All of a sudden it is a cluster! For over ten years a single machine was serving all the files we are mirroring. Today we started to use a second machine to distribute the load hoping to improve the user experience.

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Today I finally managed to release a new version of terminatorX, which had been broken for quite a while as some changes in either gtk+ or X.org broke the mouse grabbing code. Anyway, just recently I bought a new mouse as the left button of its predecessor was worn out. I decided to go for […]

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Long ago I’ve spent a day in Frankfurt. Since I’ve never been there I went for the first parking I saw. And I got the following ticket with an interesting date. In the evening I got an amount displayed on the machine that slightly exceeds the credit level of my credit card. (Sorry for the […]

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During the last week I’ve replaced the disks of my software RAID with larger ones as the capacity was exceeded. While this is theoretically an easy task, I had to learn a few things along the way: Trying to perform such an upgrade on a headless system without console will fail. fdisk silently fails to […]

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