I can’t resist sharing a few pictures of my lab at work: Total: 100 nodes……
19/06/2007 Lire la suite...-
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Cool stuff
Xfce’s bug 2712 has been marked RESOLVED/FIXED. This Enhancement bug had been opened by me, the goal was to have Orage, the Xfce clock & calendar, able to « subscribe » to other ical files. Now that it’s done, and in a very nice way, it means that future versions of Orage will display Claws Mail’s…
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Stuff that happens to cluster sysadmins
Suddenly getting 60% packet loss between the LAN and the cluster, just because kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. Fix the problem by raising the limit from 65536 to 2097152 slots. If this limit is reached, that’ll eat 700MB of memory, ouch….
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Xubuntu’s default email client
I’ve recently been dragged into a sterile discussion about Xubuntu’s default email client, which is currently Thunderbird. Apparently, some people would prefer to have Claws Mail instead, as it’s more lightweight. Feature-wise, Claws Mail has, in my opinion, nothing to envy to Thunderbird. However, from this discussion, which took place both on Xubuntu’s forum and…
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Xfce 4.4
Last time I tried to switch to Xfce, I abandoned due to lack of time to configure it to my needs/habits. This weekend I tried again, spent the necessary hour to get my panel launchers in order and everything, and started to test things… I’m impressed. Xfce 4.4 works really well. It’s much more reactive…
31/01/2007 Lire la suite...
