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I am looking for someone to give me a hand with roughly 500 hours of work in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
If you are language agnostic (ie can switch from python, php, perl, c), and have linux system administration experience, please send me your resume. Position can start almost immediately. We primarily work with Novell SLES right now but are pushing to transition to Ubuntu.
You can find my email on launchpad.
Being that Ubuntu is “linux for everyone”, I really like the idea of doing away with the FHS layout.
I mean how many forum users have absolutely no clue what /etc is? I can’t explain that some unix guy way back when named it that instead of /Configuration Files. It just sounds backwards.
I know gobolinux is fighting against it, but I am surprised I don’t read more about it. Good to see OSNews covered it today, maybe it will give people more awareness of ‘hey, now that it’s 2008 this is really frickin stupid’.
HAProxy is used for load balancing. There was a restructure for the queue system:
“haproxy versions 1.3.15.2 and 1.3.14.6 have been released to fix a major bug in request queue handling. The problem was that due to a design problem, it was possible for new requests to be immediately served by a server before a request in queue would be served. That caused some requests to remain in queue until they reached the queue timeout, after which either they would eventually be served, or return a 503 error code to the client”
So if you don’t want to return errant 503 codes, you should update your packages. I made packages for Ubuntu Hardy, SLES 9, SLES 10 and OpenSUSE 11, if you test them and they don’t work let me know.
After reading Sebastian Kügler’s blog with KDE 4.1 screenshots, I am officially installing kde 4.1 on a few boxes. This would be my first foray into KDE world since about 2000. Nice work guys!
Matthew Garrett conspiracy theory of the day — Ok so this Ryan guy was apparently banned from the forums, I didn’t see the situation but based on previous interactions with the community as a whole, we all know how everyone goes “CoC!!! OMG!!” so that was likely.
What I love is in this link, in the comments, they somehow get to the point where it’s one big conspiracy and everyone is trying to cover it up. Entertaining read? Absolutely. Reality? Not so sure 
Whats happening on the internet:
Just thought I would update everyone, I contacted Foxconn as I am sure many others did, and here is what they said:
“Dear Steven:
Thank you for taking the time to make us aware of the situation and also suggestions. Foxconn has no intention to reject Linux. As we all know that Linux is an open source system and there are various flavors available in the market, and that is why we could not perform the specific function tests on every version of Linux. However, we do have tested some Linux systems previously.
As for the Linux issue, our FAE team is working on this issue and hopefully it can be resolved soon. So if you have bought any retail Foxconn motherboards and got this issue please email us your system configuration and problem descriptions. We will be happy to look into it.
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.”
I am satisfied with their response, I don’t believe there is anything to worry about there.
Recently I gave openSUSE a try just out of pure curiosity. One of their biggest weaknesses is that their community feels like a veritable ghost town. With that said, I wanted to both give kudos, and appreciate how much ubuntuforums.org rock (the people make the forums)!
Here are my top 5 threads that were really ‘cool’ to me:
I have a second blog in which I don’t go on any rants etc, just post technical stuff. I just posted a entry today on Linux memory management, especially with databases. One thing that was confusing to me originally is that, for instance, on an Oracle server, I have a free output like this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 16027 15889 138 0 48 14673
-/+ buffers/cache: 1166 14860
Swap: 5122 486 4636
So there is like 15 gigs cached out of 16 gigs total. Obviously with 2 million oracle processes, it is hard to tell how much memory it is actually using, and I stumbled on the ‘ipcs’ command which lets me see those shared buffer sizes.
If you have a bit more insight into this and can proof read the blog post, that would be great to let me know if I made a mistake. Thanks!
I am a big fan of the symfony web framework, found a cool article on oracle’s site: Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor. If you want to use symfony with oracle, that is a great start.
I made a custom app about a year and a half ago using Symfony + Oracle 10g, so it’s good to see it getting exposure now (there was almost no information on it when I gave it a shot, clarity is nice).
Been playing with this a little bit. If you are using Eclipse, and it won’t run the app and complains about ‘gant.gant’ not being in classpath, then your GRAILS_HOME variable has a trailing slash. Remove it and it works. It is sad how long that took me to figure out