So, what upsets you?
Getting ticked off sucks. If we get ticked off at 8AM, by 5PM we’re still ticked off but can’t quite remember why. We just attribute our ticked-off-ness to “events of the day” and leave it at that. Many of us get screamed at for a living. Yes, your job description might say “system administrator” (or [...]
Commercial kids?
I make no big secret about my aversion to commercial culture. But, that’s just my aversion. We’ve been approached three times by poeple who wanted to put our two-year-old in commercials. One commercial was for Pampers, the diaper people. The other two offers focused on more generic/stock use of our daughter’s photographs. We turned all [...]
From zero to closed
Advertisement servers (all of them) are currently so bogged down that they slow down the entire Internet. Google has taken some proactive steps in curing this issue, not many others have done the same.If I can not view a page in 10 – 15 seconds, I close it, period. The delay just tells me that [...]
Reliable, Available Or Highly Available?
I’ll probably get a bunch of hate mail over this one, but that’s nothing new Many people seem to be confused when I use the word reliable when talking about a cluster of computers, they seem to be used to the word available. In particular, they seem used to the phrase highly available. Aren’t clusters [...]
Web hosts – use jfs over ext3
This is a quick note Web hosts, try jfs over ext3. I can now report, over a year and counting, every time I clean up a disaster, computers ( virtual or dedicated ) using JFS nearly _always_ recover. Those using ext3 typically suffer database corruption, /etc is missing or corrupted, or some other problem that [...]
Xen 3.1.1 release candidate 2 is out :)
Oh come, all ye Xenn-ers get the latest rrrr-c. (Ok, I’ll shut up) Keir has finished assimilating the patch queue into the new release candidate for Xen (3.1.1). There are a plethora of improvements best witnessed by viewing the change log. I know that many of you prefer to yum or apt-get your way into [...]
Pretty, pretty good, or both?
There is a common and festering misconception that has existed in users of computer programs ever since there were computers and programs to run on them. “If it is aesthetically pleasing, it must be a good program“. I can not tell you how much you short-change yourself if you have this mentality. Put simply, aesthetically [...]
Wash your ass, or was that watch?
Toto wants you to do both. No, not Toto the cute little dog, Toto the toilet company. Sometimes I just chuckle. Toto (A manufacturer of toilets and such other necessities) has made a breakthrough in the ancient art of keeping one’s derrier nice and shiny. Apparently, they have embedded a shower in a toilet seat, [...]
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