Anycast: The Loophole
A nifty hack that’s possible in IP networks is the ability to share an IP between servers thousands of miles apart.
Anycast: Networking Introduction
Anycasting is a way to scale geographically by having multiple servers sharing the same IP address.
Zenoss Swap Threshold Fixes
One of the recurring problems I have with Zenoss is fixing the swap threshold issue. Basically, if your swap space is less than 1G, you’re stuck with an alarm informing you that there’s less than 1G of swap total. The options are to hack it to increase the threshold (by decreasing the minimum-free threshold), or …
Thoughts on Privacy
This post is pretty heavy on the pontificating, but I’ll tie it back into GNOME at the end, I swear. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about privacy lately. Most of the shiny things here on the internet are some type of service where you abandon some degree of privacy to an intermediary in return for …