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I tried for many years with a storage server and a compute server. I never got it working good. The problem was when i was doing an update to the storage server or wanted to replace some part of it. I had first to stop all services that used the storage and then fix the storage server. If the replacement of some part did not go well the services could be down for a long time. At worst it could happen that i had to give up for the day and continue the next day. The services could be down for many hours.

Now it is not so important that every server is reliable. I can move workloads to another server in the cluster and start working on the server that has some error.

It is now much less downtime when i am doing updates. I can move a VM to another server when restarting a node. The VM only stops for a few seconds when doing a live migration.

I have one Windows fail-over cluster and one Linux Ceph cluster. I now know that having reliable storage is very important. Without that nothing is going to be reliable.

I am cheating on the fencing. For me the fail over thing is not so important. It is enough for me to be able to move workloads manually. The services i run on the Linux cluster dont have any fail over. I tried to use corosync and pacemaker, but it was difficult and i dont need it.

Sooner or later i believe i have to move everything the Linux cluster. Looks like Microsoft have stopped development on Hyper-V and Windows server. They want everybody to switch to Azure. They now have something called Azure Stack HCI. It is really nice of Microsoft to make it possible to install and run Windows server datacenter without activation. It is illegal but i dont think they care for my homelab.

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Nick Leeson is an interesting guy. In the videos they show some parts of an interview Nick did. Nick did not look worried about the money he wasted. He thought it was the managers fault the bank failed because they were idiots to not discover what he did.

Was Nick Leeson was doing high risk trades and hiding his losses. Managed the office in Singapore. He told the office in London that he was making profits. Nick was not a good trader. He had to hide his losses in a 88888 account.

It is strange that they did not discover what he was doing. They were close many times. There were people traveling to the office in Singapore to check what he was doing. Even auditors did not discover his 88888 account.

After some losses Nick had to get money from London. They sent him money nearly everyday. They believed it was short term loans to customers. The London office started to wonder why he needed so much money and who were the customers.

When asked after the collapse most people at the London office said that it was not their job to check where the money went. Some said only the Singapore office had the figures so it was impossible the check anything. Some said they believe everything was OK after talking to Nick.

Nicks losses was not so bad from 1993 to the end of 1994. The bank could have survived that. In the beginning of 1995 it started to go downhill fast. Nick had made a mistake and not hidden a bad trade. There was a lot of talking about that at Barings in the beginning 1995. Nick convinced many that it was only an error and it will be corrected. Some company wanted £150M from Barings. Nick used papers and scissors to make a document that looked like he got the money back. In the upper corner there was a text that said “Nick and Lisa”. He sent it from his home to the office. Those who looked at it thought it was real.

In the beginning of 1995 Nick started to do big high risk trades. On 17 January there was a earthquake in Kobe, Japan. Nicks trades started to go bad. He tried to buy lots of futures to get the market to go up. The market continued to go do down. On the 23 of February Nick left the office and never came back. There were rumours about Barings having big positions on OSE. The managers in London were not worried there should be positions on SIMEX to compensate.

Best document to read.

Reddit says it’s banning more people than ever in big transparency push

They show up everywhere. What is wrong with them. The revenge porn guys look like loser.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/03/31/1739246/reddit-says-its-banning-more-people-than-ever-in-big-transparency-push

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol every day does not – as once thought – protect against death from heart disease, nor does it contribute to a longer life, according to a sweeping new analysis of alcohol research.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/mar/31/no-moderate-drinking-isnt-good-for-your-health/

I always doubted the reports about that little alcohol could be good. To me it looked like that people wished too much that it was not dangerous and wanted hear that it could even be good. Research should not depend on what people want to believe, but it looks like it sometimes happens.

Few wants to talk about meat production and climate change. There are coming gases out from cows both in the front and the rear.

There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals. But, thanks to the power of the two industries, both aims are officially unmentionable.

Guardian

Those industries are powerful because people really want their products. People want to stop climate change, but only if they can keep their cars and eating meat. The cars can be fixed, but i doubt that meat production can cut down on greenhouse gasses. Meat eating is going up because more people in the world can afford it.

Not even Norway will stop getting fossil fuels up from the ground.

Livestock is mentioned in only three agreements, and the only action each of them proposes is “management”. Nowhere is there a word about reduction.

Guardian

No politician wants to tell people to cut down on meat eating. People in shithole countries wants to live like people in the western world.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/09/leaders-cop27-livestock-farming-carbon-budget-governments

After peaking in 2014 at 10 percent, the trend has been decreasing, especially since China stopped accepting the West’s plastic waste in 2018.

Did they burn it or just put it somewhere. 🤔

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/10/24/213208/plastic-recycling-a-failed-concept-study-says

I wanted to use Linux containers. I read about Docker and Podman. I believed that Podman was better. I few days ago i discovered lxd. It is more like virtual machines. I like that. Lxd have a cluster function. All nodes remember the settings. I can add network interfaces and volumes after the container is created. It does not loose state.