Hello, guys,

It's been a while since I wrote anything in english. I want to share this simple benchmark with you. It is a simple one: print a message; followed by a number; one million times.

This is the perfect benchmark since it benchmarks the language itself. It does everything …

Hola,

Por si no lo sabes, postéo mis HowTos para recordar como hacer las cosas.

Hoy, recordaba lo bonito que era ir a comprar un disco que me gustaba. Me costaban de $100 a $200 pesos en ProAudio; en Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. Normalmente, no sabía qué compraba. Me iba, generalmente, por …

Ok, this one is badly documented. Even the kernel docs are outdated.

Here's how to start using zram on Fedora 16:

# get rpmfusion: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
...

# install the staging kmod
su -c 'yum install kmod-staging'

# get zram running (aha!)
su -c 'modprobe zram zram_num_devices=4'

# define the block's …

Ok, first off, I hate people that say "turn off SELinux"... man, those idiots might as well tell you to turn off your firewall and open up your servers to the world.

This sounds like a nice gesture but, in today's internet, it's a shortcut to online suicide.

Anyway, here's …

Ok, I just discovered how to remove BtrFS from a bunch of drives. It got kind of hard at first but, thanks to the #btrfs channel, I discovered how.

for device in sd{d..g}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$device bs=4k count=1 seek=16; done …