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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!