I can tell you that due to issues we have bashed our ESX Cluster like an old shoe. We have had hardware black screen of deaths, hard reboots, crashed LUN’s, filled LUN’s, disappearing LUN’s, disappearing fibre cards, disappearing NIC’s – the lot. The servers have been opened and reopened, components on the desk like an server massacre and people wearing three anti static straps just for luck.
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Now that’s a Cluster
At the time of writing they had 748 hosts with 10,382 CPU’s and 15 Terrabytes of RAM while serving a few Gigabytes per second of outgoing data and a couple Gigabytes of incoming data…
Wikimedia Strategic Plan – The Future of Wikipedia
“… [since] 2001 Wikipedia has become the fifth most-visited site in the world, used by more than 400 million people every month … Wikipedia is available in more than 270 languages … There are over 17 million Wikipedia articles across all language versions, and 8.5 million media files in the Wikimedia Commons database …” – now they have released their Strategic Plan to take over the world.
New Website – tweetflo.com – online!
I am happy to announce that my latest website, tweetflo.com is online (beta). tweetflo is a live tag cloud of Twitter Trends and hot topics, updated every 30 seconds. It gives a new and exciting way of seeing whats going on and what people are talking about – real time – and without the need of a Twitter account.
option=com_properties – Somebody hates Joomla
Information on generic libwww-perl option=com_properties&controller=..//..//..//..//..//..//..//..///proc/self/environ%00 attempts in your logs – script kiddie attempts against Joomla.
Host Static Websites on Amazon S3 Storage
This afternoon I was explaining to my colleague Alec Tang the features of S3 storage and that my next project was a WordPress Backup to Amazon application, and he asked whether you could use Amazon S3 to host websites.
Will Android Kill the Linux Star?
Let’s be honest and look at the real reasons one chooses Linux (outside server, industry and science). Number One: to stick it up Microsoft. That’s it really and if anyone says different they are lying. Choosing Linux was a way to stick it to the man and to allow you to use “windose” and “micro$oft” in forums.
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