Monthly Archives: October 2006

ThinkingLinux ’06

October 20, 2006 – 4:32 pm

ThinkingLinux ’06 was held in Melbourne a few days ago. It was organised by Synergy Plus with sponsorship by RedHat. Novel and a few others. I gave a talk on Open Source in the Data Centre. Luckily this talk was after lunch so I got to do some editing in the morning sessions to tweak [...]

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Open Source in the Data Centre

October 12, 2006 – 8:24 am

Next Tuesday (17th Oct) I’ll be giving a presentation at Thinking Linux ’06 in Melbourne. The talk is entitled Open Source in the Data Centre and I’ll be covering things like Load Balancing “Stuff” (IPVS, keepalived, heartbeat) Monitoring using Nagios and MRTG/rrdtool Authentication with OpenLDAP anf FreeRADIUS and a whole lot of other random things [...]

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LCA2007 Paper Review

October 9, 2006 – 3:32 pm

The seven review team met all day Saturday to work out which of the almost 300 submissions were going to make it into the conference. I had created some statistics based on the reviews the team had performed, this helped the team easily pick the coolest papers and the mildly cool for inclusion and exclusion. [...]

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