Google, a mecca for top notch programmers, attracts many top speakers to give talks on (generally) technical topics. They graciously record these talks and upload them to Google Video. You can get a list of most of them by searching video.google.com for “engEDU”. Think of these as virtual user group talks, but usually […]
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 […]
A few hours ago I started with a fresh Windows XP Home install for a computer for my family.
I’m still going. I have lost count of how many times I have had to reboot the machine then get a new round of updates to install. It is ludicrous.
Modern Linux distributions are far superior to this. […]
This Mailing list post from a user of “MythTV” reminded me of the wonders of LVM (Logical Volume Management) which is built in to Linux (HowTo, Resource page). I first saw LVM years ago on a commercial Unix, and didn’t quite understand the point. Now I see the point clearly, and set up most new […]
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 […]
One of our servers is an HP / Compaq 2U machine (DL380 ?) with 6 hard drives and the SmartArray hardware RAID controller. This generally works quite well, but we don’t use one of the handful of Linux distributions that HP supports… so from their site we find a great lack of information on […]
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