A couple of months ago I posted about using the current model Comtrol RocketModem IV with Debian / Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu/Debian includes an older “rocket” module driver in-the-box, which works well for older RocketModem IV cards. But for the newest cards, it does not work at all. The current RocketModem IV is not recognized by […]
The title of this post is a lie. It costs $70 or less, but takes a lot of work. I’ve offered this advice person-to-person many times, and finally got around to posting it.
How well you speak can have a great impact on your ability to get customers, to attract employees, to persuade others to adopt […]
This week I experimented with DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) which is “a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.”
DRBD can be used for build a “poor man’s SAN”, a RAID […]
This is a very late post. Back in January 2003, I got a major PC upgrade: two 19″ LCD monitors and a dual-DVI video card to drive them. This was somewhat less common (and much more expensive) in 2003 than today. The monitors are “Samsung SyncMaster 191T”. I took this photo at […]
It occured to me today that a section of my basement is starting to resemble a data center:
The four machines here:
Are all test machines, or being configured and burned in for future deployment - the production hardware for our projects invariably ends up in customers’ data centers or in robust colo facilities (redundant power, massive […]
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