Archive for December, 2006
SLES 10 Upgrades: done! So what happens now?
This quarter we Webmasters have been focusing our attention on upgrading our servers to SLES 10 - SuSE Linux Entreprise Server 10. We were running SLES 9 before and needed to move to the new release for two important reasons: MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5. Apache 2.2 was a nice bonus, as well as [...]
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Eclipse is Us! Time for Junior Jobs?
I’ll jump on the “Eclipse is You” bandwagon, but I’ll propose a new theme: can Eclipse be Us instead of just You?
The common message I’ve been reading in the past few posts is that “You don’t do enough”. You committers don’t do enough, You users don’t do enough and You foundation people don’t do enough. [...]
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Mylar is on fire!
Look who just showed up in #5 spot on the downloads page? Mylar. It’s hot - really hot. We’ll have to buy more servers just to keep up with the popularity of this project! Well, maybe not, but scoring 5th spot on the top-10 popular Eclipse.org projects is amazing. Congrats to Mik [...]
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Node5 has arrived!
Yesterday we received ‘node5′ — a fifth front-end processing node for our cluster. It’s essentially identical to the four other nodes: HP Integrity rx2620 with two Itanium2 1.6GHz CPUs, 8GB of RAM and three 146GB SCSI disks connected to a 6420 RAID controller. The server has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, and we added a [...]
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