Archive for December, 2008

One often needs to use PASSIVE / PASV mode for FTP transfers to work successfully on some FTP servers, especially if you are on a network which is being NAT’ed by an ADSL / DSL / wireless router. Microsoft’s command line FTP program (ftp.exe) doesn’t have the PASV / PASSIVE command, so how do you [...]

Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 09:13 0 comments

I found this cool game on clusters: http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rackanode/ you basically need to build a cluster, and then process some data with it. You start off with some cash and need to choose your first server. Once the server is in place you’ll get some data to process and some more cash upon successful processing the [...]

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 23:07 1 comment

So, I want to start looking into setting up a XEN cluster on Linux, which will provide high-uptime for Linux & Widows guest operating systems. This will be my first attempt to this, so I’m treading in deep waters, but it should be fun setting up. It’s rather late right now, so I’m not getting [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 22:30 2 comments