Die Konfiguration basiert jetzt z.B. vollständig auf einer Yaml-Datei, wobei es nicht nur möglich ist verschiedene Profile in einer Datei zu verwalten und via Kommandozeilenparameter auszuwählen, es können auch für jedes Modul eigene Konfigurationsabschnitte erstellt werden und die auszugebende Genauigkeit lässt sich bezüglich 3er Möglichkeiten Stufen einstellen (Fehler/Bemerkungen/langweiliges Zeug anzeigen, jeweils ja/nein).

Facts lassen sich dank SQLite-basierender Datenhaltung erheblich flexibler und mit mehr Zusatzdaten speichern und abrufen. Eine gute Nachricht für alle die schon immer Facts nach Autoren, Textschnipseln suchen oder Informationen zu Ursprungszeit und -Channel erhalten wollten.

Newsfeeds lassen sich "blättern". Es ist also zusätzlich zu den von Free-Chao gewohnten Funktionen (Zeige mir die letzten N Einträge an) auch Einträge Von-Bis anzeigen zu lassen. Die Maximalanzahl der auf einen Schlag Einträge wird dabei (via Yaml) vom Admin vorgegeben. Auch wird endlich nichtmehr nur Atom als Format unterstützt sondern auch stinknormales RSS.

Natürlich fehlen noch viele wichtige Funktionen. Profmakx arbeitet z.B. zur Zeit am !date-Kommando (Diskordianische Datumsberechnungen). Doch für ein reines Spaßprojekt finde ich die Geschwindigkeit der Entwicklung bislang nicht schlecht.

Aktuelle Neuigkeiten, ein SVN-Repository, Wiki, Issue-Management und vieles weitere findet ihr immer aktuell auf der Projektseite.

Neue Mitarbeiter sind natürlich auch immer Willkommen. ;-)

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Just connect BSNL DataOne Broadband and you are ready to do Sa Re Ga Ma ... Voice of India

En mi XUbuntu (todavía necesito las X para alguna cosilla, aunque estoy en proceso de quitarme) voy a instalar un servidor casero de CVS para mis cosillas. Voy a utilizar CVS porque es lo que más domino, aunque pretendo migrar a Subversion o Git más pronto que tarde. Cuando suceda, tendréis el correspondiente tutorial.

Lo primero que he hecho es instalar cvsd (es un recubrimiento a cvs para aumentar algo la seguridad), lo que nos instala cvs como dependencia. Durante la instalación nos pregunta los repositorios que queremos publicar mediante cvsd, aunque esto lo podemos modificar luego en el archivo cvsd.conf (en /etc/cvsd), más concretamente con las líneas que comienzan por Repos.

Para crear un repositorio (lógicamente los que le hemos indicado durante la instalación) utilizamos el comando init de cvs. Explicaros que cvs desde línea de comandos tiene la siguiente estructura:

cvs [cvs-options] cvs-command [command-options] [command-args]

El comando init inicializa un repositorio (lo ejecutaremos como root o mediante sudo). Mediante la opción -d le indicamos la ruta al repositorio.

cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/tcymu init

Esto crea el repositorio en la ruta especificada, lo que podemos comprobar mirando el contenido de /var/lib/cvsd/tcymu. Observaremos el directorio CVSROOT con contenido propio del servidor CVS.

Ahora añadimos un usuario a nuestro repositorio (de nuevo como root):

cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/tcymu +tcymu

Nos pide un password, que será el que utilizaremos para entrar posteriormente. Lo almacena (cifrado por supuesto) en /var/lib/cvsd/tcymu/CVSROOT/passwd.

Bien, ya tenemos preparado el CVS. Si tenemos un firewall activado, debemos recordar abrir los puertos correspondientes: 2401 por defecto.

Y ahora y desde línea de comandos (es decir, que así podemos trabajar tanto en Linux como en Windows) podremos identificarnos en CVS mediante el comando:

cvs -d :pserver:user@server:/repository login

Hay que notar que la opción -d sólo es necesaria si no tenemos definida una variable de entorno CVSROOT. Por lo tanto si trabajamos con un único servidor CVS pues lo más cómodo es añadir dicha variable de entorno.

Una vez identificados en CVS el primer paso sería añadir un directorio al CVS, ya que de momento nuestro repositorio está vacío. Creamos un directorio local que albergará nuestro proyecto CVS y dentro de ese directorio ejecutamos:

cvs -d :pserver:user@server:/repositoryco -l .

