The Large Hadron Collider will be starting up soon (August). It should produce some interesting data and help us understand the world we live in. Stuff like why electrons have mass (Higgs boson) and help explain dark matter. Now check out the LHC Rap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Tags: Science
I have been watching Kevin Smith’s Erlang videos lately and have come up with a couple tips to supplement a couple topics I have seen. First, using the Erlang ping function with a machine that is behind a firewall. I have found that there are ports that need to be opened to make sure your [...]
I have gotten a few comments and etc regarding whether or not I was able to get Hadoop to talk to Ganglia. Sadly I wasn’t able to get this to work properly either but I did contact the Hadoop mailing list (this thread) and got the following information. There is actually a bug. The link [...]
Tags: Clustering · Dev · Linux
As some of you may have heard there is a new DNS cache poisoning ’sploit in the wild (CVE). Currently there are two exploits available, one for a domain and the other for a hostname. Check out the info on each here and here. The basic idea is described in the files.
This exploit targets [...]
I have been doing some work with Erlang lately and wanted to do figure out how to do XML parsing. After a bit of looking I found Erlsom, which is a XML parsing library for Erlang. It has a few modes including a SAX parser and a “simple sort of DOM parser”. I have had [...]
Tags: Dev