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HowTo: Regenerate tmpfiles without restarting

Ok, I'm playing around with thin and nginx now. I am into sinatra and padrino and stuff.

So, I am creating sockets for thin so nginx can read them. I need a directory in /run

I've decided to create a directory called thin; with 2770 permissions and owner/group would …


HowTo: Cómo monto un SMB share en Fedora 18?

Bueno, hoy, en lo particular, tube un poco de problemas al querer montar mi disco duro de películas en Fedora.

No tuve problemas antes, pero, imagino, han de ser algunas ondas relacionadas con la edad de mi router TP-Link; el cual comparte mi disco duro de películas en la red …


HowTo: Como reinstalar grub2-efi @ Fedora 18

Hoy hice una actualización de EFI; antes BIOS, y se cargó a la chingada mi booteo en Fedora. Porqué? Bueno, con eso del UEFI, ahora, en Fedora (y varias otras distros), el booteo es manejado por el EFI. Hay que registrar tu booteador en el EFI.

En todo caso, batallé …


HowTo: Cómo instalar MariaDB en Fedora 17

Bueno, ahí va el cotorreo:

# te haces dios
su -

# remover MySQL a la chingada. Si tienes el plugin para remover leaves, agrega --remove-leaves
yum remove mysql*

# Instalar el repo de MariaDB
cat < < 'EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/fedora17-amd64 …

My music on Jamendo is being heard a lot!

Hey guys!

I am happy to see the stats on https://jamendo.com/. It seems that my music is being heard; which is my main objective with my music.

There is this song I hate: A lo largo. Everybody listens to that song. You know why? Because it's the first …


Fedora Configurations Repository

Oh well, I just posted a configurations repo @ Github: https://github.com/renich/fedora-configs

The idea is to provide useful configuration examples; for servers (for now). I have a lot of cleaning up to do and all but, please, feel free to contribute anything you seem might be different and …


Benchmarks: PHP, Perl, Python, Python3 and Ruby

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 …


HowTo: Use zram on Fedora 16

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 Even the kernel docs are outdated.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 …

HowTo: Removing BtrFS from a bunch of drives (BOD)

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 …

The Pirate Bay's SOPA/PIPA Press Release

INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.

PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for

the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video …