Notaremos que se nos ha creado una carpeta CVS que contiene los archivos necesarios para mantener el estado de nuestra imagen del CVS.

Ahora ya podemos empezar a trabajar en nuestro proyecto de la forma habitual. Crearemos archivos, los añadiremos, haremos commit y demás. El trabajo habitual con CVS queda para una entrada futura, aunque no faltan precisamente recursos en la red.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

In the last 48 hours I performed the installation of a large ftp/stp/ssh server; everything works ok except that, for some obscure reasons, I cannot deny to a connected user the access of the directories' list; I've tried PureFtpd, Vsftpd, Proftpd and all the instructions related to chrooting an user by adding commands in the various configuration files...Don't know why but it didn't work!!It never happened before...So I think about another solution and...Voilà, ultrafast Ubuntu server with Proftpd and the hi-power of scponly:

1 - Install a Ubuntu server (preferably 8.04 or 8.10, for immediately install ssh server during the first process)

2 - Make a user during installation and leave all other settings by default

3 - Give to your server a static ip (sometimes ifconfig sucks, just in case install webmin and change the network from it using your browser) and do a sudo apt-get update

4 - Let's do sudo apt-get install scponly

5 - Immediately reconfigure the software for the chroot version with sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow scponly and answer "YES" to the menu

6 - Go to /usr/share/doc/scponly/setup_chroot and sudo gunzip the .gz file inside the directory

7 - Do sudo chmod + x setup_chroot.sh and launch it with sudo ./setup_chroot.sh

8 - Follow the instructions and add a totally new user (choosing the home and the incoming directory, the only one where the user can write!)

9 - Do sudo apt-get install proftpd and configure it by editing the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf (google for the configuration, but it's sufficient to edit the name of the server, uncomment "DefaultRoot" and few others) and let's restart it with sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd restart

10 - Log in with some sftp client like Filezilla to the hostname on port 22 with the username and password of the scponly user. Voilà, you see few directories, you cannot go anywhere and the only interesting thing is to up/down to the incoming dir;-)

The Mega Man of Star Force 3 web site has been updated with news about the noise forms, it's pretty much what we already know about except there cool images to go with it. Click HERE to go to the Satellite Server and view the forms above! When you go there and click the image that you see above, click on one of the forms, when you do you are brought to the Noise form information screen, there you can click on different Noise forms, and each Noise form has 10 different mixed Noise forms.(PLUS there are 51 Noise forms per version, so 51 + 51 = a Grand total OF 102!!)

Well these list the forms and which version they belong to, pretty cool so it's now for your eyes to believe, in case anyone has had confusion between which form belongs to which version.

This is how to mix the forms, it works pretty much like last time, you use a brothers card in battle with a form you already have and you will gain new powerful forms, above Mega Man gains the Widespread attack after transforming with a second noise form.

Now for the Wallpaper, featuring Mega Man and the Noise Forms:

1600 X 1200

1280 X 960

1024 X 768

Ah well that is it for now, will post if more comes out =D.

And to see the official Japanese Mega Man of Star Force 3 site translated in English click HERE!!

Se sentirán como Neo despertando de la matrix...
No imaginan la magnitud de los temas aquí tratados.

Este brillante e inigualable documental se ha esparcido exponencialmente por la internet, sinceramente creo que es el mejor documental que he visto en mi vida.

POR FAVOR VEANLO... estoy shockeado.

Links:
1ra parte - ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE (español):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7619379823675726232

2da parte - ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (inglés):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

Saludoooos :P

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First of all, the family computer - 5-6 years old, Windows XP. It's used on a daily basis by my parents, and occasionally by myself. It seems to have become the central computer since all our DAS is connected to it, and it's the one physically closest to the router (interestingly it's also the only computer which is linked to the main router via a single cable - just about everything else is connected through an ethernet switch).

My own desktop is probably about 4 years old now and still serving me pretty well - when we bought it, a config with 1.5GB RAM and an Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz processor was pretty impressive. I use it for just about all my Windows software and it's rigorously maintained, using the likes of TuneUp Utilities and CCleaner. It's also running XP, arguably the most compatible and programmed-for OS around. I've optimised it quite heavily for performance - relatively minimal yet pleasing visual effects and faster, more efficient free software alternatives to default crapware such as foobar, Pidgin, the Mozilla suite and AVG Free.

