Archive for March, 2009

March 27th

From good old batch systems to actor based parallelism

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

sshfs + encfs + rsync = encrypted remote backups

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...