Posted on February 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm
So I recently bought a Pogoplug device, sort of on a whim. I needed a NAS device, and the fact that the Pogoplug had HFS+ (OS/X filesystem) support made it a clear winner for me. I’ve been living with mine for about a week now, mostly with single 320GB HFS+ formatted drive. The $130 device [...]
Posted on June 20, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I am torn between showing the whole thing as a wall of shame item or just ranting about an anonymous (open source) user management product. It’s not alone in this sin, I’ve seen the same problem in *expensive* database driven shopping cart and user management apps. What problem is this that I am speaking of? [...]
Posted on March 27, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Bryan Cantrill over at Sun Fishworks wrote an Excellent Blog Post on why SPECsfs sucks. Go read it. Seriously. You need to. Then start to wonder about all the other “benchmarks” SPEC publishes. The blog post there explains WHY you can’t get affordable storage from big vendors, and why all of it’s performance is so crappy [...]
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 1:09 am
While doing a template fetch onto our Virtuozzo machine. A template fetch really just downloads every configured application (this is different from say EVERY application to create a mirror, it just downloads applications configured, and their dependencies). So it’s running yum in download-only mode. [root@vps1 private]# vztop vztop – 18:02:45 up 4 days, 17:30, 2 [...]
Posted on August 19, 2008 at 9:16 am
Well, the box running dotblag.com, while plenty serviceable, is showing it’s age. I’ve ordered a pretty large machine (just short of $3000 in total parts) and the bits are on their way, woohoo! I’ll be setting it up and burning it in over the next month or two. Once it’s ready dotblag will be moving [...]
Posted on February 1, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Or, how NOT to “log” errors. Especially on web based stuff. ESPECIALLY. Output from one of our mail processing frontends. The script runs mailq and collates the output, sorted by recipient domain. Redacted of course to protect the people with the bad idea. mfe3:~# /opt/bin/top-mailq-to-domains 2947 *REDACTED*.com 158 *REDACTED*.co.uk 117 *REDACTED*.org 116 mailbox.com This [...]
Posted on February 1, 2008 at 8:58 pm
NFS. The very bane of my existence. Well maybe not quite, but it sure makes my life hell. You can’t narrow down problem/runaway areas because there’s no granularity to what tiny statistics gathering it can/does do. There’s no authentication, and little to no access control. Please, don’t start on NFSv4. Linux can’t even support NFSv3 [...]
The resident lunatech.