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The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

Online LUN expansion and partition resizing without reboot under Linux

If you are in the need of expanding the LUN where your Linux is installed without rebooting the server, then may be that here you can find the right answer. Your Linux must be sufficiently recent to support features like LVM version 2, ext3 on-line resizing and so on.

My setup in tihs test is the [...]

HOWTO Mysql Master Slave Resync

If you are using the nice master-slave replication feature of MySQL (available since early version 3.x if I remember well), it may happens that the slave may get out of sync for various reasons.
One typical error is like this:
090908 12:58:48 [ERROR] Error reading packet from server: Client requested master to start replication from impossible position [...]

Simple IPV4 to IPV6 address converter

A dirty 2 shell lines trick to convert a static IPV4 address in the corresponding IPV6:

ipv4=$( ip ad sh eth0 | grep “inet ” | awk ‘{print $2}’| sed -e ‘s/\/.*//’)
printf “2002:%02x%02x:%02x%02x::1″ `echo $ipv4 | tr “.” ” “`

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Shiretoko IS Firefox, it’s only a User Agent issue

On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
but the Ubuntu Mozilla Team has decided to rebrand it as Shiretoko, and this seems to break some sites which relies on the User Agent string. Using the User Agent Switcher add-on for Shiretoko, ops… Firefox, is a [...]

Google Patents World’s Simplest Home Page

Google Patents World’s Simplest Home Page

The first patent request was made on 2004, and now the Google Home Page has received a patent for “Graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal”. Is Bing already violating this patent?

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