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27th August 2008, 08:16 pm
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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17th April 2008, 11:31 pm
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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12th April 2008, 10:43 pm
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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