Good Bye Blog, Hello Wiki

It has been a long time since my last update. I've been busy with other personal projects that keep me from maintain the blog. Now I have more time, but it's still difficult to write good postings.

The main reason for start the blog a year ago was to document all my development facts and progress. For that purpose, the most easy way was to start a blog, because it was a known platform for me. But, after a few months after I started to use it, I found it very limited as a development resource.

Previously to the blog, Codepixel author, Xabier Loureiro, suggested that I should start a personal wiki, which is more suited for continuous maintenance. I started to migrate "Fallen Apples" most useful content to a new Google Site (kind of Google wiki) and, at the moment, I agree with him. While you can achieve a similar functionality with a blog using static pages, I found more comfortable to do it on a platform like Google Sites.

Now, I will use http://sites.google.com/site/manelvf/ to store, classify and upgrade my personal notes, as I was doing before at this blog.

Linkedin network fail

I've been suffering a lot of network connections trying to access LinkedIn site from my home. In fact, I couldn't access services as accept invitations and change my profile.
After sending an email to them, they answer me a long email with a conclusion: to connect to LinkedIn the mtu (maximun transmit unit) must be lower than usual. It seems it's a scale problem they haven't solved. A practical reference value is 1360. So, the Linux way to solve the problem is this:

sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1360

Where eth0 is the name of the card device (wifi is wlan0, i.e.) and 1360 is an acceptable mtu value for my connection. In distros like Fedora, maybe you have to login as root in console with "su -" or similar.