Solsticio de invierno

Entrada del invierno, es decir, el día más corto del año y el arco más bajo descrito por el Sol en el cielo del hemisferio norte...

Samba finally got it

Samba Team finally got the protocol documentation... as stated in "Samba Team receives MS protocol documentation

Andrew Tridgell, creator of Samba, said:

We are very pleased to be able to get access to the technical information necessary to continue to develop Samba as a Free Software project. Although we were disappointed the decision did not address the issue of patent claims over the protocols, it was a great achievement for the European Commission and for enforcement of antitrust laws in Europe. The agreement allows us to keep Samba up to date with recent changes in Microsoft Windows, and also helps other Free Software projects that need to interoperate with Windows

GMail

I've just started migrating my old mail to gmail with mutt through imap access

According to goglified about gmail space
1. 2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time
2. 4.2GB by November 23, 2007
3. 6GB by January 4th, 2008
4. 42GB by the year of 2038

You can read more about gmail storage

me@hi5

I just decided to register at hi5 to try to find friends... 27 at the moment, a way waste of time if available!!!!

betoreyez.hi5.com

Moscow Metro....

I just cant believe public places like these exists, it's definitively a pleasure to use the subway everyday....

Princess Frog

I'd warn any gril about any kind of frogs...

Please don't hurt the web

I just cant avoid posting this picture...

Restore file modes from rpm database

As usual root access gives unlimited power, but a misusage could give you a few headaches, in my case, a user change the ownership and modes in the files of almost all the filesystem, so I googled for a solution and found that the rpm database could be used to restore the files from rpms packages, you could use a command like:

rpm -qa | xargs rpm --setperms --setugids

I just love how simple a solution could get you out of troubles...

SCSI serial number

As the last post stated, I've access to a storage with many harddrives and I've to manage the serial numbers by serial number. I've RHEL2 and RHEL3 at work so I wanted to find a package from Redhat...

I found a package called sg3_utils which have a few utilities to manage scsi disk including performance test, the sginfo gives you disk information including the serial number of the disk.

Good to know that RHEL is a true enterprise distribution!!!

PV metadata

I've access to a SAN environment and due a confusion, a PV metadata was overwritten, so I decided to google for a solution and found LVM saves configuration backup at /etc/lvmconf.d/ and LVM package includes a utility to recover partial information from it. In my case, I'd to deactivate the VG and restore the PV metadata
vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf.d/myvgfile.conf.1 /dev/sdX
I'm still amused by the power and flexibility of LVM...