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	<description>WebLog of Ioannis Aslanidis (aka Deathwing Zero Zero)</description>
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		<title>Disgusted with the Spanish government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very disgusted with the Spanish government and their later actions. I bought a couple of books and two T-shirts from the USA, the books from O'Reilly and the T-shirts from Valve. The books I bought are Learning Python, 4Ed for $54.99 and Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, 1Ed for $49.99. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Looking for an OVH-like provider in the USA or Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time, let me be the one asking for info to my readers. If you know anything about this, please let me know! I have been looking around a little for a provider just like OVH but located in the USA or in Canada, but I was not really successful. The closest thing I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=215</link>
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		<title>GUADEC streamed live in WebM using Flumotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GUADEC (GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference) of this year, 2010, is being streamed live from several locations (Paris, Copenhagen and Seville) in WebM format using Flumotion and the Flumotion Streaming Platform. It is amazing to be able to finally start streaming in an open format, no more flash! Remember that you need Firefox 4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Frustrated with Vodafone and the Nexus One FroYo 2.2 update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some sources have leaked that Vodafone is delaying the OTA release of FroYo to all Nexus One mobiles in Europe that were purchased through them for two more weeks. They promised to leave the firmware intact and now they have changed their minds and are modifying it! They apparently say they are "improving" it so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Call for help! Looking for contributors for pylsyncd : Python Live Syncing Daemon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for a fast and reliable solution to keep contents synchronized among different systems in different locations? Either if you want to synchronize a few contents or even several terabytes of data, pylsyncd may be the right solution for you. The application pylsyncd stands for Python Live Syncing Daemon and is a clear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=193</link>
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		<title>Finally a graphics card for Linux that works flawlessly with compiz and is lightning fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of struggling and looking around, I have finally found a graphics card that works flawlessly when running compiz under Linux and that processes all the effects at lightning speed. I've never seen something like this for that reasonable price! The graphics card is the nVidia PX9800 GT (Power Efficient) with 1024MB GDDR3, PCI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Testing out Funtoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I decided to give a try at Funtoo (for those that do not know it yet, a variant of Gentoo). I am very impressed with the improvements that Daniel Robbins has done so far. Among the things that I like: Use git to get portage updates instead of the sloppy cvs. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Today it&#8217;s the Greek Independence Day and tomorrow I will start my vacation from work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first modern Greek state was founded 189 years ago. After suffering massive oppression and several massacres under the Ottoman empire, the Greek population revolted and freed themselves from their oppressors. Nowadays, Greece is fighting against different kind of oppression, the oppression of speculators, of extremely wealthy people that only care about growing their fortunes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=160</link>
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		<title>How to be able to use your ssh agent forwarding after using sudo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we have hit with a solution for an issue where we wanted our users to run certain secure commands as root, which included repository commits. This can easily happen to you if you use savon, for instance. Because of the nature of savon, given that it understands not only about standard permissions and modes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=139</link>
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		<title>Check that a physical link is up with the proper speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This check is great to detect when a network cable for whatever reason deteriorates and stops providing the desired up-link speed. It works perfectly for any system that has ethtool installed. This particular check has helped me as a sysadmin to detect bad quality cables that, after being reused many times, end up deteriorating and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Snow at sea level in Barcelona, Spain on 08 March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This does not happen often in Barcelona, normally it won't snow at all; however, today it is snowing, and so much that it looks like a snow storm. Have a look at the pictures I got at work in the World Trade Center of Barcelona.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Check that an FTP account is fully working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This script uses lftp, a sophisticated ftp/http client, to check not only that a give FTP account is accessible, but that it is also able to list files and directories, to get and put files and to delete files. This simple script is fast, easy to configure, flexible and can be extended easily. Sometimes, things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Check that any network filesystem partition is correctly mounted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine, Thomas Blanchin, has improved my glusterfs mounted nagios check so that it works properly with any network file system. It generates the proper output and can be used for any network file system without much trouble. Download the file: check_mounted]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Puppetcamp Europe 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this information, Reductive Labs, the team behind puppet, has announced that Puppetcamp Europe 2010 will happen on 27 and 28 May 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. For those who do not know, Puppet is an open source application for system control automation. The concept on how it works is pretty simple. There is a puppetmaster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Releasing cached memory in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under normal circumstances, modern Linux systems try to cache into memory disk data that is accessed often. Sometimes, we have that much memory in the system that our kernel keeps filling up the memory by caching every piece of data we access. Other times, because of the swappiness factor, active data finds its way into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Check that a glusterfs partition is mounted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When using glusterfs in a production system, it is mandatory to properly monitor that the partition is mounted and performing well, specially in heavy loaded environments. I have created a nagios plugin in bash that monitors a glusterfs mounted partition and detects whether the partition gets unmounted, responds slowly or gets disconnected from the server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Check the percentage of CPU consumed by processes with the same name during a certain interval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many nagios scripts use ps to compute the percentage of CPU consumed by a process. Although at first instance this might seem a good approach, if you read properly the documentation, you will notice this: CPU usage is currently expressed as the percentage of time spent running during the entire lifetime of a process. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=24</link>
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		<title>New style setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After talking to several people, they convinced my to switch to a new style. I have to admit this will ease my life and hopefully make everything cleaner in my web space. Time will show the results!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deathwing00.org/wordpress/?p=11</link>
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