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…
FAD Milano 2012
È con piacere che annuncio la mia presenza al Fedora Activity Day di Milano in data 27 Ottobre 2012 e con altrettanto piacere ringrazio gli organizzatori per avermi dedicato uno spazio di trenta minuti in cui discutere ed approfondire le tematiche derivanti dall’amministrazione di sistemi Linux, nello specifico, dell’amministrazione degli stessi computer che ospitano e…
Building Debian packages with Deb-o-Matic
Today I’ll be telling you about an interesting way to build your Debian packages using Deb-o-Matic, a tool developed and maintained by Luca Falavigna. Some more details about this tool from the package’s description: Deb-o-Matic is an easy to use build machine for Debian source packages based on pbuilder, written in Python. It provides a…
Manage your website through Git
Nagios IRC Notifications
Lately (as I earlier pointed out on my blog) I’ve been working on improving GNOME’s infrastructure monitoring services. After configuring XMPP it was time to find out a good way for sending out relevant notifications to our IRC channel hosted on GIMPNET. I achieved that with a nice combo: supybot + supybot-notify, all that mixed…
Nagios XMPP Notifications for GTalk
While improving GNOME’s servers Nagios Notifications, I ended up working on a nice way to notify the relevant folks through GTalk in case something could go wrong on any of the hosted services. Looking around on the web, I found Seth Vidal’s script, modified it to suit my needs and made it working with GTalk,…
A few useful Puppet snippets
I’ve been playing with Puppet lately both on my home network and within the Fedora’s Infrastructure team and I thought some of the work I did might be useful for anyone out there being stuck with a Puppet’s manifest or an ERB template. Snippet #1: Make sure the user ‘foo’ is alwais created with its…
A few other additions to my Mutt and Desktop setup!
A few days ago I blogged about my main computer’s configuration files and desktop’s appearance and today I managed to add a few little tweaks to those, they are: Google’s contacts list integrated into Mutt a cleaner and nicer Login screen Curious to know how you can easily integrate your Google’s contacts into Mutt? Well,…
New Desktop, Mutt and Irssi setup!
Backup your Gmail in a few easy steps!
I’ve actually spent a few hours searching around for a good backup solution for my mailbox until I decided to stick with getmail. What you’ll be able to achieve after reading this HowTo and deploying the following setup is: A full backup of your e-mail DATA in the Mbox format. (yes, Gmail’s labels / folders…