The antithesis of my desktop, so to speak, is my Laptop: if my desktop is D, my laptop is D'. Optimisation goes straight out the window immediately as it was shipped with Vista and I was too lazy to install something decent, and besides it's a Toshiba Satellite A300 with 3GB RAM and a speedy Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor so it can theoretically cope with pretty much anything I might care to throw at it - including Vista, excluding games. I use it, obviously, for all mobile computing needs, and also as a 'programming computer' - it's the only machine at home with C#.NET installed.

The last of the regularly used computers is my Debian server - the white Compaq. An ancient machine, it boasts about 500MB RAM and a processor whose clock speed is probably best measured in tens of MHz, but it does the job of hosting a Wordpress blog with the help of the wonderful stress-reliever XAMPP.

Next to it is the Dell Optiplex workstation (WinXP), which is used for road testing software and port scanning other computers on my network using Nessus in search of security holes.

Compaq: This one runs Windows 2K and is the same model as the Debian server. I tend to use it occasionally to test software in a Win2K environment and experiment with LiveCDs.

Huge server: A wonderful piece of history, definitely worth the ~0.25 square metre of floorspace it occupies. It unfortunately has no HDD and seems to use nothing but SCSI and tape drives (oh the days of tape drives...), neither of which I possess, so only boots off liveCDs - Sabayon Mini and Knoppix are therefore its OSs of choice.

Our old computer was a Time, and was built for Windows 95. That pretty much says it all - the wires protruding from its rear end are testimony to its current function: its PSU provides DC for my electronics projects.

Toshiba Tecras used to look like this...

...and HPs used to look like this. The HP is the only computer downstairs so is used as an excuse for a home entertainment system - it just about managed to install XP so can't be all *that* bad.

And finally, the half computer: the picture really says it all. I think it was made by Time.

You may now be wondering how rich I must be to own so many computers. Allow me to surprise you - we only spent money on four of the above: my desktop, the family computer, my laptop and the old Time computer (the PSU one). Both Compaqs (including my server) and the old Dell were given to me by the school as old machines when they replaced the computers, my dad's company also threw out some machines: the huge server and the HP, and my friend also contributed 1.5 computers to my collection - the Tecra and the, erm, box of components.

This is a VERY simple attempt to show show how to create a web service in Eclipse using Axis.  There is also some client code to show how you would interact with that web service.  For some reason I had to delve into a bazillion websites and scour a million books before I could make some sort of sense of it all - so just so you don't have the same trouble - I have decided to publish it (well actually, it's so that I don't forget either).

(Using Java 1.5)

Create Basic Web Service

1. Create new Dynamic Web Project.
2. Create new Java class (call it "DoesMagic").
3. Add method like this (perhaps):

public class DoesMagic
{ 
    public String doBasicStuff(String message)
    {
        return "This is your message: " + message;
    }
}

4. Right click on class and, New -> Other -> Web Services -> Web Service, you should get a form like the one below:

This will create all the necessary files to be able to publish your class as a web service.  If you want you can also create a client automatically by moving the slider - but what it generates may be hard to understand at first glance, so I have written a simple example of client code (see later on...).

5.  In order to run the web service - just,  Run as -> Run on Server.  Once the web service is running and alive on Tomcat - then we should be able to use it via some client code (see next bit).

Create Basic Web Service Client

Must create a project that has all the axis.jar type stuff in the WebContent folder - this can usually be made by generating a client application via the above wizard - you don't have to use all the auto generated classes to access your web service, just do the following:

1.  Create a new Java Class - call it TestClient.

2.  Make it a main class, and enter the following code:

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.client.Service;

public class TestClient {

public static void main(String [] args)
{   
    try{
       String endpoint = "http://localhost:8080/TestWebService/services/DoesMagic";
       Service service = new Service();

       Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
       call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
       call.setOperationName( new QName("http://testPackage.fc.com", "doBasicStuff") );
       String ret = (String) call.invoke( new Object[] {"Hello World"} );
       System.out.println(ret);
       }
       catch(Exception e){
           System.err.println(e.toString());
       }
}
}

3. As you can see I have highlighted in red the main bits you have to change.  Go to your web service project you made before and look at the source code for the wsdl file that has been created.  It's in the folder WebContent -> wsdl.  Inside there you will find a wsdl that is the same name as your class.

