If it works, don’t touch it. This is one of my mottoes. I have broken this rule just yesterday when I decided that I was too lazy to install Pidgin from source, and decided I wanted it to be installed directly from deb. Unfortunately, there was no pidgin deb for Edgy. None that I was…
As an administrator, I am responsible for many setups and configurations, sometimes hand tailored to supply an answer to a set of given demands. As a human, I err, and the common method of verifying that you have avoided error is by answering this simple rule: “Does it work after these changes?” In the world…
This is not exactly a technical post, but I had to bring it online. I am proud to be one of the first persons, if not actually the first one to own a biological portable computer (BPC). You will find no other such thing, I think. I have searched Google, after all. Although the docking…
Recently I have installed several Redhat systems on IA64 platforms. Since it required only slight adjustments, and since there were two sets of systems, RHEL3 Update2 and RHEL4 Update3, I have decided to use Kickstart for both, each with his own ks.cfg file. For lack of any other explanation at the moment, I can only…
Cluster fencing – Unlike many common thoughts, high-availability is not the highest priority of an high-availability cluster, but only the 2nd one. The highest priority of an high-availability cluster is maintenance of data integrity by prevention of multiple concurrent access of nodes to the shared disk. On different cluster, depending on the vendor, this can…
Actually, this post has become less of the non-technical type and more of the technical type, however, for the sake of the cute little Nabaztag (you can send me messages too! Go here and send a message to “fatutchi”!), I keep it still in this category as well. Today is a busy day, so I’ll…
