Going back to Debian
This has been a very trying week with Ubuntu. I recently deployed a large Xen farm using Ubuntu Hardy. Mixing 32 and 64 bit guests under a 64 bit hypervisor with a 64 bit privileged domain exposed some interesting bugs, such as time going backwards when using the default xen clock source. This nasty bug [...]
What is a computer, really?
I received a very interesting e-mail from the FSF today, sent via its announcement mailing list. The FSF (and numerous others) are very concerned about the IPhone being out of reach of free software due to its locking restrictions and the Apple developer NDA. I began to wonder, in this day and age, what is [...]
What a week (and its only Tuesday)
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. What a crazy week this has been and its only Tuesday! As a present, my wife got me a little hibachi grill that is safe to use on our concrete balcony. She also got me some charcoal and tongs! I began drooling while thinking about grilled burgers and [...]
Icahn, knock it off.
Icahn is at it again, this time he’s [really] trying to unseat the Yahoo board. Insanity is best defined as doing the same thing repeatedly yet expecting different results. Tell me Carl, does that make you nuts or determined? So, Carl .. in two years will we all be reciting “Ballmer flew and Icahn knew! [...]
All your tubes are belong to us
If you didn’t get the joke in the title, read this. Its official, Google is compelled by a court ruling to convey over 12 terabytes of YouTube access logs to Viacom. The logs contain the viewing histories of all YouTube users. It is not yet clear if Viacom will permit Google to `anonymise’ the logs [...]
The Planet – a teaching disaster
About 7000 people got a health dose of Murphy’s Law when The Planet’s H1 data center exploded this week. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Whatever can’t go wrong will probably go wrong too. For those of you who don’t follow the hosting industry, The Planet had an explosion in their electrical room knock [...]
Layered Technologies hikes prices
Holy cost of doing business Batman! Layered Tech, one of the largest providers of leased & racked commodity servers has raised prices across the board one more time. The latest increase means an additional $20 per server per month (on average) for most customers. I have received not one, not five, not ten, not twenty [...]
Talk about losing your keys!
I spent the better part of 3 1/2 hours this morning losing my keys. Not my car keys, not my house keys, my public SSH keys. All keys that I have in use were generated on a Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux computer. Luckily I’m pretty diligent about keeping a list of what key is where [...]
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