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Archive for August, 2006
Revenge of the shift.
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A series I started way back in March of this year is beginning to wrap itself up as I push the project into production.
You may remember the purpose of this is to give a bit of a primer and ethnography, of sorts, from a primairly Microsoft, IIS world to a Linux/Apache world.
Well, recently the second server came in and I’ve been getting heartbeat up and rolling. The complex thing about this is that the nics that service the shared IP address must be in the same slot and referenced the same (i.e. eth0) otherwise sadness will occur.
After the fold, a brief overview of heartbeat and a plea for questions.
My birthday is coming up shortly
1In the next few weeks, my birthday will be coming up; I’m looking forward to it. Growing up, my birthday always fell in a great time of the year. It was still warm, at least for a little while longer, my friends were back in school and it was just nice. There were a couple b-days growing up that were a bit on the cool side (60′s-70′s), but most we were able to get out and play.
Today reminded me of that.
While getting out to mow the overgrown grass, I was able to run around the yard with Aidan a bit and that was a blast. Aidan tonight discovered bugs; he was sitting with MJ and found a bug that he put in his hand and just stared at for a while. So, while he and momma romped around the front yard, I truged my way through the knee high grass in some places (it’s been raining alot). The sun was out, some of our late summer flowers were blooming and life was just great.
Yeah for late summer!
Spammers Suck
0I’ve made a slight switch; like other blogs I’ve been reading lately, I’ve decided to go to an all moderated blog. It seems the past week or so, spammers have been targeting this wonderful little corner of the Universe. So, until that cools down a bit, all comments are going to be moderated; all, except for spam, will be approved.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus?
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‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/29/bonghits.4jesus.ap/index.html
Basically, a high school student gets in trouble for lifting a banner that says ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ up and he’s taking it to the Surpreme Court for violating his 1st amendment rights.
*sigh*
Stonith (the best piece of documentation ever)
0Just to show how geeky IT people are, this is the documentation to a program I’ve been trying to install called STONITH (beyond the fact that it stands for Shoot the other Node in the head, the documentation made me laugh:
STONITH is a technique for NodeFencing, where the errant node which might have run amok with cluster resources is simply shot in the head. Normally, when an HA system declares a node as dead, it is merely speculating that it is dead. STONITH takes that speculation and makes it reality. “Make it so, Number One”.
Entymological note: STONITH started out as a misspelling of another acronym (STOMITH), where the M stood for machine. At one point, AlanRobertson realized he had been misspelling it, but he decided he preferred his misspelled version, because it appealed to his sense of whimsy. It seems he liked the sort of Biblical feel to the the sound of STONITH, which to his ear is similar to the pseudo-King-Jamesean verb “stoneth” – as in “I stoneth thou”. This appeal was enhanced by the parallels between a cluster fatally casting out one of its members for disobeying cluster rules, to the Biblical use of stoning as a fatal method of casting a human out of the community for their transgressions against God.