In the past I hacked around a problem with the order of starting (and with several bugs) a network stack combined of network bonding (teaming) + VLAN tagging, and then with network bridging (aka – Xen bridges). This kind of setup is very useful for introducing VLAN networks to guest VMs. This works well on…
This is a tricky one. I have had to waste a lot of time. The trick is to use 32bit browser (extract firefox into $HOME/firefox and run it from there. Details below), and a full JDK package from Sun. JRE is not good enough! I have a $HOME/bin/firefox32 script which looks like this: #!/bin/bash exec…
Unlike previous versions, VMs do not have a visible property in the GUI allowing autostart. This has been claimed to collide with the HA function of the licensed version. While I believe there is a more elegant way of doing that (like – ignoring this property if HA is enabled), the following method can allow…
DRBD is a low-cost shared-SAN-like solution, which has several great benefits, among which are no single point of failure, and very low cost (local storage and network cable). Its main disadvantages are in the need to constantly monitor it, and make sure it does what’s expected. Also – in some cases – performance might be affected greatly….
It wasn’t junk once… This stuff used to be useful, but it has been laying around for a long while now, doing nothing but collect some dust. I have ‘donated’ some stuff to someone who actually wanted it, but neither him nor me can find a use, nowadays, to a monochrome display card with an…
As my work takes me to various places (where technology is concerned), I collect lots of browser tab of things I want to keep for later reference. I have to admit, sadly, that I lack the time to sort them out, to make a real good and nice post about them. I do not want…