4. You need to look at the wsdl and find the endpoint - which looks similar to:

"http://localhost:8080/TestWebService/services/DoesMagic"

and you need to get the namespace and the method name you want to invoke  (as shown above, should be in a very similar format).

5. In this case, when we get to the point that the call.invoke command is being issued it is casting the result to a String and we are sending in a String called "Hello World" - this should create a message in the console like "This is your message: Hello World".

6. To test the class, just run the project as a Java Application and you should see the result in the Console printed out.

Conclusion

This is not indepth - this may not even be 100% correct, but it just gives you a taste of what can be achieved - it's up to you now to read up more on Java Web Services.  Good luck !

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Nachdem ich vor fast 2 Wochen bereits die ersten 3 Platten mit Glasfaser und Kunstharz laminiert habe (und das ganze jeweils mit einer Schicht Alufolie überzogen hab), musste ich leider feststellen dass nicht nur das Glasfasergeflecht zu knapp bemessen war sondern auch der Kunstharz gerade mal für die Hälfte reichte.

kurzer Einwurf: Bezüglich Glasfaser bei ähnlichen Projekten auf keinen Fall das Wirr gewobene Zeug kaufen, das lässt sich schlechter verarbeiten. Gleichmäßigere Glasfasergeflechte bieten oft einen stärken Halt, lassen sich also besser zurechtschneiden fusseln beim Verarbeiten weniger und kleben auch nicht permanent am Pinsel.

Da Kunstharz aber alles andere als billig ist habe ich mein ganzes Projekt nochmal ziemlich über den Haufen geworfen. Hätte ich noch eine Packung gekauft, wäre ich bereits fast bei den Gesamtkosten für ein fertiges Gehäuse angekommen. Als neues Material habe ich diesmal nur Aluminiumfolie verwendet.

Davon habe ich sehr lange Bahnen zu dicken Platten zusammengeknüllt (je wirrer und fester verwoben umso besser), diese flachgedrückt und mit weiteren 1-2 Schichten umwickelt (um eine ebene Oberfläche zu erhalten.)

Diese neuen Platten sind nicht ganz so steif wie die Kunstharzplatten, aber ich hoffe mal es reicht um das Eigengewicht zu tragen. Verbinden werde ich die Platten im übernächsten Arbeitsschritt mit Heiskleber, wodurch sich auch weitere Festigkeit an den Rändern ergeben sollte. Löcher und Ausschnitte werden ebenfalls mit Heisleim umfasst um ein weiteres Aufdröseln der Schichten zu vermeiden.

Für den nächsten Schritt ist erstmal geplant diese Löcher zu bohren, dabei könnte es sinnvoll sein die Platten zwischen zwei feste Pappschichten einzuspannen.

Für die Laufwerksaufhängungen habe ich jetzt auch eine Idee, ich werde dicke Schienen aus Alufolie knüllen. Natürlich sollen nicht die ganzen Laufwerke komplett umfasst werden um eine Luftzirkulation zu gewährleisten.

Bisher habe ich bereits eine volle 30m-Rolle an Folie verwendet, das fällt aber im Gesammtpreis wirklich fast nicht auf.

Das Endprodukt soll weiterhin als Abschluss mit Silberfarbe angesprüht werden, bisher sieht die Oberfläche durch die Folie allerdings bereits ziemlich gut aus, so dass dies evtl. nicht so dringend ist.

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Hyper-V can be realized on the ability of the main ones being: server consolidation, business continuity and disaster recovery, testing and development, dynamic data center, improve the structure of a new, broad operating system support for symmetric multi-processor support, network load balancing , Scalable capacity, rapid migration, scalability, and so constitute the key to its function. In 2007 compared to the relatively hot WMware, first of all I think its virtualization architecture is different aspects of security beyond. Hyper-V micro-kernel architecture, Hypervisor running on the bottom of the highest-level privileges, Microsoft called the ring -1, the virtual machine operating system kernel and drivers running in ring 0, the application is running in ring 3, the use of This architecture does not need the use of BT technology complex, so security has been further enhanced.

Hyper-V due to the different location throughout Virtualization in the process of having its own unique characteristics. Any product has been approved by the main power source from the product itself, which does not contain third-party drive to streamline the structure, its structure is simple and compact, easy-to-familiar with the source code to simplify it easy for the staff to use the UE, the virtual machine with hardware-level conversion between Little more to make full use of hardware resources and hardware to support the upgrading of its multi-support system, and so is its advantage to catch up with the root causes of the former.

