Category Archives: Datacenter
Monty, stop trolling!
Monty has resorted to another round of hand-waving in his post MySQL saga. This guy is starting to become an embarrassment to the FOSS community. Some people accuse him of “selling out” in some moral sense; this is not the … Continue reading
Biting the Hand That Feeds
Granted, I’m not a Groklaw junkie. Lawsuits are the epitome of bureaucratic boring and are not a creational activity. So, keep in mind that I only read the occasional major headlines from The SCO Group’s escapade in futility. It does … Continue reading
2010 SpamAssasin Public Service Announcement
If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin. There is a New Year’s SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked “grossly in the future”. That is a problem since it is now … Continue reading
Sun Ultra 27 Review – The Ultimate Linux Workstation
Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce … Continue reading
DRBD merged with kernel 2.6.33
DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the “Distributed Redundant Block Device”, this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple … Continue reading
Xen 3.4.1 on RHEL/CentOS 5.4
I’m happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4. If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post “Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation … Continue reading
Java: The Good Parts
A while back, a book entitled JavaScript: The Good Parts made waves on the internet, especially social networking sites. This book purported to show the inner beauty of a language that was long considered second or third rate, coming of … Continue reading
Computer e-Recycling (an I.T. WTF Odyssey)
Story Time: Computer e-Recycling an I.T. WTF Odyssey I had the displeasure of working at an erecycler several years ago. Even watching stuff come off the trucks, it was very hard to get anything before it was utterly destroyed by … Continue reading
Mirroring Fedora
Introduction This post details setting up your own private mirror of Fedora’s repos. There are many ways to do this, but this method is by far the best for heavy usage. By using MirrorManager, clients in your IP range need … Continue reading
Kernel 2.6.30 is a Go
I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn’t make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn’t seem very interesting to me. But analyzing the sum of parts, I … Continue reading