetime. It has made our life as Sysadmins a bit easier.

The version 5.3 has been released and marks the 10th anniversary of this project. From OpenSSH:

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

This release marks the 10th anniversary of the OpenSSH project. We would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their support, especially those who will continue to contribute code or patches, report bugs, test snapshots or donate to the project during the next 10 years. More information on donations may be found at:

http://www.openssh.com/donations.html

DIY storage: how to build cheap cloud storage

karkoma — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:37:43 +0000

This link shows how to build your own 67 terabyte storage servers for less than $8000. On the other hand, this link provides another perspective pointing out objections about the DIY storage server.

Description of the file system hierarchy

karkoma — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:14:57 +0000

man hier

15th birthday of the Debian project

karkoma — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:00:29 +0000

On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock issued the first announcement of the Debian Project on comp.os.linux.development. Since then Debian has established itself as one of the most stable Linux distros and commited to the FOSS.

More info:

Happy Sysadmin day!

karkoma — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:03:37 +0000

Today July 25th, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Another alternative to Bind: Unbound DNS server

karkoma — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:48:19 +0000

DJBDNS, MaraDNS… and now another player in the DNS servers ground: Unbound.

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs. It is based on ideas and algorithms taken from a java prototype developed by Verisign labs, Nominet, Kirei and ep.net.

Unbound is designed as a set of modular components, so that also DNSSEC (secure DNS) validation and stub-resolvers (that do not run as a server, but are linked into an application) are easily possible.

The source code is under a BSD License.

Unbound 1.0.0 was released in May 20.

Nine Inch Nails’ new album under Creative Commons

karkoma — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:24:41 +0000

You know that this kind of post is not usual in this site but I think it worth it. According to their web site:

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options – all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

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the slip is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.

This people is really a pioneer in the music world. Congratullations to their fans.

Is Linux less costly for web infrastructure than Solaris a myth?

karkoma — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:36:17 +0000

This is an interesting point of view of Robin Goldfarb, a blogger from Sun’s blog hub. He points out why he and others from Sun consider Solaris to be less costly than Linux. Check it out!

Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB

karkoma — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:30:31 +0000

From Sun Microsystems web site:

Sun announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases. This acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market and reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

More information from Sun Microsystems, Cnet and MySQL web site.