mysql replication – some tips
so.. i have couple of master machines and few slaves. some of slaves are offsite – 60ms away from primary site.
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pre-seeding & automated installation of debian
objective – get basic debian set up automatically on dell’s PE 1950 / 2950 servers. without much manual clicking.
något på svenska
as side effect of my fruitless swedish lessons – some text about Stanislaw Lem’s ‘futurological congress’
firefighting – asn32 and quagga crash
debian lenny, out-of-the-box quagga_0.99.10-1lenny1_i386 symptoms of disaster in bgpd.log: 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: Assertion `len < str_size' failed in file bgp_aspath.c, line 619, function aspath_make_str_count 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: Backtrace for 14 stack frames: 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: [bt 0] /usr/lib/libzebra.so.0(zlog_backtrace+0x2a) [0xb7f50a5a] 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: [bt 1] /usr/lib/libzebra.so.0(_zlog_assert_failed+0x77) [0xb7f50be7] [..]
2x full bgp feed with quagga
maybe someone will find this one handy. it’s description + config file for bgp setup i’ve recently put on production using debian lenny + quagga.
quagga under debian lenny after upgrade to etch…
…does not work. ok – i’ve failed miserably. there was debian etch with quagga and bgp working. i’ve done apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade and quagga stopped working.
spain
20090317-malaga,antequera,torremolinos 20090318-torremolinos,ronda,manilva 20090319-manilva,gibraltar,la barrosa 20090320-la barrosa,cadiz,sevilla 20090321-sevilla,carmona,almodovar del rio,cordoba 20090322-cordoba 20090323-cordoba,sierra nevada,granada 20090324-granada,calahonda 20090325-calahonda,malaga 20090326-malaga pics: http://fot.kudzia.eu/index.php/20090326-andalucia lesson learned: leaving car with couple of backpacks at the back seat in spain is bad idea. window to back door in ford focus + replacement costs 90E.
FAR
far is old school console file manager for windows. since quite a while it was open sourced but i’ve never had enough patience to find actual builds of it. now i got them: you can download lagal free builds of far woot !
data recovery from dying hard disk with dd
situation: i receive notebook with hdd in agonal state. winxp no longer boots up. i decide to connect hdd to desktop pc. bios detects it, but operating system [another winxp] is unable to recognize partitions. surprisingly linux [namely knoppix] detects partitions and is even able to read some files from secondary partition. i take another ... Read More
around northern Spain
when – 20070925-20071002, where – around northern Spain
weekend off : poland
random snapshot of unusual weekend. i took a day off on previous Friday and got flight to Poland. objective – attend the wedding of kov & Monika.
spain
victims and perpetrators at the same time: Thomas and me, time of events: 20070303-20060310, place: Spain. mainly Andalusia.
200608-iceland
iceland 20060815-20060823
oslo
one-day trip took with rav & ola in Norway’s capital
guests
i think i should start having regular job as tour-guide around goteborg. for last two weeks i was pretty busy with showing around two of my friends from poland – ola & rav. we’ve visited all usual suspects in goteborg, went to oslo, took sauna few times, had a party. i’ll do my best to ... Read More
slacker season
summer. 20-25 C degrees, sunshine. bike/swimming/going around just for sake of it just about every evening. almost perfect. some of those rare in-front-of-the-pc activities: i’ve installed ubuntu to see if it’s any good. verdict? e.. i already have debian, why should i get something like it that is not exactly debian? maybe if i would ... Read More
day after effect
usual ‘day after effect’. i’m not hanged over but yet not everything goes as it should. you wake up, feel quite fresh but yet failing to figure out what’s the point and meaning of things that happen around is more painful than usually. it’s that simple – after few drinks i get more depressed [or ... Read More
holiday plans
first time in my life – after 3 years of miserable career in it business – i’ve faced unavoidable : i have to take my holidays, and there is no discussion about it. so i started planning. i think i’ll go for few weekly trips. some destinations i consider: dublin [really cheap flights from gothenburg ... Read More
this and that
some recent readings… – it might be surprising but i do read. something. sometimes..
everything fails
…or more precisely already failed, is failing right now or definitively will fail. i’m getting this lesson one more time in a hard way. number of anomalies i’ve encountered during last 3 weeks exceeded critical threshold.