On Q&A And Broken Windows
Have you ever driven through a bad neighborhood with lots of rubbish blowing about and felt less guilty than you would otherwise by throwing a banana peel out of your car window? Perhaps an empty soda can? If you have, you’ve demonstrated what we call the broken window theory. Not surprisingly, the theory also applies [...]
You May Have Xen – But How About Tofu?
Enough procrastinating. I have been working on a Xen friendly operating system for several years, a lot of the time has been spent waiting to see what happened with pv_ops in mainline Linux. Two years later, we’re still waiting to see what happens to pv_ops in Mainline Linux. Everything else (such as the Xen API, [...]
Yet another virtual appliance
In my on-going effort to make the building blocks for a “poor man’s” cluster, I’ve decided to get to work on some virtual appliance images suitable for use with Xen (and possibly others). Pound is a great load balancing tool. Its light weight, super easy to configure and pretty reliable. Depending on the kind of [...]
New Mercurial theme brewing
For those of you who have not been a long term visitor of my web site (that I nicknamed “Rose Red”), I’ve been slowly but surely converting many scripts and applications to match my original XHTML 1.0 strict static design. You can see the site design notes if your really curious about what I’ve done. [...]
Star Wars television series planned
Associated Content is reporting that George Lucas is now working on the foundation for a Star Wars television series. Who says that there is nothing good in the news these days? According to Lucas, the new television series will share the same galaxy as the Star Wars movies, however none of the well known characters [...]
Radiohead is using their head
Radiohead announced that fans will get to pay what they want, if they want for the upcoming album In Rainbows due out on October 10 (which happens to be my birth day!). What Radiohead is going to do comes very close to what free software authors have been doing with our products for years. We [...]
GNUPanel – Poised to replace C-Panel/WHM?
One of the things I have been spending as much time as possible to advance lately is GNUPanel, a from scratch GNU-centric web hosting control and automation system, very similar to C-Panel. C-Panel is a proprietary web hosting control system produced by Cpanel, Inc. Most of us know, one server is simply not enough. The [...]
PHP Glue – Install Applications Easily Without Fantastico
I’ve been sitting on the domain phpglue.com for over a year while wondering what in the heck I want to do with it. I often register domain names because they are interesting without much of a plan of what to do with the domain once registered. Quite a bit of my time lately has gone [...]
