ReviewMe aims at connecting advertisers and publishers (including bloggers) so that publishers will get paid to write reviews on their site about a product or a website.

As obvious as this is, it is designed so that bloggers will get money from the time they spend on their blogs and advertisers will get better quality advertisement. But if you are not interested by the financial aspect, you might still be interested in using ReviewMe to find the best blogs about the subjects you like.
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ZFS, Sun’s latest filesystem, got a well deserved fame because of it’s ease of use and powerful features.

The ZFS community at the OpenSolaris.org website provides a great introduction to Sun’s ZFS.

Those of you who have actually already setup a software RAID with Solstice DiskSuite will truly appreciate how much simpler Sun made it with ZFS. The concepts of volume management and filesystems behind ZFS are not new, but Sun brought an unprecedented ease of use administration to those.

To understand Sun’s ZFS philosophy, you have to understand that it is built over two concepts : pools and filesystems. Let’s see what they are. read this entry »

“Server Side Includes” (SSI for short) are a mechanism which will let you have Apache pre-process html pages before sending them to the browser.

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As stated in the mailing list, the twice a year release of OpenBSD went out today ! Follow the link below for the full announce.

‘OpenBSD 4.1 Released’ – MARC
May 1, 2007. We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: [...]

Long live OpenBSD !

Today I write a blog entry to ask a question to the Linux users community. 

In former time, when I had this need, I would have used xv. But I guess this tool is considered history nowadays … nonetheless, I’m looking for something in the same spirit : letting me quickly and efficiently browse my pictures, no fancy editing capabilities wanted.So people, what do you use ? Any hint ?If that can narrow down the choices, I’m using Debian GNU/Linux 4.0.

Thanks in advance !

(I’m now going to let this post flow in social news websites and hope for good hints in the comments, and then I’ll update this post with the best suggestions I’ll get — thanks in advance !)

I accessed my “Google Personnalized Homepage” today morning only to discover that the page logo now displays iGoogle instead of the classic and usual Google… I was wondering what it was, as the logo is not clickable with a link to an explanation as I hoped it would be …
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