I’m currently evaluating some alternatives for network simulations with virtual machines in Linux.
So far, the best solution available would be Xen, but other good solutions would be OpenVZ and Linux VRF. Linux VRT provides separate networks profiles for processes, so that one process can have some interfaces, firewall rules and routing table, while other [...]
Archive for April, 2008
ccache
16Apr08My build system has been getting slower in the last weeks. I don’t know if the amount of dependencies in our project, the number of includes-in-headers or maybe the increasing number f third-party libraries has made “make” to go crazy, but, at the end, I can launch the “make debug” and go for a [...]
Open Computer
15Apr08From OSNews:
The website of a Miami-based networking and security solutions reseller became inaccessible Monday, shortly after the company began advertising an unauthorized Mac clone for a fraction of the cost of Apple’s cheapest system. Dubbed OpenMac, the USD 400 offering from Psystar Corporation is described as ‘a low-cost high-performance computing platform’ based on the ongoing [...]
Dead Sea Effect
14Apr08From The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect:
There is an anti-pattern that I’ve seen in large organizations which I have come to call “the Dead Sea effect”. [...] Many large corporate/government IT shops — and not a few small ones — work like the Dead Sea. New hires are brought in as management deems it [...]
