Bootstraped a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Lenny. I was surprised by the many candies hiding on the current Debian-Installer. In spite of the eternal and recurrent internal struggle each Debian release is way better than its predecesor; and I mean way better, not just up-to-date.
The only pitfall on the installation was grub mishandling the Sas6 arrays. [...]
Last January a new company was born promising new tools for us working at IT infraestructure automation. The name of the tool is Chef; good luck looking for it on google, chef is a keyword as common as puppet.
When i firs heard of chef i got a litle worried about the possible damages to [...]
Un problema muchas veces repetido cuando no trabajas en ingles y ASCII. No siempre se controla la codificacion que se usa en distintos entornos de trabajo y produccion; al final acaban apareciendo caracteres extraños y problemas de codificacion.
Working with many development and production some people forgets to check their default charsets; in the end encoding [...]
There’s an ongoing conversation about filesystem layouts on planet debian.
As Wouter, I find the biggest drawback to multi-filesystem layouts is lack of flexibility when resources are scarce; scarcity means laptops in the Wouter’s post. I’m thinking of long-lived servers in need of upgrades, in particular those with a life of unplanned and ad-hoc growth.
When scarcity [...]
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