amongst other things...
If Xen is your thing, Cory von Wallenstein's relatively recent article on IPv6, Ipv6, and ARP on Xen might be of interest to you.
I'm unsure if his patches have been merged into the main Xen source, but it's still an interesting read and useful if you're wanting to secure Xen domU's, or experiment with IPv6.
...the stupid are everywhere.
It's an old joke from the days of Red Dwarf, and I'm sure I've used it before many times. However, reading utter uninformed crap from a school teacher, regarding free and open source software warrants the usage again, in my mind.
I can understand that some one has a difference in opinion and I can understand the right to complain. What I don't understand is why you'd write such a thing if you appear to know absolutely nothing about the subject†.
The thing I most love about the article is that it ends in such a childish way. The 9 year old nerd in me loves that.
† Scrub that. All you need to do is take a look at the BBC's open comments to see why.
I tend to buy geek and nerd related books for two main reasons: 1, because I don't like taking my laptop to the bog and reading, and 2, because there's nothing really like a book. There are a few others, which orientate around being able to read a book away from the computer or laptop, relaxing on the sofa, or in the garden, but they aren't as important to me - but mostly only because I do my best thinking in the bathroom.
Anyway. 'Running Xen' was on the few books I had delivered a few days ago. To clarify this is a book on running Xen, the open source hypervisor. Like all books I was hoping for something that delivered a little bit more than the man pages and online docs. Sadly this wasn't really the case.
Now I'm not saying that 'Running Xen' is a bad book. It's not. It's just missing that "something more", that "je ne sais quoi" (I cannot believe I've just typed that and not removed it). If you're going to somewhere without man pages or online docs, then it's an invaluable reference.
Worth £21 (it's current cost on Amazon)? Without reading more books on Xen, I honestly don't know, but despite feeling as I do, I am glad that I've got it.
Mostly because I've had some awesome ideas, whilst on the bog with it.
This popped up on the Bath and Bristol LUG mailing list a few days ago, from Shevek, and I thought it was pretty "cute" -
Scientific method is the process of experimentation and observation. Computer science is therefore defined as "Let's try it and see if it works." Computing, on the other hand, is doing it, knowing that it will work. Never trust a computer scientist.
I'm liking XCache. "It does exactly what it says on the tin", and all from the people who brought the world LigHTTPD. And that makes me wonder. Should I be taking a long hard look at Apache HTTPD?
