Linux
A testimony to Linux resilience
A client released a new version of their website onto 20 AWS m1.medium instances (current site at peak load runs approximately 60 m1.medium webservers). It was clearly an unsuccessful release, but what was surprising was the system did not actually crash, it was effectively a meltdown, but servers were still operational with load averages > 100.
Read moreSetting up a Virtual IP address (VIP)
These instructions are for CentOS/Redhat Linux distributions. Identify your current NIC’s and IP addresses in use. $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:98:9C:A6 inet addr:192.168.53.201 Bcast:192.168.53.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 0080::230:48ff:fe98:9ca6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6159779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6137085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1158210510 (1.
Read moreWhat’s new in MySQL 5.4.1
Absolutely nothing? 5.4.0 was released with a change in the MySQL Binary distributions , delivering only 1 64bit Linux platform and two Sun Solaris platforms. This was officially announced on April 21 2009 however the 5.
Read moreGetting wireless working on Ubuntu Macbook
I run Ubuntu 9.04 Januty on my Macbook. Previously installing Ubuntu 8.10, wireless worked automatically, for 9.04 it did not. This is what I did to fix it. Verify your Macbook is seeing the Broadcom controller.
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