Updated the Recompiling a kernel the Debian way howto to reflect kernel 2.6 and added a new Using distcc with debian one to suppliment the debian kernel recompile howto.
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Today I got another Cobalt Blue Cichlid for the 4 foot cichlid tank, he is only a rather small fry and the other fish look massive in proportion. One of my original 3 cichlids was a female Cobalt Blue and she is HUGE in comparison to the new baby. I think we are pretty much complete in this tank now as far as population is concered. Next step would be to introduce some more rocks etc.
I also purchased lots of ‘live rock’ for the marine tank that I have been slowly setting up. I have had salt water stabilizing for the past 6 weeks and have finally introduced 10kg of the live rock today. Also got some test kits for the tank. It will take about a month for the live rock to cycle in the tank before introducing some marine fish, but I can start getting some coral and trace elements in as little as a week which is cool.
I am thinking of getting off my arse and setting up some project pages on the cichlid and marine tanks as they progress. It is only one of hundreds of things in my “todo” list. One day…
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Things have been super busy with all things work related. Lots of hours, not enough time off… Things have been getting pretty interesting though. Lots of our recurring problems have been solved with RHAS2.1’s e40 kernel along with a patch from RedHat for vm which fixes our LowMem exhaustion problems with oracle. This has allowed us to get on with more project related tasks which has been great.
Current things on my plate at the moment are getting 28 IBM xSeries HS20 blade servers up and running initially with RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1, tho later down the track these should be upgraded to RHEL AS 3.0 which means a *lot* more of our day to day issues will be fixed. This also pretty much doubles our non-prod server fleet (dev/test etc). I can only assume that a similar setup will be pushed to production environments. Given that they are considerably different to the fully populated x440/x445 servers that the environment is currently running on, 8 way CPU & 16Gb of ram compared to the HS20’s 2 CPU & 8Gb ram… Will be interesting how they perform once Oracle starts molestoring them.
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