Those of you who have been following my journal closely know that I’ve been working on a project at work to migrate our main web and Java cluster from SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Well, we did the cut-over tonight and I’m pleased to note that everything pretty much [...]
I’ve started investigating higher-order system configuration management tools, in particular, Puppet, in order to help manage CBC’s web infrastructure. About two years ago, the only player in this space was cfengine, which at the time struck me as quite functional, but also quite arcane. Puppet seems to be much easier to learn. But I’ve come [...]
A while ago I wrote a post about how the Windows Media video experience is sub-optimal on non-Windows computers — in particular, Macintoshes — and why I think this will trigger a run towards Flash on-demand and eventually Flash live. Here’s a concrete example: over the last six months to a year, and perhaps longer, [...]
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