Lots of PosgreSQL reading. I have to make a nice setup of Apache/Jboss and Postgresql cluster, where Apache/Jboss will be in load balancing, and PostgreSQL in fail-over (high-availability) configuration. Apache is by far the easiest to start with.
Year: 2003
The Art of Unix Programming
Spent most of the weekend reading the Eric Raymond’s draft of The Art of Unix Programming, which appears to be surprisingly usefull and easy to read. I think I’ve already recommended to all people that I know. If I haven’t, here is your chance.
Random bits
Today I did have the first production restore using amanda. It went like a charm. I’ve spent some time with Red Hat Network today, since updates were coming faster then I could put them – kernel, php, openldap, kerberos, xpdf, etc.
Half of the day was spent on a somewhat lengthy presentation by HP guys. Few of them were local, rest came from Greece. Nice talk about HP itself, hardware (mostly Proliant servers and blades), and software (mostly OpenView). Few of them were rather impressed by our home-grown solution based on Nagios (aka Netsaint), MRTG, RT help desk, tkined/scotty, mtr, and few other tools (maybe later I will fill in the links, but now I am too lazy and tired).
Mondays
Monday… I hate mondays… I hate mondays more with every next monday. First, I just didn’t like them. Then I run mkfs.ext3 on a wrong partition exactly at the same time as the tape library chews the latest backup. After a hard-working weekend. Next monday I get tornado with twisters and few huge garbage bins flying around my new car. If that still seems not enough, next monday (today), I get snow (!!!) and a drunk bird which kisses the window right in front of me in full speed. I think it dropped dead down. Maybe it’s alive. I don’t care. I just hate mondays soooo much…
Columbia
It seems that I am the last one to hear about Columbia shuttle. Tragic.
Someone sent me a nice link with comparision of Russian Buran and American Shuttle.