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It is probably a good idea to have audit enabled on the server. Even though a hacker could disable it (if he was able to penetrate the server and gain root), there is still chance that he will not check for audit to be enabled.

Gluster FS has a very interesting way to deal with files being renamed to avoid large network traffic

A very strange thing happened to me today. I had to restart my PC, and it lost all of my precious settings - no icon theme, no icons, fonts are all messed up. .xsession-errors log is filled with errors about files not being found. I was very sad.

But that's what …

Gradle is much better to manage dependencies than Maven. Not only it allows you to set http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolutionStrategy.html, but it also supports full manual control.

First, if you do not want transitive dependencies at all (you will be forced …

If you want to reuse the same directory for Gluster FS:

# gluster volume create gv0 10.19.8.85:/media/data/gl2
volume create: gv0: success: please start the volume to access data

# gluster volume delete gv0
Deleting volume will erase all information about the volume. Do you want to …

Web Development is hard. And it is hard for all the wrong reasons. Take creation of this blog, for example. All I wanted was a simple web site, no twitter integration, no interactive content. Nothing out of ordinary. But I had few obvious restrictions, such as "No PHP". And what …

I have started a new blog!