DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the "Distributed Redundant Block Device", this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple nodes.
This is primarily useful in high availability …
more ...Here's my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort.
Wikipedia rendered with the end result of this guide
Enable the following USE flags:
euse --enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts
and make sure everything is built with them enabled:
emerge -uDNa world …I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes.
Unfortunately, IBM's "transmogrifier" utility doesn't work very well in Wine, so you should preprocess older books in Windows before running them through the …
more ...I'm happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4.
If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post "Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation Fun", you no longer need …
more ...I had an interesting day today. At school, we had a social event with an industry governing board and several local software companies in the Charleston, South Carolina region. Aside from meeting a lot of new people, I was able to ask some of the industry leaders present about the …
more ...This post details setting up your own private mirror of Fedora's repos. There are many ways to do this, but this method is by far the best for heavy usage. By using MirrorManager, clients in your IP range need no custom configuration. Roaming laptop users automagically hit your mirror …
more ...I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn't make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn't seem very interesting to me. But analyzing the sum of parts, I have to consider 2.6.30 a 'golden' kernel -- certainly …
more ...The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/475) is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing narrow-minded ideas such as DROPPING software paravirt or merging Xen as a whole into the kernel.
I use …
more ...The Register has a good article on Sphinx search with some entertaining pop-shots at Java and "enterprise software" that got a rise out of me:
more ...Solr is popular with the enterprise crowd, who love its Java. Being a Java program, Solr includes no shortage of technology whose acronyms contain the …