If you ever have the misfortune of accidentally passing the path to a directory containing 177GB of data to the rm -rf command, I’ll start by suggesting that you hit ctl-c.

When we bought our first 2 TiB disk we had no idea what was in store.

With cop16 coming up in just a few months, we’ve been working at MFPL on organizing people from around the world to share live video of the COP16 related events: protests, panels, performances, etc.

One of my first experiences as an activist happened while I was a teenager - I went door to door surveying my neighbors in Lincoln, Nebraska to determine interest in recycling.

I saw the keynote speech by one of the key technologists and organizers of WikiLeaks at the last Hackers on Planet Earth conference.

Often when replacing a failed disk in a RAID1 setup (or in many other cases) grub fails to load.

After much sweat and frustration, I’ve finally figured out how to tweak my tried and true Drupal import script to work for Drupal 6.

I just saw an announcement on a politically smart list saying that a collaborative document was just made available on Google Docs (a web application provided by Google that allows multiple people to collaboratively edit a word processing document).

Although not nearly as hairy as helping David Swanson upgrade upgrade his Drupal blog, the ikiwiki upgrade from version 2 to version 3 has been a bit hairy.

I’ve been experimenting with kvm and qemu and run into some conceptual and practical problems.