December 13, 2015
Few days ago, on November 23, we have had a Fedora 23 release party in Milan, as we announced in the wiki.
This time we did something different from the previous one (the Fedora 21 release party) because we tried to do it in Milan, while the previous time we did it in Cernusco sul Naviglio that is a city very close to Milan.
The number of people that participated at the event was below expectation, but probably this is not only caused by the more central location, but also the limited planning time we had due to the location that has been provided to us by StartMiUp, a coworking space.
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March 21, 2015 - Settala, IT
Today ViGLug organized the “Elettronica Libera” (free, as-speech, electronics) event in Settala.
In the morning, we had many sessions, and the focus was more on the general public and promoting those ideas with non-expert people.
In the morning, many topics were covered, such as the various boards available, Linux, and the open-source software around them.
In the afternoon, the focus moved to more advanced topics, such as GPIO, OpenWrt, the networking bits, as well as a hands-on session.
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March 21, 2015 - Settala, IT
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November 3, 2014 - Melzo, IT
In Italy every year, during the last weekend of October, there is the Linux Day, an “open day” for the LUGs where they create events to publicize GNU/Linux and the Free Software.
As usual (for the last 5 years now), the ViGLug organized it’s event and this time has been in Melzo, a city less than half hour drive east from Milan.
We had a very nice event with more than 50 new people coming to learn about Linux and its wonderful world.
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April 2, 2014
I usually don’t start with this, but lately I had some time constraints that made me wondering if is right to use so much time reading books. The Wireshark Field Guide Analyzing and Troubleshooting Network Traffic by Robert J. Shimonski is only 149 pages long (if we cut the introduction, indexes, etc. it boils down to 128 pages). This is a really short book and I have really appreciated this fact. Wireshark is a very useful and powerful tool, but many people do not need to know everything about it. If you need to know everything about wireshark, the best option is to download the source and read it, but this is not the case for 99.99% of the people interested in Wireshark.
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February 14, 2014
The Debian Technical Committee questioned which direction they should go concerning which PID1 to use in the last couple of weeks.
Ian Jackson, former Debian Project Leader and currently standing in the Debian Technical Committee, asked to vote on the 5th of February on the matter.
Against Ian’s preference, the result of the vote is that Debian will use systemd as the default PID1.
The result is a very narrow one since it was 4:4 with Upstart.
The victory for systemd happened thanks to the tie-breaking vote of the Technical Committee chair, Bdale Garbee.
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September 15, 2013
In August, I passed the CompTIA LX0-101 exam and a couple of days ago the LX0-102 exam.
Together, those two exams allowed me to earn the CompTIA Linux+ certification.
I did not found the two exams too hard, and in fact, I passed both with a considerable margin.
Those two exams are multiple-choice kind of questions.
I would find a scenario-based exam more valuable since it would test actual capabilities.
Still, I understand that for basic knowledge, the multiple-choice option can be a good one.
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March 26, 2013
Ganglia is the most robust and scalable tool for performance monitor I’ve tried or heard of.
This book, written by some of the top contributor of the project, is an awesome guide to Ganglia.
Due to its organization and the authors writing style, the book is easy to understand and can be read as a “full-guide” reading it from the first page to the last one, or a reference book reading only the parts that are relevant to you in that specific moment.
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January 3, 2013
Have you ever had to develop a script in UNIX that has to send an email?
If you have, probably you have used the “mail” function since this program is the standard program to send e-mails in UNIX environments if you are using the CLI (Command Line Interface).
The manual for mail reports this as mail usage prototype:
mail -r [sender] -s [subject] receiver-1[,receiver-2,...,receiver-n] > [File with the body]
I think all the parameters are pretty straightforward except the “File with the body” one. This has to be an ASCII file (ie: .txt) with the e-mail body content in the text-only mode.
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August 10, 2012
As already mentioned in a previous post, the SCO economic situation is not one of the best ones.
After close to 10 years from SCO litigious policy against all UNIX companies and having already declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they have filled for Chapter 7.
The difference between the Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 is that Chapter 11 is a situation where the management is still confident that the company can survive after restructuring and reorganization.
Chapter 11, on the other hand, is filled when the management believes there is no way the company can survive and will therefore initiate the liquidation process.
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