Recently, I acquired a Raspberry and configured a small server at home with Ubuntu server. I also purchased a domain name, contracted a fixed IP with my provider, opened a ssh port and started being able to access my home server from anywhere.
Unison is a tool to synchronize files and directories between different systems or within the same system. It can also be done between different platforms, for instance between a Linux computer and another computer with a different operating system, since it is a multi-platform program which is available for the best known operating systems.
Since about a year ago I've lost my open IP in the University network and they forced me to move behind a VPN, with a lot of issues on how to maintain my workflow. But one of the most annoying things of this is that even the most basic things like using ssh or sftp may have new issues that are very hard to debug and for which I don't have any support whatsoever by the IT support staff.
It seems that talk has been started around the unification of packaging systems for various Linux distributions. There are currently different systems. Maybe the main ones are the Debian system (files with .deb extension being used among others by Debian, Ubuntu or Mint) and the RPM system (with .rpm extension, being used by RedHat, Fedora, OpenSuse and others), but there are more, for instance the Pacman system used by Arch Linux.
In recent months we have heard that some countries such as Ireland, Portugal and Spain, but also in a lesser way Italy or Belgium, are having trouble in issuing their debt because there is a lot of speculation and betting against them.
During the last decades in all developed countries new industrial firms have appeared that combine manufacturing activity with the services needed. Instead of traditional resources, this new industry is based on the intensive use of technological knowledge and the generation of value added through the design and the improvement of distribution channels and commercialization.
I have a couple of Drupal 6 sites using the Webfm module (https://drupal.org/project/webfm). This module was never migrated to Drupal 7 because in this last version of Drupal the file API changed completely, and the module would have to have been rewritten completely, and nobody did it.
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I am an applied economist, my main fields of research are Applied Industrial Economics, especially innovation related issues, and Labor Economics. Recently I got interest also in the Economics of Education, for instance in the performance of educational systems.