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SVLUG: The Story of Gluster

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Administrator

At Silicon Valley Users’ Group (SVLUG) tonite, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster, Inc. gave a great talk on “The Story of Gluster.” The name “Gluster” was derived from the words “GNU” and “Cluster.” No relation to the Luster filesystem, … Continue reading →

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BIND and DHCP Open Day, Menlo Park

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Administrator

I went to ISC’s BIND and DHCP Open Day in Menlo Park. There was a good turnout, with about 30 outside attendees and about the same of ISC staff. 3 BIND developers from the Czech and Chinese registrars also attended, … Continue reading →

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Small URL Generator in F5 iRule

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Administrator

One of the funniest technical articles I’ve read in a while: Small URL Generator (in F5 iRule): Part 1 Part 2 What could possibly go wrong? wikipedia: F5 Networks says, “iRules: a TCL-based scripting language allowing arbitrary manipulation of traffic … Continue reading →

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Linux File System Conformance Tests

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Administrator

It’s nice when filesystems benchmark fast, but even nicer when they don’t lose your files or go readonly. Thus the need for filesystem conformance testing. Some popular tools are: File System Exerciser (fsx) mt_write File System Reliability Test Suite Linux … Continue reading →

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Open Source Software Configuration Management Systems

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Administrator

There’s a lot of configuration management tools, but here’s the most common that I encounter: Tool Date Boot Initial Config Change Mgmt W Dev Lang Config Lang Licence OS Redhat Anaconda/ Kickstart 1994 Y Y N W Python/C kickstart.cfg/ Unix … Continue reading →

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