Archive for March, 2009
Anomos: anonymous BitTorrent
Saturday, March 14th, 2009The following information is based on Anomos’ website. Funnily, when you go to that website, the default page is a blog that doesn’t answer the “What’s anomos?” question. The answer to that question is available on the About page, on this blog post, and those slides. So, Anomos seems like a good answer to the [...]
Make, tmpfs, and [amc]time granularity
Sunday, March 8th, 2009As you might have guessed (or not), I’ve been playing with the idea of improving my Debian rebuild setup by building on tmpfs: disk I/O take a signifiant amount of time, that could easily be reduced by building (mostly) in memory. Most packages build fine on tmpfs: only 8 packages fail only on tmpfs. Apparently, [...]
Wysiwyg tool to create simple websites?
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Hi, I’m looking for a tool to create simple websites (5-10 pages), only static content (no PHP). Think of the typical small business or sports club website: text + pictures about what they did/do, nothing really complex. Requirements: usable by a non-programmer who doesn’t want to know about gory technical details (HTML, CSS, etc) doesn’t [...]
PhD !
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009This blog post is long overdue, but like Lenny, it was finally released. Yes, I defended my PhD thesis on December 4th. So I’m officially a Doctor from the Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble. The general context of my thesis is distributed systems, like peer-to-peer systems and applications running on HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster and [...]
Creating a large file without zeroing it: update
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Given the large number of comments I got (26!), I feel obliged to post a summary of what was said. First, the problem: I want to create a large file (let’s say 10 GB) to use as swap space. This file can’t be a sparse file (a file with holes, see wikipedia if you don’t [...]