Terrorism FoolishnessTerrorism Foolishness
The Age has published a remarkably stupid article about terrorism titled “It’s hard to prevent the hard to imagine” which contains some amusing statements such as “a plan to use[...]
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Committing Data to DiskCommitting Data to Disk
I’ve just watched the video of Stewart Smith’s LCA talk Eat My Data about writing applications to store data reliably and not lose it. The reason I watched it was[...]
Xen and HeartbeatXen and Heartbeat
Xen (a system for running multiple virtual Linux machines) and has some obvious benefits for testing Heartbeat (the clustering system) – the cheapest new machine that is on sale in[...]
Backup for Wind PowerBackup for Wind Power
A question that people often ask about wind power (and was asked in the comments section of my previous post) is what can be done when the wind speed decreases[...]
Prius vs small non-hybrid carPrius vs small non-hybrid car
In response to my comment and post about the cost of driving to work there was a comment on the blog post I responded to suggesting that a small car[...]
Another Heartbeat 2.0 STONITH example configurationAnother Heartbeat 2.0 STONITH example configuration
In a Heartbeat cluster installation it may not be possible to have one STONITH device be used to reboot all nodes. To support this it is possible to have multiple[...]
SE Linux in DebianSE Linux in Debian
I have now got a Debian Xen domU running the strict SE Linux policy that can boot in enforcing mode. I expect that tomorrow I will have it working with[...]
permalinks in wordpress, Apache redirection, and other blog stuffpermalinks in wordpress, Apache redirection, and other blog stuff
When I first put my new blog online I didn’t think to set the custom permalinks option to avoid having /index.php in all URLs (which wastes a few bytes and[...]
school ratingschool rating
The web site <A HREF="http://au.ratemyteachers.com/">http://au.ratemyteachers.com/</A> allows Australian students to rate their teachers. Ratings are anonymous and give teachers a score out of 5 as well as allowing students to[...]
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[...]