I am going to create a new law in my name: “Anyone who benchmarks a VCS will find their preferred VCS to outperform any other VCS by atleast double”. Now you know what to call this phenomenon.
Archive for August, 2008
Harms’ Law
Aug 26
For anyone who used to play old 80-90’s sierra games, the guys over at AGDI remade Quest for Glory 2. So far it is awesome, and runs under Wine as long as I don’t use an ATI card. Totally awesome.
Got skills? Email me
Aug 19
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.
Filesystem layout
Aug 18
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 packages
Aug 7
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.