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Apparently they are planning a reality TV show that might be named “Kids Nation” where 40 children are allowed to develop their own society for 40 days. The claims are that there is “no parental supervision”, but of course with many TV cameras watching I’m sure that even the most stupid children can work out […] Currently I am considering the priority scheme to use for some highly available services running on Linux with Heartbeat. The Heartbeat system has a number of factors that can be used to determine the weight for running a particular service on a given node. One is the connectivity to other systems determined by ping (every […] Paul Graham makes some interesting observations about taking risks to achieve career benefits. One thing he doesn’t mention is that the risks have to match your life situation. If you are 21, living with your parents, and single (typical for a CS graduate) then you should take the riskiest options in terms of your career […] In a comment on my blog post “a Heartbeat developer comments on my blog post” Alan Robertson writes: I got in a hurry on my math because of the emergency. So, there are even more assumptions (errors?) than I documented. In particular, the probability model I gave was for a particular node to fail. So […] I have just installed a machine running CentOS 5 as a Xen server. I installed a full GUI environment on the dom0 so that GUI tools can be used for managing the virtual servers. The first problem I had was selecting the “Installation source”, it’s described in the error message as an “Invalid PV media […] Leon Brooks blogged about the Right to Fork (an essential right for free software development) but notes that governments of countries don’t permit such a right. One of the criteria for the existence of a state is the ability to control it’s own territory. Lose control of the territory and you lose the state, lose […] A comment on my post about the failure probability of clusters suggested that a six node cluster that has one node fail should become a five node cluster. The problem with this is what to do when nodes recover from a failure. For example if a six node cluster had a node fail and became […] |
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