Andrés Rodríguez

I was wondering how many people out there use loadbalancers based in Heartbeat/ldirectord/ipvsadm? If you do in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, have you already considered an update path into Pacemaker based clusters? If you have, would you go for Pacemaker/OpenAIS (The New Technology) or stay with Pacemaker/Heartbeat (Will now be supported by Linbit for an undetermined [...]

The last week of December 2009 I had a surgery. This surgery was supposed to keep me away from computers for just a week or two at most. However, after the second week of the recovery process, doctors discovered a serious complication that was the result of the first surgery. So, I had a second [...]

The past two days I’ve not been around because I just had a surgery on Saturday Morning. The pain (that I still have) has kept me out of my computer, since I’ve been lying in bed. This is my first attempt to use my computer after the surgery, however I’m still in pain (and dizzy) [...]

I finally finished my first semester as a Graduate Student!! After the UDS I just had 3 more weeks to go of school… and man!! they have been quite busy weeks!! Now it is time to chill for a couple days and to restart doing some MOTU work. Anyways… I’m really glad my first semester is over… [...]

About two months ago I made a post where I mentioned how I introduced some friends into Ubuntu… They showed their desired to see what it was and how it worked. The post is here: The Need to Ubuntize people. Anyways, the thing is that before going to the UDS I showed one of my friends [...]

Today we had the Ubuntu Cluster Stack session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas, Texas. We made a few decisions regarding the future goals of the ubuntu-ha team summarized as follows: Failover Cluster Stack: We decided to continue to fully support redhat-cluster-suite, as well as openais /corosync and pacemaker. However, we will also track Heartbeat [...]

I finally arrived to Dallas few hours ago!!!  Right now I’m hanging out at the Hotel’s lounge with a whole bunch of other Ubuntu Developers!! I’ve already met some however I might not have identified all of them… but soon when everybody is with their name tags. Anyways… this is so exiting… I really look forward [...]

Yesterday I was working on my old laptop and I had to move location, so I disconnected my laptop from the power outlet in the wall. After doing this, my screen started flickering and showing strange lines, from time to time different colors and stuff like that. This is the second time that happens to [...]

So… I gave it a try… and I liked it. The last few weeks I was programming (after a long time) for a project of one of my classes. Since I wanted to learn python for a while, I decided to do my project in Python. At first, it was just going to be a [...]