ShimmyT Was Here

I am thankful for a lot of things this day and everyday. So for everyone out there happy thanksgiving and hopefully I will see you sometime this weekend.

On to some tech stuff. I guess it’s been a while since I’ve been on my Wii. It’s taing a hell of a long time to update. I’m hoping they have some sort of demo system setup now. Had to even change my wireless security around to get it to connect to the internet. I’m also still playing Gears of War 2. Just downloaded a demo of Fifa 09, and Lego Batman too. Still waiting for my 360 live card to come in the mail as well. I’ve already got challenges from friends for NBA 2k9.

Also I am bringing my moodle cluster plan back from the dead. I’ve got to remove some IP’s so it doesn’t interfere with production but so far so good. This time we will have much better testng in place before we go live. Keeping the fingers crossed for that one.

It’s been a super busy few weeks. A few major things though. First I now understand why Red Hat is the #1 enterprise linux distribution. Our linux team (Rage and I) was charged with coming up with a cluster solution for our online classes: moodle. After learning a completely new distribution, and extreme googling I’ve been able to cluster 3 linux virtual machines inside of VMware with load balancing. It was really tricky, and I’m in the process of writing up a nice howto for it. There isn’t much of any documentation for it on the intarwebs so hopefully this will be my way of contributing to the community.

Next the EEE has been giving me some issues with the updated 0804 bios update. So I’ve been trying to battle with that. Overall though everything is hunky dory. Anywho this post has taken far too long to write so I am going to wrap it up here.