I have two locations: home, and the office. Each has an always-on server (a Linux box in the office, and a hacked Linksys NSLU2 at home). Various other computers are scattered around, though, and it finally occurred to me the other day that I could configure them for Wake-on-LAN and remotely turn them on if need them. Here's a record of my...

I have two locations: home, and the office. Each has an always-on server (a Linux box in the office, and a hacked Linksys NSLU2 at home). Various other computers are scattered around, though, and it finally occurred to me the other day that I could configure them for Wake-on-LAN and remotely turn them on if need them. Here's a record of my...

OpenSolaris isn't exactly easy on the new administrator, but I think I've finally got things going. It worked all right out of the box, but configuring a static IP address was a little involved. Some tips: - Don't believe what all the 'how to get started with solaris' guides say about setting a static IP address by editing /etc/hosts and...

OpenSolaris isn't exactly easy on the new administrator, but I think I've finally got things going. It worked all right out of the box, but configuring a static IP address was a little involved. Some tips: - Don't believe what all the 'how to get started with solaris' guides say about setting a static IP address by editing /etc/hosts and...

Not having any luck getting a useful system (i.e. one that will let me compile C code, pass it through dtrace, and link it) installed from the more minimal solutions like SchilliX or Nexenta, so I finally downloaded it - all 3.8GB - and installed Solaris. It took forever to install - like XP or Vista - so let's see what's inside. On a computer...

Not having any luck getting a useful system (i.e. one that will let me compile C code, pass it through dtrace, and link it) installed from the more minimal solutions like SchilliX or Nexenta, so I finally downloaded it - all 3.8GB - and installed Solaris. It took forever to install - like XP or Vista - so let's see what's inside. On a computer...

Worth checking out: SourceGear DiffMerge. Comment

Worth checking out: SourceGear DiffMerge. Comment

Very nice - Google has implemented semi-synchronous replication for MySQL, so you can get high availability solely through replication. The detail: MySQL replication is good for scalability, but being asynchronous, it lacks one important feature that would make it more or less a complete high availability solution. If a transaction succeeds on...

Very nice - Google has implemented semi-synchronous replication for MySQL, so you can get high availability solely through replication. The detail: MySQL replication is good for scalability, but being asynchronous, it lacks one important feature that would make it more or less a complete high availability solution. If a transaction succeeds on...

I haven't paid much attention to what's been happening to the Python Programming language since v2.3. Reading through the What's New in Python 2.5 document, though, it looks like they're rounding off a few more of the sharp edges - excellent. A couple of the syntax alterations will save me much code in future. All we need now are convenient...

I haven't paid much attention to what's been happening to the Python Programming language since v2.3. Reading through the What's New in Python 2.5 document, though, it looks like they're rounding off a few more of the sharp edges - excellent. A couple of the syntax alterations will save me much code in future. All we need now are convenient...

Hah - our database server is currently handling 150+ queries per second, fairly happily on 1% CPU usage! Comment

Hah - our database server is currently handling 150+ queries per second, fairly happily on 1% CPU usage! Comment

I'm trying to do some hard disk maintenance on a machine on the other side of the world, and before I start doing things like reconfiguring its RAID arrays with things still mounted there, I'm giving NFS booting a go. The idea is to configure the system to boot using its usual GRUB boot partition, but then mount its root filesystem off an NFS...