http://system-log.tyr.org.uk Skyscraper I love you Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:07:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To use mod_proxy_html on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard you can do this. Download it from here. Unpack it then run $ sudo apxs -ci -I /usr/include/libxml2 mod_xml2enc.c $ sudo apxs -ci -I /usr/include/libxml2 -I . mod_proxy_html.c Then update you httpd.conf to include LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.dylib LoadModule proxy_html_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_html.so LoadModule xml2enc_module libexec/apache2/mod_xml2enc.so Also take a look at the proxy-httpd.conf file that ships with ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2009/11/25/using-mod_proxy_html-on-os-x-10-6/ It's been assumed for a long time, by myself and others, that RAID 1+0 is the obvious choice for enterprise storage from a performance and reliability point of view. I've recently had cause to review this opinion and (re)read some articles about the subject. Read on for links to some interesting ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2009/06/17/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-dual-parity-raid/ There are 3 ways to run Linux binaries on a Solaris Express X86 server. xVM VirtualBox xVM Server Linux Branded Zone This post takes a look at the interesting world of the Linux branded zone. I've posted about VirtualBox before and I hope to take a look at xVM Server (Xen) in a future ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2009/01/26/linux-zones-on-solaris-express-x86/ For many years I've used an install of Gallery to manage my photos online, with a customised front end written for AxKit, and I've also been using Aperture to manage my photo library. Managing two separate libraries became a chore and meant that photos weren't been uploaded for friends and ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2009/01/21/a-customized-aperture-web-gallery/ 'Your Next Bus' is the system used in West Yorkshire (and other regions) to provide live bus timetables. Some time ago I wrote a Dashboard Widget to display live timetables on a OS X Dashboard. I had a request to develop this for the iPhone and so I knocked something ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/08/05/your-next-bus-on-your-iphone/ I'm writing some training documentation for Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). Reading through my notes I was reminded of the 'VCS Simulator'. You can import an existing cluster config into the Simulator and use the (Windows) GUI as if it was a live cluster, changing the config, faling things over etc. ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/07/09/vcs-simulator/ I've been wanting to have a play around with both the Solaris Cluster Express work that's coming out of OpenSolaris and also VirtualBox, a virtualization platform that Sun recently acquired and have moved under their xVM banner. So wanting to kill two birds with one stone I thought I'd try ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/06/27/building-a-solaris-cluster-express-cluster-in-a-virtualbox-on-opensolaris/ VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta is out. It's a free upgrade for all current VMware Fusion users. Notable updates include Multiple Monitor support and Direct-X 9 Shader Model 2. To give the Shader Model 2 a whirl I fired up Half Life 2. It had refused to run in any previous VMware Fusion ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/05/06/vmware-fusion-20-beta-half-life-2/ Recently I posted about installing Solaris Express on a Mac Pro. This morning OpenSolaris was released, the first release of what was Project Indiana. Prior to this release the outputs of the various OpenSolaris projects were available within Solaris Express, however now they have their own distribution which has several ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/05/06/opensolaris-200805-on-mac-pro/ I'm on the train! Finally WiFi is free in standard class on the east coast mainline. So that's at least one thing National Express have done right so far. I'd always assumed that the train WiFi was supported by a 3G network, or something similar. However my outbound IP address is ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/04/15/national-express-wifi-is-satellite-based/