Many people think that white-box machines (IE the cheapest no-nam PCs you can buy) are suitable for use as servers. There are several factors that make white-box machines totally unsuitable[...]
I received a private email in response to my post about getting work in another country regarding hotel prices in London. The person who sent me the message had considered[...]
A friend recently asked for advice on a “REALLY small laptop/word processor thingy that would pretty much fit into a (big) pocket, and that only needs to write/word process“. The[...]
This afternoon we had a Debian meeting in Melbourne (Australia) arranged through the Debian-Melb mailing list. We met under the clocks at Flinders St station, had lunch at a good[...]
Often there are possibilities to earn more money or gain valuable experience by working in another country. I learned (and earned) a lot while working in London and Amsterdam and[...]
I’ve just reviewed my web stats from last month. Here are what appear to be the most popular posts: Committing Data to Disk – about how RPM and DPKG don’t[...]
The command crm_resource allows you to do basic editing of resources in the Heartbeat configuration database. But sometimes you need to do different things and the tool xmlstarlet is a[...]
A couple of days ago the hardware that is used to host this blog was upgraded – doubling the amount of RAM in the machine. To do this the machine[...]
Firstly for the benefit of people who haven’t heard of it, the Advogato FAQ and the Wikipedia Page describe what Advogato does. Pete Zaitcev posted a strange article about me[...]
In a comment on my previous post about ECC RAM someone commented that Dell sells PowerEdge desktop machines with ECC RAM. I visited the Dell web site and found that[...]