What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans? A few weeks ago I saw a post on social media -- someone asking whether it was time to create a programming language designed for consumption by code assistants. Not for humans to write, but for AI to generate and humans to verify. I couldn't stop thinking …

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Back in 2021, I had an idea. What if there was a better way to share and discover Nomad job files and Nomad Packs? What if we could make it as easy to find a production-ready Nomad configuration as it is to find a Docker image? We needed a helm like repository for Nomad That idea became Ramble -- Github Repo. Today, …

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I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill. they were either just to difficult or completely wrong. i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/ What a gem. if you can install ruby on …

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I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers. They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy …

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This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off In this part of the process we will create the disks and setup the DRBD devices First we need to connect to the Virtual Machines from a terminal session as it makes life much easier and quicker when you connect …

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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM's with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database store. I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 …

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