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Posts hopefully from a Christian Perspective on current Technology. The Harbinger of counter-flow.
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.
John “I’m a PC” Hodgeman on Net Neutrality
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A very good, funny explanation of Net Neutrality; warning: some offensiveness contained within…
Hillarious sentence taken out of context…
1At Microsoft, researchers are working on the idea of “predestination.” They envision a software program that guesses where you are traveling based on previous trips, and then offers information that might be useful based on where the software thinks you are going.
So, perhaps a new definition of TULIP for the Microsoft world could be:
- Total Depravity of Open Source Software
- Unconditional acceptance of the EULA
- Limited Support contracts
- Irresistable hotfixes
- Perseverance of the end-user
What do you think? 
From a NY Times article on new types of robots that are being developed.
2 down, one more to go.
02041 days
We’ve passed the half way point of the academic summer and my ‘Summer of websites’ is coming along well. I just sent the second of three sites are now released into the world.
This one is an mp3 store for one of my favorite bands/artists – Bill Mallonee and the Vigilantes of Love. In an effort to get an extensive back catalog into distribution again, I took all 15 of his studio albums and put them up as mp3s (320Kbps VBR).
The php script I used is the 1-2-3 Music Store from Easybe.com. It’s good, in fact it works really well for this application, but a caveat is that the documentation is sparse; you need to do some digging to make it work for you. Not bad, but there is some feeling of accomplishment that comes with making something work, I think, well.
Anyway, let me know what you think. I know a few of you all are VOL fans, so enjoy!