Day 3 woop! An evaluation of gluster: uses distributed metadata, so no bottleneck that comes with a metadata server, can or will do do some replication/snapshot. Virtualization of mass storage (tapes). Using IBM's TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and ERMM. Where ERMM manages the libraries, so that TSM only sees …

Guten aben! Darmstadt is a very beautiful city. It's quite old and there are lots of parks and eh, cool, houses. A person from the UK said yesterday (in the pub Ratkeller) something like this: "A particle physicist's raison d'être is to find complexities, they wouldn't turn away from one …

On theregister there was recently a post that maybe HP will announce the new EVA's in Vegas in June - the P6000. I just opened a discussion on the ITRC forum, maybe we'll see some more posts there. I myself am hoping for some thin provisioning or why not SAS backends …

Morning. Got in last night at around 2140 local time. I should've done a little more exact research for how to find my hotel. Had to walk some 30 minutes (parts of it the wrong way) to get to it. But at least I made it to see some ice …

Hey! This is an awesome little trick I just learnt about: instead of doing mv file1.txt file1.txt.old you can do this mv file1.txt{,.old} and it will automagically add a .old at the end of the filename. This is called a brace expansion: http://tldp.org …

I'm heading to Hepix this whole week! Looks like there's some really interesting topics like: Lustre, glustre, ipv6, stuff about the CERN it facilities, Scientific Linux report, cloud/grid virtualization, Oracle Linux. I'll sure be doing a bit of blogging about what's going down.

I actually read about this in some comment field somewhere else, but here is a great explanation of my intention: http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html#Tip-03 I thought first that I could just e-mail to [email protected] and it would automagically come to that e-mail. That's not …

Ever experienced this relatively frustrating phenomena? My setup: Windows 7 x64 with an ATI Card HD5700 series. A logitech wireless keyboard+mouse. Camera just keeps on spinning and if you move the mouse it changes pitch, speed or whatever. Things to try: Got a joypad/joystick in the vicinity? Plug …

Giving this one a shot :) I will be compiling it myself as well. Squid for those who do not know is a proxy server. Proxys can be used for many things, but one great thing if you have a thinner connection to the Internet, you can use this to speed …

Preface Two previous posts: Part1 - thoughts before installing Part2 - ultimate boot CD - for diagnostics I ran the laptop with google-chrome 10 and two flash-pages loading all night, no blue-screens, no errors in event viewer. No actually it looks and feels pretty ok. It's not very fast, but I suspect this …