http://inercia.selfip.net Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:08:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://inercia.selfip.net/2008/04/29/network-simulation-with-virtual-machines/ My 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 ... http://inercia.selfip.net/2008/04/16/ccache/ From 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 ... http://inercia.selfip.net/2008/04/15/open-computer/ From 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 ... http://inercia.selfip.net/2008/04/14/dead-sea-effect/  [flashvideo filename=files/movies/new-york.flv /] Slideshow of my travel to New York. Five days in the Big Apple. You can see the complete set of pictures here. http://inercia.selfip.net/2007/08/09/175/