Have you ever wanted to surf the web from your laptop using the internet connection on your cell phone without connecting any wires, and with no hassle goofing around with software? Well guess what, for you happiness is close at hand! Today Sagem Orga made a press release that raised my eyebrows. They have a [...]

Imagine that you have a cluster with two machines side by side in an active/standby configuration. Let’s say you have your data replicated, and the systems are basically identical except for the IP address and hostname. You can use heartbeat to share an IP address such that if the primary fails, the secondary takes over. [...]

Like most of you, I have a phone line at my house. I don’t use it a lot because I have my cell phone… the normal story. So, on my home phone I have exactly zero special calling features. I have no caller-id, no voicemail, nothing. Even though I’m on the National Do-not-call list, I [...]