August 26th
What comes now is the description of a hack I did to avoid the occurrence of splitbrain in a 2 node linux cluster running heartbeat and drbd for disk replication.
I am not going to detail how...
August 21st
I like my life right now.
I recently changed job and started working for a young IT firm, as a software developer. But before developing some code you need servers to run it on. So for the past...
March 27th
I was recently reading on JavaWorld a serie of 2 articles discussing the advantages of actor-based parallelism over traditional approaches involving shared objects and locking mechanisms. Those...
March 8th
I am a backup freak. My home setup encompasses a file server that has 2 disks mirrored against each other using RAID1 and a second server that rsyncs its content against the main file server every...
January 23rd
Oh My God! I just stumbled upon my first MAC OSX trojan! And mostly written in shell script! I am just amazed.
But let me tell you the full story. I was googling to find a specific ebook for...
January 21st
Sitting in a warm bath this morning, enjoying the peace before the storm, I came to realize a striking thing: software development goes very much like the law of the jungle. To survive in a...