1) Install apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache<version>-common apache2-mpm-worker

The version I'm using is 2.2. To not bother about version numbers and dependencies, install apache2 using Synaptic Package Manager

2) Open your browser and type

http://localhost/

It should display the page index.html located in /var/www/, with a message "It works!" Proceed only this step is successful.

3) Create a new user, say, myserver

sudo adduser myserver

This step is necessary because you have to give apache2 access to folders /home/, /home/user/ and a folder called /home/user/public_html/. It is prudent to use a dummy user like myserver instead of yourself.

4) Create a folder called public_html/ in /home/myserver/

sudo mkdir /home/myserver/public_html/

Create your web page and put it in this folder under the name index.html (apache2 searches for an .html file with this name). If you want to host a directory, simply put the directory here.

5) Give apache access permissions to this folder hierarchy

sudo chmod -R 775 /home/myserver/

To make editing of the .html files easier (so that you don't need to use sudo everytime) change the myuser/ hierarchy in your group, before running the above sudo chmod command. (I'm not sure how safe this is, though)

sudo chgrp -R your_group_name /home/myserver/
sudo chmod -R 775 /home/myserver/

6) Enable user directory module in apache

sudo a2enmod userdir

Now the files userdir.conf and userdir.load will be created in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ folder. Some websites suggest creating a link in the mods-enabled/ folder to the same files kept in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ folder (instead of using a2enmod) but I read that this method could be less safe.

7) Open the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and add the following line to it

ServerName localhost

Later on, 'localhost' can be replaced with the actual name of your site.

8) Restart the server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload


(I don't know if this is a bug, but sometimes, just restarting or force-reloading doesn't cause the changes made to be registered)

9) Open your browser and test the server with:

http://localhost/~myserver/

It displays either the /home/myserver/public_html/index.html file, if it exists, or displays the public_html/ folder hierarchy.[2]

10) Next steps include port forwarding in your router, changing listening port (if required), registering in a DNS site like dyndns.com, fiddling around with a few more settings and you have a web site! This, for later, in this post.

[1] This was done on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron

[2] In case its still not working, go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available/, make a backup of the file default. Open this file with a text editor with root permissions.

sudo cp default default.OLD
sudo gedit default &

The default directory where apache searches for your web page is in /var/www/. We change this default directory to /home/myserver/public_html/ at two places, as highlighted below:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /home/myserver/public_html/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/myserver/public_html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

Now restart the server as in step 8), open your browser and test the server with:

http://localhost/

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I made a exhaustive research and figured out that each Who is server maintains a list of certain domain types. For example,  Whois.net can whois only .COM, .NET and .ORG domains.

Many posts over the internet, including blogs.msdn.com,  also says that to query a who is database one should connect to the whois server through a TCP/IP conenction (usually via port 43).

All the above issues make Whois action fairly difficult to perform. Luckily, today I came across a very nice web site which provides a Whois SOAP web service.  To see the details of the service check this link:

http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?op=GetWhoIS

This web service searches all the who is databases to look up the domain name you provide. Therefore, you will not need to search several who is databases.

To Whois a domain name, you should pass a 'hostname' parameter to the service:

http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?Hostname=Microsoft.com

You can use this web service simply via a GET or a POST method as well as making a reference to it via Visual Studio and call its GetWhoIS metho. As I mentioned in the previous post (about REST web services), I prefer to get the who is answer using XElement.Load method. For example we may write the following method for whoising:

public static string WhoIs(string hostname)
{
XElement WhoisResult = XElement.Load(

"http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx/GetWhoIS?HostName=microsoft.com");
return WhoisResult.ToString();
}

Each Who is server returns a different response. Therefore, to develop a method which indicates wheather a domain name exits or not, we should look for a common string value in the WhoIS response. For example the 'NAME SERVER' seems to be a common string. There fore, a domain lookup function can be written this way:

public static bool IsDomainTaken(string hostname)
{
return WhoIs(hostname).ToUpper().Contains("NAME SERVER");
}

As I told you, this web service seems to query several WhoIS server, thus the GetWhoIS method is a little bit time consuming.

P.S. Try to Whois Microsoft.com, the result is pretty funny:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

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Bye for now.

