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Oct25

Debian Etch boot over iSCSI HOWTO

I’ve finally managed to write down all the steps needed to setup a Debian Etch system to boot over iSCSI without an iSCSI HBA.
These are the needed elements:

a debian Etch system, of course
open-iscsi
an iSCSI target (I’ve used iSCSI Enterprise Target for Linux)
gPXE

Instead of writing a lonely howto page on my blog, I’ve chosen to [...]

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Filed in: English Linux Software Libero Work howto

Apr3

Vittoria!

http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto

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Mar23

More on the strange spam

So it seems like I’m not the only one to have received this
Take a look at http://popefelix.livejournal.com/415834.html
He also links to:

http://hughanchor.blogspot.com/2007/03/er-right.html
http://juicycat.livejournal.com/299966.html
http://mymil.livejournal.com/135821.html
http://cutthechatter.blogspot.com/2007/03/weirdest-spam-ever.html
http://navausa.blogspot.com/2007/03/spam.html
http://dyrbaglyz.livejournal.com/316411.html

Weird and funny at the same time

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Filed in: English Web

Sep21

New Wiki!

I’ve just setup a “wiki”http://wiki.gervystar.net/.
Instiki seemed simple and fast enough to install on dreamhost and textile can be used to write the articles.
I’ve also tried mediawiki which is a very good product, but it’s too complex for my purposes.
So I’ll try to use this wiki as a space to collect useful and less useful information [...]

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Filed in: English Linux Software Libero


Sep20

Xen’s stuff

Today I spent some time working on one of our machines called “the-ripper” since we’re moving to the new offices and we’re cleaning up a bit our data-center.
That machine wasn’t previously used for anything but filtering packets between internet and the clusters’ testing network; the guy who was working there thought that it could [...]

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Sep16

In sweet harmony…

let’s come together.
It’s quite a lot of days since I’ve been listening to some songs which remind me of the days when I was younger and one of those is “Sweet Harmony” by “The Beloved”.
What I’ve never been caring of are those songs’ lyrics which are also kinda good even if they tell of some [...]

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Filed in: English Musica


Sep15

Technorati

Just a link to finally claim my blog on Technorati.
Technorati Profile

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I’m Alessandro Gervaso, I work as a consultant in IT services and HPC. I’m a long time GNU/Linux user and a free software supporter, currently being a member of an italian association called Associazione per il software libero. I’m also interested in web standards, usability and accessibility.
I’m a rock guitar player and I own an awesome motorbike!
And last, but nonetheless I live in Friuli near Pordenone, in the north east of Italy (well, about 100KM far from Venice).

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