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Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi – Bryan Apperson

As the author clearly stated in a comment, this is more of a proof-of-concept for learning ceph, not for a real deploy as it’s not meant to be cheaper per GB, but cheaper for initial cost: a “3 figure cost of entry way to begin learning ceph”.

Even today  (year 2017) an x86 based solution will have a minimum cost much higher while giving higher performances (129€ just for a single CPU board plus case without memory and storage)

Wow – Pepper&Carrot

A free, libre and open-source webcomicsupported directly by its patronsto change the comic book industry! What a nice, fresh surprise is this Pepper&Carrot! I’m actually looking for an artist to see if I can commission a set of drawing for a Role Play Game I would like to develop for my beloved daughters. I think…

Font: Typewriter Cursive

From Font: Typewriter Cursive | ‘i do’-it-yourself® well, I do feel exactly like the author of this page… this font reminds me of “Cammiamo insieme”, the small newsletter of my oratorio (sorry, no english version) of my childhood and the studying materials made by CUSL at Politecnico di Milano when it was in its old…

paolo@rigel:~$ sudo badblocks -n -s /dev/sdg [sudo] password di paolo: Ricerca dei blocchi non validi (test in moalità lettura-scrittura non distruttiva) Controllo con un modello casuale: 24.33% done, 8:14:38 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)s) It’s a long long way to check a 500Gb disk over Usb2 for bad sectors. I used to carry this disk around. Last…

Are they really allowing this?

  I’m shopping for some books to update my rusting C++ proficiency coming to Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu) | Sutter’s Mill from the omnipresent Wikipedia entry. I almost jumped when I read this: Two language features that didn’t make it (yet) Of the new language features I mentioned last time, only…