Category Archives: Article

Recovering a bootable EBS image

Scott Moser has just announced this week that the new Ubuntu images which boot out of an EBS-based root filesystem in EC2, and thus will persist across reboots, are available for testing. As usual with something that just left the … Continue reading

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geohash.org is public!

After about one year writing this service in my spare time, it’s finally out. geohash.org offers short URLs which encode a latitude/longitude pair, so that referencing them in emails, forums, and websites is more convenient. Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary … Continue reading

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APT-RPM article now in portuguese

I’ve translated to portuguese (pt_BR) the APT-RPM article I wrote for LWN. It’s available in printed media on Revista do Linux #50, and also on the LinuxIT site.

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APT-RPM Article

I’ve written an article about APT-RPM to LWN, exposing features recently introduced in the software. Check it out!

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