Según comenta, en una entrevista en Computerworld, Brion Vibber, CTO de Wikimedia Foundation Inc. han tomado la decisión de usar Ubuntu Server en sus 400 servidos como medida para simplificar el mantenimiento.
Hasta ahora estos servidores, que según la conferencia de Julio en la Biblioteca de Alejandria, proveen 10.000.000.000 de páginas al mes de las distintas web del grupo entre ellas Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinoticias, estaban utilizando varias versiones de Red Hat Linux y de Red Hat Fedora, y a pesar de tratarse de una organización sin animo de lucro, los gastos en hardware hasta ahora han sido de 1 millon y medio de dolares, pero usan a solo cuatro voluntarios para realizar las tareas de administración, por lo que consideran que al utilizar el mismo software en todos sus servidores esta tarea se va a simplificar.

Ubuntu, que ha tenido un evidente éxito entre los usuarios particulares, tenía dificultades para entrar en el mundo de los servidores, algo que parece que va consiguiendo poco a poco, y esta noticia es una buena muestra de ese avance, asi como la certificación por parte de Sun hace algunos meses.

fuente "en ingles":

http://arstechnica.com/

Tutti conosciamo Wikipedia, un’enorme organizzazione no-profit basata solo sulle donazioni degli utenti, ma forse non tutti sanno che ha da poco annunciato che trasporterà i suoi 400 server su una piattaforma Linux Ubuntu. La decisione è stata presa per semplificare il sistema di gestione dei server che è stata definita molto più veloce.

Da stime ufficiale rilasciate da Wikipedia Foundation si calcola che al suo apice il sito abbia ricevuto 10 Miliardi di pagine visitate al mese e nei periodi più caldi avvengono 50000 richieste HTTP al secondo! Questi sono numeri spaventosi se pensiamo che il sito è no-profit e non sono presenti banner pubblicitari; il costo della banda, dell’hosting e dei server ammonta a 35.000$ al mese e tutto viene pagato con le donazioni di migliaia di utenti al mondo.

Questo passaggio di server potrà essere molto utile a Linux che potrà far capire al mondo intero che i suoi server sono affidabili e possono garantire un’elevata banda. Se riuscirà a sfruttare bene l’occasione Linux potrà fronteggiare i “colossi” che forniscono server dedicati.

Fonte: ziogeek

I am still searching for that elusive 'server' that's going to be a little more Apple-friendly than my Windows 2003 Server machine up in the loft. The Kalyway 10.5.2 exercise was interesting but seemed stricken with some fatal flaw. It stopped responding and when I went to investigate, I discovered the machine had suffered a kernel panic. Over the course of the next hour or so, every time I rebooted, the machine had a kernel panic within 5 to 10 minutes. I'm sure that with a bit more patience and effort I could have worked through this, but as a robust system for taking backups to it wasn't looking good. Time to move on...

Enter FreeNAS.

What could be better? A free, Linux based OS that does nothing but share out disk space and that supports AFP. It's a 22Mb download - that's right, just twenty two meg. Burn the iso image to a CD, pop it in the drive and you're away. I opted to install it on one of the hard disks in my 'server' rather than repeatedly boot off the Live CD, and installation took just a couple of minutes.

The server sets itself up with a default address of 192.168.1.250 and configuration is then done by browsing to that address from another machine and using the Web GUI. Everything you need is in a very good Setup and User Guide, and if you follow this you really can't go wrong. All I had to do was provide a couple of settings, format and mount my 500Gb disk, then enable AFP and share it. This really is a clever piece of work - the Web GUI is pretty intuitive, and the OS itself has a tiny footprint, so you could run it on pretty much anything. My next job is to 'soak test' the setup by copying 400Gb or so of data to it and seeing how it performs over the next few days.

My only advice is to think carefully about what file system to use when formatting your data disks. FreeNAS defaults to it's own 'UFS' scheme. That's no problem in itself, except that should the worst ever happen and you need to transfer your disks to another machine, you might be stuck being able to read the disks unless you can install FreeNAS on the new host. FreeNAS does allow you to use FAT32, EXT2 or even SoftwareRAID, although a bit worryingly there's a warning on the Disk Format screen that says:

UFS is the NATIVE file format for FreeBSD (the
underlying OS of FreeNAS). Attempting to use other file formats such as
FAT, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, or NTFS can result in unpredictable results,
file corruption, and loss of data!

Possible file corruption is really something I'd rather avoid if it's all the same to you.