Author Archives: Ian

When kangaroos fight back This is the funnest thing I’ve heard in many days at Andrew Forward, highlights shamelessly copied here: Australian virtual reality simulator for helicopter combat training wanted to include the local marsupials’ movements and reactions to helicopters. Continue reading When kangaroos fight backThis is the funnest thing…→

Building a Stable and Clustered J2EE Environment? Slashdork posted the question (with a better than average data/noise response) and this reply which can be summed up as : Apache (with mod_jk2) load-balancing solution in front for the static content, JBoss Continue reading Building a Stable and Clustered J2EE Environment?S…→

Blog updates various small changes to the blog Template making it flow better, and adding an email address in such a way to defeat the spam bots. Also experimenting with a windows based blogging editor called wbloggar found via Lotus Continue reading Blog updatesvarious small changes to the blog Temp…→

Installing, Running and Maintaining Large Linux Clusters Found via SlashDork is this piece on buiding up Linux clusters to more than 1000 nodes… experience confronting some of the LHC scale computing challenges: scalability, automation, hardware diversity, security, and rolling OS Continue reading Installing, Running and Maintaining Large Linux Cl…→

Murphy is a alive and well, and managing your project Found on Rules In Project Management (more stuff there to) via Globe and Mail. I feel like I’ve lived many of these over the years, which is not a good Continue reading Murphy is a alive and well, and managing your project→