Kerberos negation: Repeated password requests during a browser session

10 April, 2008 (22:55) | No comments

I’ve been fighting with this problem for two days. At work, we use kerberos to access most of our resources including internal websites with mod_auth_kerb. Using GSSAPI, your configured firefox should show the website if you’re owner of a valid ticket and prompt for a password one and only one time when you’re not. We [...]

code quality

8 April, 2008 (08:09) | No comments

Red Hat rules the kernel developement

1 April, 2008 (18:55) | No comments

Linux-foundation.org published a report about Linux kernel development. It looks like Red Hat is still in the front, having two first from the top ten coders: Al Viro and David Miller and being the top first sponsor with 10% of contribution. Good work kernel team!
Of course, I can’t forget thousands of individual community developers that [...]

GNU/Radio in Fedora

23 March, 2008 (15:56) | 1 comment

From today you can enjoy GNU/Radio in Fedora. What’s GNURadio? It’s a python-based software for deploying SDR (Software Defined Radios). One of the most popular along hardware for usage of SDRs is Universal Software Radio Peripheral, it’s just a small electronic board, quite cheap and what’s interesting, with open design.

This small board pre-process [...]

*free* DST Patch

13 December, 2007 (13:37) | No comments

SCO guys rules.

Today’s motto

12 September, 2007 (17:39) | No comments

 
“@puk: user network problems are normally layer 8″
– Sr. Network Engineer

Network Appliance is suing Sun for ZFS

6 September, 2007 (15:18) | No comments

Network Appliance is suing Sun over patents alleged to cover parts of the ZFS filesystem. The announcement comes from NetApp’s founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz’s blog. NetApp++!

Linux Terminal Performance Comparison

6 September, 2007 (15:17) | 1 comment

Martin Ankerl compares on his blog the performance of several linux terminals.
I’m happy user of gnome-terminal :)

The ext3cow File System

6 September, 2007 (15:05) | No comments

While looking for more information about ext4 filesystem, I found an interesting patch named ext3cow. It is a versioning file system based on ext3. And how it works?
[root@storm ~]# echo “Beee” > ~/kac
[root@storm ~]# snapshot
Snapshot on .: 1062987103
[root@storm ~]# echo “Meeeee” > ~/kac
[root@storm ~]# cat ~/kac@10629871034
Beee
[root@storm ~]# ~/kac
Meeeee
[root@storm ~]#
Unfortunately, due to performance and storage overhead, [...]

Unsupported rapid oxidation

6 August, 2007 (16:58) | No comments