• Install maven3 in Ubuntu 11.10

    by  • January 17, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Maven3 packages deb packages are already available in few 3rd party PPAs [1], though in case you want to go with the latest version of maven3 here are the steps you can apply to install maven3: 1) Remove existing maven2 : sudo apt-get purge maven* 2) Install Maven3 : $ sudo su – $ mkdir [...]

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    An IP for every single droplet in the cloud

    by  • November 13, 2010 • 3 Comments

    According to Number Resource Organisation [NRO], as of October 2010, [only] less than 5% of the IPv4 address space remains unallocated. This put a lot of pressure on IPv6 adoption given the increasing rate of new devices connecting to our precious ‘network’.   But there’re a lot of benefits coming out of this adoption is spite of [...]

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    Why clouds made it and grids did not

    by  • October 23, 2010 • 1 Comment

    In 2001 Foster, Kesselman and Tuecke published the “The Anatomy of the Grid” that shortly became the cornerstone for the newly born paradigm of computing. Even at that time, distributed computing was not a completly new model, the cluster computing was there, large laboratories in industry and academia were using parallel computation to solve rather [...]

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    Instead of introduction

    by  • October 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

    Quite often in the past years I’ve been tempted to start writing  my thoughts about the it-sphere, being them breakthrough ideas, silly information everybody knows except me or simply comments on current trends in this fast paced industry. So far though I was lazy enough to stick with the blog reader role….not anymore I chose cloudware to be [...]

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