I’ve recently spent some time setting up TLS/SSL encryption (SSSD won’t send a password in clear text when an user will try to authenticate against your LDAP server) on an OpenLDAP istance and as you may know the only way for doing that on a RHEL / CentOS environment is dealing with a Mozilla NSS…
Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team
IPv6 tunneling with Hurricane Electrics
I’ve been looking around for a possible way to connect to the IPv6 internet for some time now and given the fact my provider didn’t allow me to run IPv6 natively I had to find an alternative solution. Hurricane Electrics (HE) provides (for free) five configurable IPv4-to-IPv6 tunnels together with a free DNS service and…
The future is Cloudy
Have you ever heard someone talking extensively about Cloud Computing or generally Clouds? and have you ever noticed the fact many people (even the ones who present themselves as experts) don’t really understand what a Cloud is at all? That happened to me multiple times and one of the most common misunderstandings is many see the…
My favorite WordPress Plugins
It took me a while to build a complete WordPress blog with all the things I needed, from modifying the default Twenty Eleven theme to broadcasting my posts directly on Twitter. WordPress has a nice selection of plugins and given the fact I spent a few days evaluating all the possibilities, I decided to share my…
The Linux’s perception of my neighbours
Report: FAD Milan 2012
Exactly one week ago I was attending the Fedora Activity Day organized in Milan in concomitance with the Linux Day event being organized in several italian cities. Meeting the Fedora italian team has been simply great, we’ve been collaborating remotely since more than an year now and finding out all them being so friendly and…
Some statistics about GNOME.org
The GNOME infrastructure runs a Piwik‘s istance and it’s been amazing seeing some of the statistics published there. A few details: Traffic during the 27/09/2012 – GNOME 3.6 Launch Visits: 23063 Page views: 50352 Traffic during the last month. (from 15/09/2012 to 15/10/2012) Visits: 187598 Page views: 454313 Traffic during the last six months. (from 15/05/2012 to…
SSH Tunneling for VNC
Logging in into a Linux machine and executing the hundreds commands available is just one of the most common usages of OpenSSH. Another interesting and very useful usage is tunneling some specific (or even all) traffic from your local machine to an external machine you have access to. Today we’ll analyze how to access a…
An interview with Allan Day
A few days ago I had the great pleasure to interview Allan Day, GNOME designer and enthusiastic contributor. Me: Hello Allan, mind presenting yourself? Allan: I’m a designer working on the GNOME Project. I’ve been involved for quite a few years now. Last year I was lucky to be hired by Red Hat to work…