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Netflix and Cloud IT

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Administrator

I recently did some technical consulting for Netflix. I can say that they are really, truly committed to cloud IT, per their public pronouncements. Most large companies are still just dipping a toe in the water, so it’s significant that … Continue reading →

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Checking MySQL Hosts in Parallel with Perl Threads

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Administrator

Here’s an example of using Perl ithreads to do monitoring of multiple MySQL hosts in parallel. Note that with older versions of Perl, you can use fork() or the forks.pm module instead of threads. #!/usr/bin/perl use threads; use 5.8.1; use … Continue reading →

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The HP Touchpad Lessons

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Administrator

So … there’s a reason why HP dumped the Touchpad tablet for $100 each at retail. The channel didn’t want them. It was was cheaper to sell them at a loss of about $300 each than to have Best Buy … Continue reading →

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Debugging Munin Problems

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Administrator

Munin is an Open Source program that does system monitoring and produces beautiful graphs every 5 minutes using RRDTool. I recently updated to Munin 1.4.6 on a CentOS 6 linux system. Most of the graphs worked out of the box, … Continue reading →

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Recovering Data from a Linux Hard Disk

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Administrator

If you have a linux hard drive that has recently “died”, usually you have a chance to restore it if you’re adequately prepared. By “died” I mean suffered a mechanical or electronic problem with symptoms like clicking, excessively hot, intermittent … Continue reading →

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