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I have been thinking about what to write in this post since the day I took the final exam of the Stanford Online AI Class. I have so many things to say (and still to do), that I have a mess of mixed thoughts in my head. So, I apologise in advance if thoughts will sound a bit random. Amazing experience That’s what this class has been for me. I have learnt tons of new things, all thanks to the great work of prof. Thrun and Norvig. I digged into the amazing topic of Artificial Intelligence, and now I feel a bit more “round” as a Computer Scientist. ...

After some playing with Unslung on my Linksys NSLU2, I realize it was a “very limited solution” for our needs. We need to share 4 (sometimes 5) NTFS (or others) volumes, where everyone of them is 500GB: this is too much even for the modified firmware of Unslung, unable to read the full directory trees (and the contained files) of my massive movie’s collection. [](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign)[The Debian/NSLU2's Reign](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign) So, I came back to the Debian/NSLU2 solution. This time, with all the intention to make it work. It’s quite pointless to report here all the things I did to make it work in the way I want/need. I’ll just write down the most important bits: ...

Motivated by my friend KM here (sorry, Italian link), I decided to buy a Linksys NSLU2, a Micro-[en:NAS] based on [en:Linux]. Linksys (owned by Cisco) released since day one the source code of the tuned Linux Kernel, instantly allowing the Open Source community to hack this device in a million of ways. My requirements are very simple: I need to share something like 6 external HD using either Samba or FTP+HTTP. I first tried to use the “out-of-the-box” NSLU2 with the latest firmware, but it’s unable to manage more than 2 disks (on an HUB, it just see the first HDD attached). I then decided to use Debian/NSLU2, a very rich distribution for [en:ARM] that is just amazing. The only problem? It seems too much for an hardware like NSLU2, plus, after a normal apt-get dist-upgrade something related with [en:SELinux] and vsftpd happened and I didn’t managed to put it all back to work. I should have disabled selinux passing the parameter selinux = 0 to the Kernel at boot time but… there is no “easily modifiable” [en:Bootloader] to pass parameters to the kernel at boot time (at least, as far as I know). I suppose that I should modify the kernel, recompile and then re-flash it. Too much for something I want to finish in max 2 days. And the NSLU2 is slow. Very slow. It took something like 12 hours to make the full installation of Debian and flash re-flash the firmware. Besides, for what I need to do, it’s not worth it to do all this. ...

I know: Samba is Open Source and you can ALREADY do it by hand (on Tiger too) but it’s quite easier if you have a panel to set up it quicker. Take a look at this: Here is a complete gallery of screen-shots of the latest build of Leopard: 9A527. Source, mela|blog.it.

I already knew this service… but only now I’m becoming addicted!!! There is nothing better during the working day. Simply. Smart. Nice. Fast. And… it Work! You can follow me on Last.FM using the “widget” on the right (look at the sidebar).

I continue to follow Neminis about the HDR. And also about “the way to publish images”. I have installed the Zooomr RSS Plugin by Hans. It’s now on your right side. Hi say hello with a lot of beautifull Ladybirds from the Etna.

It is to get a free pro account ;) . Do you want one too?

OpenDNS. A Safer, Faster and Smarter DNS network, open to any user: you only need to change your DNS configuration to: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 If you need other info, take a look at the FAQ page. I experienced a speed improvement in name resolution and the anti-phishing system works great and transparently. It’s a very good initiative.

Il mio amico Nemo, che ha appena finito il suo ultimo esame, [en:Information_theory|Teoria dell’Informazione], ne ha resi disponibili gli appunti da lui stesi: un PDF che, per il fatto che è scritto in [en:LyX], è anche piacevole alla lettura, oltre che importante per l’argomento trattato. Un grazie da tutti gli studenti (ma non solo) credo gli sia dovuto ;) .

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