Technology in the age of the Internet

Category: GNU/Linux

  • VAX revival

    I am into Retrocomputing. Recently I took an interest in searching for available GNU/Linux distribution for VAX systems. VAX was an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1970s. A 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) ISA, it was designed to extend or replace DEC’s various Programmed Data Processor (PDP) ISAs. The…

  • May 4th, International Day Against DRM

    International Day Against DRM -  While DRM has largely been defeated in downloaded music, it is a growing problem in the area of ebooks, where people have had their books restricted so they can’t freely loan, re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device without re-purchasing all of them.…

  • Richard M. Stallman in Ljubljana

    On Saturday 21th of April, Richard M. Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation visited Slovenia and held an excellent lecture about “Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks” (videorecording here) at the Museum of Modern Art. I admire/respect the work that he has done over so many years in promoting and battling for the Free…

  • Debian squeeze 6.0 frozen

    As of today 6th of August Debian squeeze release has been frozen. This means that new packages won’t enter into the current release anymore and bugs will be ironed out, until it reaches the final release in couple of months. At this time the Debian Conference is taking place in New York city.

  • Wlan Ljubljana

    I was on a briefing in Institute Jožef Stefan, where Mitar had a lecture about the Free Wi-Fi project in Ljubljana. I have joined the project in order to support one Wi-Fi node, which is connected to the network and offers free Wi-Fi/Internet access to people who are passing by near my building.

  • Native IPv6 on AMIS

    I was happy to receive a native IPv6 /64 subnet from AMIS today. It is still in the testing phase, this means they aren’t offering it to all customers yet. A native IPv6 connection means, that I can now avoid using IPv6 tunnel brokers and access the world directly over the IPv6 stack.

  • Native IPv6

    I received a native IPv6 subnet on one of my dedicated servers. It is now being used for hosting a freenode leaf server. I am still waiting for my home ISP provider AMIS to enable native IPv6, I hope that they will do it soon.

  • IPv6 certification completed

    I have completed the final step in HE IPv6 certification and reached top level Sage. I did it by using my primary domain name prunk.si . Check my Certification link for details.

  • Debian mirror becomes primary for .si

    My Debian archive mirror (debian.prunk.si) became a primary Slovenian (ftp.si.debian.org) mirror to sponsor the Debian project.

  • Logical volume manager

    LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a thing in Linux, that makes your Linux drive to better manage the partitions. For example, that you have 3 drives, each with a Partition of 100 Gb, LVM allows you to cluster these partitions together and have one partition with the size of 300 Gb. It can also do…