We’ve been working with a giant backup server with 8 disks in a complex series of RAID arrays.

Here are the quick steps for turning a stock Debian Etch machine into a xen machine:

I saw this link on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative listserv.

There’s lots of talk about free and low-cost wireless internet access.

Venezuela is starting an ambitious training program today. The goal is to train 400,000 people in open source software.

For the techies: a new web site for anarchist geeks has started: aptgetanarchy.

Check out former May First Technology Collective member Laimah Osman’s latest project: Azad Design.

The Barton/COPE Act looks like bad news. Saveaccess.net highlights some of the worst aspects of the law, including weak provisions for community access television, little defense against redlining, and no defense against net neutrality.

Anyone else feel stifled by the gay marriage debate? Really brings back unpleasant memories of the gays in the military debate.

Mail is just about the hardest service to administer. Compared to web sites, databases, firewalls – just about any other service – mail is more complicated and more critical.