I learned recently that Wikimedia, the foundation that is making Wikipedia, is on the road to migrate their servers to a single Linux Distribution. Until then, they are using various flavors of Linux Redhat and Fedora.
They said that this move will will allow to simplify their system administration.
Wikimedia has around 400 servers running and this [...]
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Wikimedia announces they will use Ubuntu Server
10 October 2008 – 10:39
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High Availability
26 September 2008 – 21:20
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First, before to talk about the definition of High Availability, I’d like to introduce the notion of availability. A system is considered unavailable when it becomes unusable or even usable but with too limited functions.
There are many reasons for this and some of these are commonly called Single Point of Failure (SPOF), others are most [...]
Change your default folders in gnome
10 September 2008 – 21:22
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Last night, I’ve been stuck with my Ubuntu distribution as I wanted to add templates for creating new documents. The main problem is that I don’t like to have too much folders in my home directory and I couldn’t find the Templates folder. Recreating didn’t solve the problem.
Because yes, that’s where the file templates should [...]
DNA-Framework - Database Abstraction Layer
30 August 2008 – 19:41
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When I decided to re-write the DNA-Framework, I didn’t know where to start first. I was thinking about creating all the security structure first, but I then realised that mostly the security infrastructure will use the dabatase to store information.
So I first needed to create the DAL.
The DAL must stay : easy to use, coherent [...]
Low frequency publication
27 August 2008 – 10:24
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I’ve reduced frequency of my publications these days, for two reasons.
First, I’m re-writing the DNA-Framework, I don’t know yet what will come out of it, probably something big ;) I’m not sure yet if it will be released as OpenSource framework or not. I’ll decide that when version 1.0 will be ready.
And the other thing [...]
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