Updated my High-Availability Xen page with some detail on block devices and file systems and what’s fun about doing systems development work 10 days behind the kernel code that’ll make it all work. Kate’s out of town, and I’ve had a couple of long days at work the past couple of days, so things are [...]
I’m diving into a relatively new branch of the systems engineering world at the moment — setting up a high-availability virtual server cluster. To give a sense of how new this stuff is, a fix that I need before I can even start to test the subsystem performance was checked into the Linux kernel tree [...]
Go read Scrumptulescence. No. Seriously. Go read it. Go. Now. (If you’re confused about why a demand that my readers go read a food blog has the category “Ultimate” appended to it, it’s because several of the posters are folks that I’ve played ultimate with…)
Okay, so I don’t know if God uses Linux. But the Vatican does. Neat interview with the Sister who is in charge of the Vatican’s website: http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1363/meet-the-techie-sister-behind-vaticans-website. (Yep, random. That’s the way we like it.)