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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 Even the kernel docs are outdated.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: Appfirst with SELinux enabled

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 …


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 …


LemonPOS: Cómo instalarlo en Fedora 16

Edición 20120608: En Fedora 17, ya está en los Repos. Solo basta un yum -y install lemonpos

Un bato (Alejandro), me dijo que quiere instalar LemonPOS y que, éste, está chido.

Me doy cuenta de que lo hace un Mexicano! Ajuá!A webo! Y que está en pinche C++! Mejor …