monitors for developersmonitors for developers
Michael Davies recently blogged that all developers should have big screens. This news has been around for a while, the most publicity for the idea came from Microsoft Research where[...]
Windows VistaWindows Vista
There’s a blog about Windows Vista as the Free Software Foundation site. Not much content yet apart from RSS links but it should have some potential in future. I am[...]
Xen shared storageXen shared storage
disk = [ ‘phy:/dev/vg/xen1,hda,w’, ‘phy:/dev/vg/xen1-swap,hdb,w’, ‘phy:/dev/vg/xen1-drbd,hdc,w’, ‘phy:/dev/vg/san,hdd,w!’ ] For some work that I am doing I am trying to simulate a cluster that uses fiber channel SAN storage (among other[...]
multiple ethernet devices in Xenmultiple ethernet devices in Xen
It seems that no-one has documented what needs to be done to correctly run multiple Ethernet devices (with one always being eth0 and the other always being eth1) in a[...]
installing Xen domU on Debian Etchinstalling Xen domU on Debian Etch
I have just been installing a Xen domU on Debian Etch. I’ll blog about installing dom0 later when I have a test system that I can re-install on (my production[...]
free software liason?free software liason?
In my previous work as a sys-admin I have worked for a number of companies that depend heavily on free software. If you use a commercially supported distribution such as[...]
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memes that damage debianmemes that damage debian
The Debian project is afflicted with several damaging memes. One that is causing problems at the moment is the idea that life should be fair. Unfortunately life is inherently unfair,[...]
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more about vista securitymore about vista security
While reading the discussion of Vista security on Bruce Schneier’s blog it occurred to me that comparing the issues of DRM that face MS with the issues faced by SE[...]
email disclaimersemail disclaimers
Andre Pang blogs about the annoyance of email disclaimers. For a while I had a .sig indicating that it was a condition of sending email to me that the sender[...]
source dump blogsource dump blog
Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog for myself named Source Dump. Source is different to other blog content in that updates to fix bugs may be[...]