Month: July, 2008

NASA open images

28 July, 2008 (00:20) | No comments

Nasa announced the opening of their gallery at nasaimages.org with many free pictures collected over many years.

FUDCon 2008 Brno

25 July, 2008 (20:37) | 2 comments

Let me invite you all to FUDCon that will take place in Brno during September 5 – 7, 2008. You will have chance to participate to hack-fest as well to various presentations: func, FirstAidKit, Transifex, SecurityAudit, Fedora Astronomy and much more! Visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 for more information.

Sad Funda

18 July, 2008 (14:30) | No comments

Sad Kungu Funda :(

Sysadmin’s monday blues: clean your RPMs

14 July, 2008 (22:50) | 5 comments

From time to time, I need to clean my disk from useless stuff I’ve installed over time. It’s just amazing how much of packages I can install during debugging and configuring every day. If I’m short of disk space, I start first by reviewing biggest packages on my system:
[mmahut@mmahut repo]$ rpm -qa –queryformat ‘%10{size} %{name}-%{version}\n’ [...]

The website is down!

6 July, 2008 (01:23) | No comments

thewebsiteisdown.com

Save Arecibo!

6 July, 2008 (00:51) | 1 comment

Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope located in Puerto Rico, faces massive budget crises that will end its ability to continue the research. The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support. Check-out this page [...]