licence for lecture noteslicence for lecture notes
While attending LCA it occurred to me that the lecture notes from all the talks that I have given lack a copyright notice. So I now retrospectively license my lecture[...]
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new release of postalnew release of postal
Today I have released a significant new version of my mail server benchmark Postal! The list of changes is below: Added new program bhm to listen on port 25 and[...]
political compasspolitical compass
It appears that some people don’t understand what right-wing means in terms of politics, apart from using it as a general term of abuse. I recommend visiting the site http://www.politicalcompass.org/[...]
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Some ideas for running a conferenceSome ideas for running a conference
Firstly for smooth running of the presentations it would be ideal if laptops were provided for displaying all presentations (obviously this wouldn’t work for live software demos but it would[...]
some random Linux tipssome random Linux tips
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump The above command sets a sysctl to cause the kernel to log all disk writes. Below is a sample of the output from it. Beware that[...]
coolingcooling
Recently there has been some really hot weather in Melbourne that made me search for alternate methods of cooling. The first and easiest method I discovered is to keep a[...]
XephyrXephyr
As part of my work on Xen I’ve been playing with Xephyr (a replacement for Xnest). My plan is to use Xen instances for running different versions of desktop environments.[...]
core filescore files
The issue of core file management has come up for discussion again in the SE Linux list. I believe that there are two essential security requirements for managing core files,[...]
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[...]
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[...]