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Supercomputers #9 and #24
TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is here. In the first place is Tianhe hosted by National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China. I am glad to see that the supercomputers which I use every day for my simulations are #9 (Jugene) and #24 (Juropa). As you probably know, they are hosted by Forschungszentrum [...]
Fixing Lighttpd in Debian “squeeze” on SheevaPlug
I was using SheevaPlug as my Home NAS, with and external usb hdd, until recently when I built my new NAS, based on ION ATOM, FreeBSD and ZFS.
I am thinking to add an usb webcam and to use it as a monitoring system.
I updated Debian “squeeze”, which is running on an 8G SDHC card, but [...]
My ZFS Home NAS/HTPC Box Build
I was looking to build a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to store all my music, photos, files, e-books and important work related files. I also wanted to have a central place for my backups and to be used sometimes as HTPC. So, a “two in one” solution (NAS and HTPC).
Even if there are many ready-to-go [...]
Upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2. Yes, it is about openSUSE :)
A few days ago I upgraded openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my sony vaio notebook. I used for that the dvd and I kept my luks encrypted home partition, and as well the encrypted swap partition. It seems that everything is working well, it is a great release with a lot of improvements and nice [...]
Yahoo Mail and free IMAP
If you are using yahoo mail, like me, then you missed for a long time IMAP access for your inbox. They provide just POP3 access and I don’t want that. I would like to have/access the messages also via web interface and also to have them on my computer for offline access. So, the solution [...]
OpenSUSE 11.1 and Plesk 9.2.1 update
After more than three years of using Suse 9.3 with Plesk 8.1 on one of my VPS, I decided that it is time to update to OpenSUSE 11.1 with Plesk 9.2.1 control panel. The update process went very well, here are the steps involved:
1. create a full backup of your vps (databases, websites, accounts, emails, [...]
Avogadro: Segmentation fault – solved
That’s my first post to the great Planet, so “Hello PlanetSuse!!!”. If you are curios and you would like to know more about me, check my website and you will find many interesting things, my work, my research and so on.
I was running Avogadro on my openSUSE 11.1 box, but I have got a “segmentation [...]
My new phone: I chosed Nokia E71 over iPhone 3G
Above is a photo of my new Nokia E71, which I bought 10 days ago. It is a excellent phone, the keyboard is great to type on. It has everything you need and it is smaller than iPhone! A full review is available here.
The phone Nokia E71 is declared one of the best mobile phones [...]
Picasa 3 on OpenSUSE 11.1
If you want to install Picasa 3 on OpenSUSE then you will need to install “sane-backends-32bit” package, otherwise you will see the following dependency error:
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error: Failed dependencies:
libsane.so.1 is needed by picasa-3.0.5744-02.i386
so,
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sudo zypper install sane-backends-32bit
should solve the problem.
Encrypting External HDD with LUKS
I am using OpenSUSE on my main computers, so LUKS is a good option to encrypt my external hdd. I can use Truecrypt if I want to use the hdd with mac or windows, but here is not the case. You can also use LUKS under windows with FreeOTFE.
Here are the steps to encrypt [...]
