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love and responsibility

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http://vimeo.com/loveandresponsibility – concepts from Love and Responsibility explained in plain language. good stuff.

Sławomir Cenckiewicz: “Wałęsa – człowiek z teczki”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iap18N9uds8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCncSicn6I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InoLloE6Gck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qfq_stzUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiNqF1mgDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJmOqumO_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21gDYQQv1Mc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elUVHWuudsc + Semka – “za a nawet przeciw” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhJXCeEHvw + Braun – “plusy dodatnie plusy ujemne” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPS9ppqMII4
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i’m setting up some rented server. it has 2x ssd drives on which i’ll be running raid1 with mdadm with ext4. installation of debian wheezy went fine but i wanted to use fstrim to prevent write performance degradation over time. it did not work under 3.2.0 kernel giving me: after quick googling i learned that ... Read More

[pl] syria

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http://independenttrader.pl/141,syria_-_walka_o_wplywy.html http://politykawschodnia.pl/index.php/2012/10/03/wierzbicki-los-gazpromu-i-gospodarki-rosyjskiej-rozstrzygnie-sie-w-syrii/ http://geopolityka.org/syria-2012/2383-dlaczego-rosja-powinna-wspierac-assada http://narodowcy.net/europa-i-swiat/3143-kto-poprze-atak-na-syrie no i mamy dysonans poznawczy, nagle wielki brat zza wschodniej granicy okazuje sie sila stabilizujaca. a plomienni obroncy demokracji z zachodu? sponsoruja w syrii tych z ktorymi walcza w afganistanie.

hu/sk/at/cz

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a brain-dump from my recent trip to Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Czech Republic.

vmware esxi 5.1 keeping mac address after moving to a new hardware

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i had to move hard disks containing installed esxi 5.1 from one server to another. after i booted up a new server there was an unexpected surprise for me… vmware ‘kept’ the mac address assigned to the management interface from the old machine. so for a while i had duplicate mac address: legitimately on the ... Read More
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chrooted bind9 with geodns under debian wheezy

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at work we’ll soon make use of dns-based geo load balancing to have users in americas / asia ‘talk’ with north am site and rest of the world – with the european site. we preferred to avoid modifying the client application so the dns based solution seemed reasonable. below – quick overview of the setup ... Read More

cloning GPT disk to a smaller drive

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while rescuing data from server having problems with either disk or raid controller i had to clone data from 2x 1TB RAID1 to 4x 500GB RAID10. as it turned out the space available on the destination server was 1GB less than on the source machine. shrinking the source drive with gparted-live and dd’ing over the ... Read More

legitimate mail classified by amavis as

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i use amavisd-new as content filter for incoming messages. today it decided to classify a plain-text part of the message containing: as a python executable and did not deliver the message. my solution – in the config file for amavis i’ve added an exception for anything that is detected to be python scripts:

dell 2135cn – 016-317 restart printer, contact support

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i’ve bricked one of our printers. over the network upgrade of the dell 2135cn was interrupted and printer was most probably rebooted at the worst possible time – when it was flashing the new firmware. result? printer no longer responded over the network, the lcd panel displayed just: 016-317 restart printer contact support but… i’ve ... Read More

installation of debian wheezy on mdadm raid1 + gpt

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in branch offices i tend to install two identical pcs running linux and working in active – hot-spare setup. things evolved over time – one location has both routers running under vmware esxi on two different hosts, another – hardware raid, other – desktop-class pcs with single hard drives. hardware raids are good as long ... Read More

“z mocy bezprawia” – sumlinski

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbadNtNOYcQ#t=6m30s – prelekcja Wojciecha Sumlińskiego ; miedzy innymi studium niszczenia czlowieka, bagno systemu sadowniczego i nierozliczonej przeszlosci.