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DRDB and link compression

Recently I was setting up DRBD (in short: “block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters”) between two data centers.

DRBD doesn’t apply any form of compression on the data that is replicated; is it a good idea to enable compression in the VPN link if you replicate your data with DRBD over Internet? Here is a quick test.

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HP loves Linux the Windows way

Quite recently, HP announced a new line of thin clients with Debian Etch 4.0 preinstalled. That’s certainly good news for Linux, but why HP’s Linux support is Windows only?

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New wave of Blogspot spam

Did you also notice an increase of unwanted “Blogspot messages” either in your inbox or spam folder? These messages contain a link to http://<some_random_letters_and_numbers>.blogspot.com, but in the end, you end up on entirely different page - why? Let’s try to analyse the page and find out.

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