3+ weeks in Portugal
i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.
balkans – again
so i’ve hit the road again – packed my trusted 8-10yo travel bag, took laptop, camera + 3 lenses, kindle with 400+documents waiting to be read or deleted, mp3 player, gps, two mobile phones, earplugs, some old clothes and nothing more. i’ve even left intentionally at home travel guides borrowed from the local library – ... Read More
agentless monitoring of linux servers from ossec
we’ve been poking around ossec for a while. it’s nice and all but… i never liked the idea of opening additional ports on the production server or letting it ‘call home’ with alerts to the central monitoring machine. i prefer ‘polling’ model where central server communicates with monitoring nodes. ideally all should be done via ... Read More
higher TCP ICW – real world tests
this post inspired me to check how much performance can we gain by just upgrading to more recent kernel on the internet-facing proxy servers at work.
asia trip – 4/4 philippines
for the last 10 days of my Asian adventure i was traveled around Philippines.
asia trip 3/4 – thailand
from Singapore i flew to Bangkok Thailand and stayed there for 5 days.
asia trip 2/4 – singapore
after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.
asia trip 1/4 – hong kong
i’ve spent last month in Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. totally new experience in many ways.
Benford’s law
by a coincidence [process well described in this xkcd’s comics] i’ve stumbled on the definition of Benford’s law. since i have access to quite a lot of different economic & financial data i’ve decided to check if that law applies also to it.
morocco
in search for some February sunshine i’ve spent 11 days in Morocco.
cloning the server using rsync
braindump of things to do/directories not to copy when cloning physical debian to a vm using rsync
sopa/pipa/acta
while sopa/pipa legislation in the US seems to be postponed after a wave of protests acta in EU/Poland is doing just fine; acta possibly will be ratified [at least in Poland] without much of the mainstream attention. is pushing this law through the EU parliament going to be the only ‘success’ of otherwise pathetic polish ... Read More
switching reverse proxy from apache2 to nginx
i’ve been planning for a while to move away from apache2 as a reverse proxy in front of java appservs and start using nginx. i had two reasons: nginx can handle much better large number of concurrent connections [something we can make use of if we start using long-poll/comet], nginx gives more control over buffering ... Read More
java7, XMLEncoder problems
for the last few days i’ve been looking into java7… it surely seems faster. but also some of my old code broke when run under it.
ghettovcb hangs while removing the snapshot
i’ve upgraded few vmware esxi 4.1 servers with the latest patches and… obviously something got broken. i use ghettoVCB script to take weekly snapshots of the vms. scripts hanged last night on all servers.
istanbul
i was in istanbul / turkey for 9 days… longest ‘stationary’ holidays in the last couple of years.
croatia / bosnia & herzegovina / serbia
brain-dump from few days of backpacking around ex-yougoslavia
kiev
i’ve spent 3 days in kiev…
kindle 3g
few months ago i bought kindle 3g. below what’s good and what’s bad about it.
“boot failed: not a bootable disk” after migrating kvm image
i’ve migrated some vm from qemu-kvm-0.12.4 to qemu-kvm-0.12.5 and … got unpleasant surprise – unbootable machine.