Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. I have to wonder: to what extent did the usability, or lack thereof, of the control room instruments contribute to the disaster? I mean, just imagine trying to make sense of a reactor’s status from this panel indicating fuel rod positions. (The complete [...]
The problem with mirroring your disks is that one side of the mirror will invariably fail two weeks later. This has happened to me several times, first under NetBSD (with its excellent RAIDFrame technology, a worthy competitor, functionally, to Sun Volume Manager) and now with the Sun LVM mirror that I set up several weeks [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I realized that the knowledge I was going to get out of Asterisk was limited by the amount of hand-holding that Asterisk@Home provides. Don’t get me wrong — A@H is a great way to get started with Asterisk, as it comes with a huge variety of features already [...]
If you work in IT, and you don’t already read The Daily WTF, you should. The site bills itself as documenting “curious perversions in IT” and I have to say that this is an understatement; the code that frequently shows up there is bad enough that the word “poor” does not begin to describe it. [...]
It seems that within the last few months, much has been made of so-called Web 2.0 sites. The fact that it is impossible to even attribute a noun to describe “Web 2.0″ — is it a paradigm? a metaphor? a meme? (ugh) — should be enough to convince you that “Web 2.0″ is just the [...]
(the above is a hilarious typo in the website for VON Canada)
This month’s Toronto Asterisk Users’ Group meeting was held at the Voice on the Net Canada 2006 conference. Given the audience (business users and implementers of largely commercial telecommunications equipment) Asterisk was probably a new concept to them, which meant that some of the [...]
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