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Toolscounterweight forkliftSubmitted by doug on Mon, 2008-01-21 10:42.Physical
a smaller fork lift with no annoying spreaders so you can get right up to the rack New * 1000 lb. capacity Editorial: Most server lifts have either annoying struts in the front that prevent you from going right up to the rack or are very expensive ($6500+). This is a novel model that allows you to go right up to a rack. Imagine you have a Sun X4500 that you want to slide right into the rails. This unit would allow you to slide it right into the rails in contrast to most where the struts on the bottom will get in a the way. It comes in various capacities from 200lb to 1500lb. The center of gravity is close to the back of the forks, so to compensate for this get one with a higher capacity than the gear you are lifting to adjust the center of gravity out on the fork. A 600lb unit should easily be able to handle a 200lb X4500. In addition, the price is about 1/3 of the typical 'server branded lifts' you will find. On the downside, while it comes with a tray to put over the forks, it is not ESD coated. This can be compensated by adding a sheet of ESD material on top of the tray. add new comment | 352 reads
FalconSubmitted by doug on Mon, 2008-01-21 10:13.Database
Falcon is a transactional storage engine, based on Netfrastructure database engine integrated into Mysql New The main goals of Falcon are to exploit large memory for more than just a bigger cache, to use threads and processors for data migration. You can find a video-presentation on Falcon in the MySQL_Tutorials category. What is Falcon
Falcon is NOT
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IPVSSubmitted by doug on Tue, 2008-01-15 12:26.Networking | Virtualization
PVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel Mature IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel, so called Layer-4 switching. IPVS running on a host acts as a load balancer at the front of a cluster of real servers, it can direct requests for TCP/UDP based services to the real servers, and makes services of the real servers to appear as a virtual service on a single IP address. IPVS is commonly used for DNS load balancing as well as other things. add new comment | 315 reads
Stonewall CablesSubmitted by doug on Sun, 2008-01-13 12:09.Availability
all kinds of cables built to length spec v.35 rs232 rs449 VGA Mature Not a tool, per se, but a recommended site for getting built-to-length cables of various sorts and colors. add new comment | 804 reads
inkscapeSubmitted by doug on Mon, 2007-12-10 09:41.Availability | Networking | Productivity
a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, that strives to be SVG Compliant, open source and extensible Active
because it is SVG compatible, you can display it in firefox which makes it very cross-platform. It doesn't have nearly as many stencils as Visio, though. add new comment | 510 reads
OSSIMSubmitted by doug on Thu, 2007-10-18 19:11.Availability
Open Source Security Information Management Active
The OSSIM Sensors integrate powerful open source technology for: Attack Detection using Snort IDS for real time detection add new comment | 555 reads
keepalivedSubmitted by doug on Thu, 2007-10-18 18:55.Networking
A project to add a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project Mature
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VrrpdSubmitted by doug on Thu, 2007-10-18 17:58.Networking
VRRPd is an implementation of Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol as specified in rfc2338 Stable VRRP is the virtual router redundancy protocol. VRRP is an IETF WG product described at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/vrrp-charter.html. Excerpt:
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Heartbeat / Linux-HASubmitted by dlang on Tue, 2007-10-16 22:51.Availability | Unix
Failover and availability clustering for *nix systems Mature Linux-HA aka Heartbeat is a modular package to control high-availability clustering. In spite of it's name it is not limited to Linux (although that is the primary platform), It has an automake based compile and has been used on *BSD, Solaris, and to some extent on AIX as well. It can hearbeat in multiple ways (UDP broadcast, multicast, and unicast as well as over serial ports, although the serial port heartbeat has been accidently broken in some versions), and over multiple channels (up to 32 as of the time of writing) It can support sub-second failover It delays heartbeat checking on initial boot to allow switches time to get through their spanning tree detection timeouts. add new comment | 9483 reads
DIBSSubmitted by doug on Mon, 2007-10-08 12:47.Backup
Distributed Internet Backup System - backups should be cheap Active
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