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Les Conteneurs Linux
Aug 2nd
Petite révolution dans la demeure, je vais encore chambouler notre architecture domestique. En effet, puisqu’aujourd’hui je travaille exclusivement dans mon garage (le vieux rêve que voilà -;), je n’ai plus le courage d’éteindre la bête de course qui me sert de poste de travail. Du coup, le petit serveur miniITX a perdu sa raison d’être et l’envie m’a pris de la virtualiser sur la grosse bête. Quoi de plus logique au fond, tant qu’à consommer des watts, autant que cela soit le plus rentable possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Moving Backuppc Data Dir
Jun 11th
Tech Recipe for Backuppc
I will explain briefly how to move the Backuppc __TOP_DIR__ to another disk. The main reason of this long data processing is the performance improvement. I’ve tried several Filesystems and different under layer block device ( RAID5, RAID10) alwaysover LVM.
For the moment the best seems to be RAID10 with 32K chunksize and a reiserfs filesystem mounted with (notail,noatime) options.
The backup speed is not that much faster than on ext3 filesystem, but the main advantage of Reiserfs is that compare to ext3 the disk usage is reduced from 34G in ext3 to 27G in Reiserfs.
The next step will be to test Btrfs performance but for that I first need to migrate from kernel 2.6.18 to 2.6.28 or higher 
So let start the recipe Read the rest of this entry »
WebDAV CGI
May 12th
… is a Perl CGI script that enables the WebDAV protocol (class 1,2,3) for web server. If you need correct permissions for files and folders you can install this WebDAV CGI script and a UID/GID wrapper. The Apache module mod_dav does not support UID/GID wrapping, so this implementation fills up this gap as a (most complete) replacement.
Apache Web SVN Repository
Mar 4th
Tutoriel : Apache – SSL – Subversion
Cet article va détailler comment paramétrer Apache et Subversion en HTTPS. C’est pas bien méchant, on y retrouve les grandes étapes indispensables :
Création d’un dépot
Créer un nom de domaine sécurisé (Apache+SSL)
Relier les deux avec libapache2-svn (webdav)
Régler les droits d’accès sur le dépot.
Compiz Dev build howto
Mar 1st
WARNING: GIT IS BEING RESTRUCTURED
Compiz is undergoing major changes and this guide may not work with the git sources. For the time being, please use the source tarballs (.tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files) from the compiz releases link below. Thanks, Compiz Support Team
A guide outlining how to install current master can be found here.
Xandros EeePC fastinit X11Session
Mar 1st
File launching the EeePC Xorg Session
after system fastinit xandros launch the graphic session by calling this cript
<strong>/usr/bin/x-session-manager</strong><strong><br></strong>
Probleme de VFS lock sync sur le montage NFS
Compiz Memories of the Way Windows Were
Oct 2nd
Hack and / – Memories of the Way Windows Were
November 1st, 2008 by Kyle Rankin
Still arranging windows by hand? Learn how to take advantage of Compiz’s window memory, so it can do the work for you.
I’m a half-organized person. On one hand, if something of mine has a place, I can be pretty anal about making sure I put it back every time I use it. On the other hand, if something doesn’t have a place, it inevitably ends up in a pile or a junk drawer. I’ve learned that if I want to be organized, I must give everything a home.
Customizing the Gnome menus with Gnome 2.0 in Solaris 9.
Aug 6th
Customizing the Gnome menus with Gnome 2.0 in Solaris 9.
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Corrections to Solaris document 817-3851 “Gnome 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating
Environment Systems Administration Guide” chapter 2, “Customizing Menus”.
So you have installed Solaris 9 with Gnome 2.0 on some 150 machines and now you
would like to customize the Applications menu to list your specific applications.
Every single pathname in that chapter is wrong and is pretty useless in actually attempting
this task, though I do make the assumption through the rest of this post that you have read
it.
Merging Unionfs on Eeepc
Apr 8th
Merging changes from partition 2 into partition 1
samo on altern.org jan-2008: it is possible to do the above even after heavy changes are done to the original filesystem – i.e. lots of work, package additions/removals etc (not at all virgin state) – and still get everything right (and keep the original partition/filesystem instead of making all new). Roughly the steps are as follows (requires some unix skills. Read this entire section before starting and ensure you know what you’re doing):
VESA FrameBuffer Kernel documentation
Apr 3rd
Vesafb.txt : “kernel source Documentation”
What is vesafb?
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This is a generic driver for a graphic framebuffer on intel boxes.
The idea is simple: Turn on graphics mode at boot time with the help
of the BIOS, and use this as framebuffer device /dev/fb0, like the m68k
(and other) ports do.
This means we decide at boot time whenever we want to run in text or
graphics mode. Switching mode later on (in protected mode) is
impossible; BIOS calls work in real mode only. VESA BIOS Extensions
Version 2.0 are required, because we need a linear frame buffer.
